iMac
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“The first was a colleague's 2010 iMac which I stole from my employer when they upgraded in 2015.”
Roly Allen Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“At home I switch between my laptop and an iMac with a million-inch screen that was supposed to fix my posture/body, but it hasn’t.”
Elissa Bassist Interview, Editor, writer · via Uses This 
“My primary work computer is an iMac.”
Thursday Bram Interview, Writer · via Uses This 
“An M1 iMac (24 inch, 16GB memory, 1TB storage).”
Savannah DiMarco Interview, Business owner, podcaster · via Uses This 
“I currently use an iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015.”
Victor Hanson-Smith Interview, Computational biologist · via Uses This 
“I just got a brand new M1 iMac, which I love very much because it's purple.”
Jillian Meehan Interview, Project manager (Lickability) · via Uses This 
“I also bought a 27" 2019 iMac last year for 3D animation, but it broke when I stuffed it into a suitcase that I put it on a plane.”
Taylor Dow Interview, Cartoonist, game designer, teacher · via Uses This 
“My primary machine is a Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019 iMac with a 3.7 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, 16 GB RAM, a 500 GB SSD, and a Radeon Pro 580X.”
Eugene Marshall Interview, Game designer, writer · via Uses This 
“As for my computer, I've been using my 27" iMac since 2011 and refuse to let it die on me.”
Sean Anderson Interview, Illustrator, character designer · via Uses This 
“I'll usually be using some collection of reference photos found on the internet or taken myself for animals or environments, which I'll have up on my desktop computer (iMac).”
Joshua Barkman Interview, Cartoonist (False Knees) · via Uses This 
“Or even when Apple's first iMac didn't have a floppy disk drive!”
Frank Rausch Interview, UI designer, app developer, typographer · via Uses This 
“Prior to this upgrade last month, we were using the 2008 iMac I got as a college graduation present.”
Tanner McSwain Interview, Owner, Uncharted Books · via Uses This 
“I guess it goes without saying I have an iMac, and lots of random hard drives.”
Estelle Caswell Interview, Animator, video journalist (Vox) · via Uses This 
“At home I have a 21.5" 2017 iMac with a second monitor, which acts as home base for all my media, and for more memory-intensive projects like music and video.”
Scott Jon Siegel Interview, Game designer · via Uses This 
“I do all of my video and editing work on my iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2017).”
Kailee McGee Interview, Artist, writer, filmmaker · via Uses This 
“I have a mid 2011 iMac 3.4Ghz Core i7 with 32GB of memory in my writing office with a solid state drive holding the system and apps.”
Louis Rossetto Interview, Writer, entrepreneur (Wired, TCHO) · via Uses This 
“(I also pretty regularly commandeer my husband's 27" iMac for big editing projects, video meetings, and late-night deadline dashes -- nothing beats working at a gigantic monitor.)”
Helen Rosner Interview, Food correspondent (The New Yorker) · via Uses This 
“In the office I have a 21" iMac, which could probably do with being upgraded.”
Ashley Baxter Interview, Founder, With Jack · via Uses This 
“My main computer is a Late 2013 iMac.”
John Karel Interview, Freelance computer animator · via Uses This 
“My computer is an iMac with a 21.5 inch display.”
Claire Hopkins Interview, Botanist, educator (Brilliant Botany) · via Uses This 
“My main machine right now is a Retina 5K, 27-inch, late 2015 iMac.”
Chuck Anderson Interview, Art guy (NoPattern) · via Uses This 
“My work computer is a 22" Mac desktop, a couple years old.”
Blue Delliquanti Interview, Cartoonist (O Human Star) · via Uses This 
“For music and podcast production, I mainly use an iMac in the studio or my MacBook at home.”
Chris Remo Interview, Game designer, composer (Campo Santo), podcaster (Idle Thumbs) · via Uses This 
“I edit on my 27" iMac.”
Vivian The Dog Interview, 6-foot tall dachshund · via Uses This 
“My main digital workstation is a table I built myself with an old cintiq tablet built into the surface run by an iMac.”
Viviane Schwarz Interview, Writer, illustrator, creator · via Uses This 
“I also maintain a home office where I use a 27" Retina iMac (which I just bought recently, upgrading from a 2009 iMac), with 32 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD.”
Waldo Jaquith Interview, Designer, developer, director (U.S. Open Data) · via Uses This 
“I use a Retina 4GHz i7 iMac with pretty much everything except the hard drives maxed out.”
Kirby Ferguson Interview, Filmmaker, writer, speaker (Everything is a Remix) · via Uses This 
“iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014).”
Kelly Sue DeConnick Interview, Comic book, TV writer · via Uses This 
“I do most of my work on a 21" iMac.”
Esra'a Al Shafei Interview, Civil rights advocate, founder (Majal) · via Uses This 
“I work on an iMac (27" model) with the quad core and Fusion Drive.”
Lindsay Small-Butera Interview, Animator, designer, director (Baman Piderman) · via Uses This 
“Right now a 27" iMac that's a few years old but kicking along fine.”
Josh Millard Interview, Musician, developer (MetaFilter) · via Uses This 
“One of those big iMacs, one of those little iPads, one of those pocket-fondler iPhones, a giant Korg Music Workstation, a hollow-body cherry red Ibanez guitar with a weapons-grade tremolo arm.”
Mel Croucher Interview, Pioneering video game developer · via Uses This 
“and a third screen for good measure, which is one of our very creaky iMacs, though I only use that for monitoring our own site.”
Jemima Kiss Interview, Head of technology (Guardian) · via Uses This 
“Now I have a nice iMac, but I still miss that machine.”
Nathalie Lawhead Interview, Indie game developer (Tetrageddon) · via Uses This 
“I use a high-specced iMac for most of my heavy-duty video editing, with 24TB of external storage split between work and home for backing up everything I've ever made in more than one location.”
Becky Stern Interview, Director of wearable electronics (Adafruit) · via Uses This 
“At home, I also have a 27" iMac I use for photos and that I used for doing the print layout of the book.”
Bob Nystrom Interview, Game and language developer · via Uses This 
“I record audio on a newer iMac and some large ThunderBolt drives.”
Liam Lynch Interview, Writer, director, musician (Lynchland) · via Uses This 
“I've actually never owned a non-Apple computer - the first one I bought for myself, for college, was one of the candy-colored iMacs.”
Laura Olin Interview, Digital strategist · via Uses This 
“I also have an iMac with 4GB RAM, but you can tell the processor is slower on that machine.”
Lucie Blush Interview, Feminist porn filmmaker, actress · via Uses This 
“When I'm working at home, I use a hand-me-down 27" iMac.”
Kathleen De Vere Interview, Actor, writer, video editor, illustrator (LoadingReadyRun) · via Uses This 
“I do a lot of pair programming, so I'm constantly jumping between different people's computers and iMacs set up as pairing machines.”
Madelin Woods Interview, Developer (Square), artist · via Uses This 
“I work on my iMac whenever possible and avoid my 4 year old laptop at all costs.”
Annica Lydenberg Interview, Designer (Dirty Bandits) · via Uses This 
“I draw roughs of my comic pages on printer paper, scan them into my gigantic 27" iMac, blow them up, and then print them off as bluelines onto smooth 11" x 14" Bristol board using my large-format HP Officejet printer.”
Hope Larson Interview, Cartoonist, writer, director · via Uses This 
“My main tool is a 2009 iMac, with whatever the highest specs were available at that time.”
David Sirlin Interview, Game designer (Sirlin Games) · via Uses This 
“My beloved computer is now almost 4 years old.”
Michael Paul Smith Interview, Photographer, model maker (Elgin Park) · via Uses This 
“My main writing computer is an iMac, though I also use a laptop for when I'm writing from outside of my dad's house, which isn't sad because I'm 16.”
Henry Monteiro Interview, Writer (Henry's Music Blog) · via Uses This 
“My main computer is a late-2009 27-inch iMac with a 2.66 GHz Core i5 CPU, 12 GB of RAM, and a 1TB hard drive.”
Colin Dismuke Interview, Ocean engineer (Delmar Systems) · via Uses This 
“I have my first iMac and I'm not thrilled, but we needed a decent build machine for the Mac.”
Judy Tyrer Interview, Game developer (Ever, Jane) · via Uses This 
“My computer is a 21.5" iMac, which lives in my studio on a cramped, paint-covered desk.”
Danielle Baskin Interview, Art director, bike helmet painter (Inkwell Helmets) · via Uses This 
“I just bought a new iMac with which to edit the rough-cut of my fillum and it's been working like a dream.”
Kiah Roache-Turner Interview, Feature film-maker (Wyrmwood) · via Uses This 
“I also own an old iMac.”
Daniel Lemire Interview, Computer researcher, professor · via Uses This 
“Editing-wise, I just use an 27 inch iMac i7 with 16 gigs of RAM.”
Tom Phillipson Interview, Video editor, VJ, musician · via Uses This 
“My primary setup is a 27" iMac (one of the fancy new thin ones).”
Cory Schmitz Interview, Graphic designer, illustrator · via Uses This 
“I spend a lot of time staring at the screen and saying "Wow, that's nice." I also have an iMac at work that's starting to get a little long in the tooth which is probably getting put out to pasture as soon as Apple revs their displays, and I get something to hook up to the MBP.”
Mike Monteiro Interview, Designer, director (Mule) · via Uses This 
“My workspace in my studio is a long desk with a centrepiece 27" iMac and companion Samsung LCD flatscreen monitor.”
Greg J. Smith Interview, Editor (HOLO), designer · via Uses This 
“My main machine is a 27" iMac, which I renew every two years at the maximum available spec.”
Matt Gemmell Interview, Mac and iOS developer · via Uses This 
“My main development machine is a 27" iMac with a 21" secondary display.”
Nick Bradbury Interview, Software developer (FeedDemon, Glassboard) · via Uses This 
“I have an iMac for picture editing.”
Joe Armstrong Interview, Software developer (Erlang) · via Uses This 
“While at the office, I use a 2010 27" iMac.”
Vaughn Royko Interview, Web designer, indie game developer · via Uses This 
“At home I have an iMac with a Fusion drive that I like.”
Fred Benenson Interview, Data researcher (Kickstarter) · via Uses This 
“Once I come upstairs to my office, the hardware there is pretty straight forward; I connect to the world and broadcast information on what I am doing with an iMac (connected through the NTT fibre-optic network).”
David Bull Interview, Woodblock printmaker · via Uses This 
“I use an iMac which I love and I have two screens so I can compose to picture.”
Jessica Curry Interview, Music composer, co-director (thechineseroom) · via Uses This 
“At the office I have a 24" iMac, with a 2.93GHz C2D and 4GB RAM.”
Justin Frankel Interview, Software developer (Winamp, REAPER) · via Uses This 
“I've got a 2007 iMac that I mostly use to watch movies, although it's also acted as a server at times.”
John Myles White Interview, Statistics hacker, PhD student · via Uses This 
“A 2009 24-inch iMac: 3GB memory, 1.5TB hard-drive and a nVidia GT130 graphics card.”
Bhautik Joshi Interview, Research engineer (ILM) · via Uses This 
“At home I have a 2009 24" iMac 3GHz Intel Core 2 Duo all in one desktop computer with a wireless mouse and keyboard.”
Mike Kruzeniski Interview, Former principal design lead (Windows Phone) · via Uses This 
“I also have an old iMac from around 2008 that I use as a server and "home base" of sorts.”
Nick Disabato Interview, Designer, tree killer (Distance, Cadence & Slang) · via Uses This 
“At work, my machine is a early 2011, top-of-the-line 27" iMac, probably the fastest computer I've ever worked on and makes for a great development machine.”
Robert Böhnke Interview, Software developer (SoundCloud) · via Uses This 
“My home is a 600 square foot rectangle armed with an iMac, a handful of X-10 controllers, some temperature sensors, a camera, and a private IRC server.”
Amber Case Interview, Cyborg anthropologist, UX designer · via Uses This 
“We just got new iMacs for our team -- 3.4 GHz with 16 GB of RAM.”
Mike Krieger Interview, Co-founder of Instagram · via Uses This 
“I use a 20" iMac (11,2) for Skype, movie-watching, and audio-video editing.”
Douglas Rushkoff Interview, Media theorist, writer · via Uses This 
“I also have an 24" iMac, which I occasionally use to process photos, wrangle audio etc, though since being relegated to the spare room when we moved house last year, I've barely used it.”
Meg Pickard Interview, Creative geek (The Guardian) · via Uses This 
“Perched on top of that is my principal work machine, a 27" iMac, which I simply adore.”
David Sleight Interview, Creative director, web designer, tinkerer · via Uses This 
“Right now I mostly use a 27" iMac, circa 2009.”
Bob Sabiston Interview, Developer, owner of Flat Black Films · via Uses This 
“My main machine is a 2010 iMac 27" with an i5 and 8GB of RAM.”
Tony Warriner Interview, Game developer, co-founder (Revolution) · via Uses This 
“On my desk I have a 27" Core i7 iMac with 8 GB of ram.”
Mark Jardine Interview, Designer (Tapbots) · via Uses This 
“I got an iMac a couple weeks ago, finally jettisoning my old G5 which mostly just sighed sadly whenever I tried to open a file.”
Joshua Allen Interview, Funny writer dude · via Uses This 
“At home I have a 27" iMac 2.93 GHz i7 with 8GB of RAM, 200GB SSD and 1TB second drive which I use for archives of photos and project files.”
Wilson Miner Interview, Web designer (Rdio) · via Uses This 
“My secondary computer is a late-2009 iMac.”
MG Siegler Interview, Tech reporter (TechCrunch) · via Uses This 
“My main work machine is a new 27" iMac with 2.8GHz Quad-Core / SSD drive, plus a second Dell 27" display.”
Todd Dominey Interview, Hat-wearer (SlideShowPro) · via Uses This 
“I also use an iMac 1.83 Ghz Core Duo with 1.5 GB of memory for general purpose testing (it can be booted in Windows XP, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard.) This machine sees a lot of software that's not quite ready for prime time.”
Craig Hockenberry Interview, Programmer (The Iconfactory) · via Uses This 
“A Mac Mini for my wife and an iMac for my youngest daughter (the older one is out of college).”
James Gosling Interview, Software engineer (Java) · via Uses This 
“My office computer is a 2009-vintage 24" iMac - a 3GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive.”
Kieran Healy Interview, Sociologist · via Uses This 
“2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, 24".”
Neven Mrgan Interview, Designer (Panic Inc.) · via Uses This 
“And the desktop computer is the oldest of them all, a 24" iMac from a few years ago.”
Derek Powazek Interview, Designer, writer, small dog appreciator · via Uses This 
“When I want to do an official Mac build of a game, I turn on my wife's old first-generation iMac (tray-loading), to ensure that the build will work on PPC machines too (I don't want to make an Intel-only build).”
Jason Rohrer Interview, Game developer (Passage) · via Uses This 
“The first computer is a 24" aluminum iMac that has been taken apart twice by a mildly sweaty, mouth-breathing man from El Paso, Texas.”
Jona Bechtolt Interview, Half of the band YACHT · via Uses This
