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The imac g5 that followed was such a boring and ugly design compared to the G4. There was no mistaking that LOL. I don't think anyone liked it.

It looked good on the inside.

The really should have kept that design around longer, iterated on it.

Maybe it just wasn't possible to put a G5 on that small of a logic board, but it's still an absolutely stunning computer. I have one sitting on my kitchen counter right now!

? he clearly explains that they couldn't place the CD/DVD drive vertically without reducing the read/write speeds by a lot

Anecdotally, the CD/DVD drive in the G5 was super unreliable.