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Once again Jobs had produced an iconic new product, this one a harbinger of a new millennium.
喬布斯又一次推出了標志性的新產品，也是一個新紀元的開端。
It fulfilled the promise of "Think Different."
它履行了“非同凡想”的承諾。
Instead of beige boxes and monitors with a welter of cables and a bulky setup manual,
計算機不再是米色的方形主機和顯示器、纏得一團糟的電線和厚厚的安裝手冊；
here was a friendly and spunky appliance, smooth to the touch and as pleasing to the eye as a robin's egg.
在你面前的是一部友好的、生氣蓬勃的裝置，手感順滑、賞心悅目，就像一只知更鳥的蛋。
You could grab its cute little handle and lift it out of the elegant white box and plug it right into a wall socket.
你可以拎著那可愛的小提手把它從典雅的白色盒子里面提出來，然后插上電源。
People who had been afraid of computers now wanted one,
那些以前害怕碰計算機的人現在也想擁有一臺，
and they wanted to put it in a room where others could admire and perhaps covet it.
而且他們還想把它擺在房間中最顯眼的地方，好讓人羨慕甚至是嫉妒。
"A piece of hardware that blends sci-fi shimmer with the kitsch whimsy of a cocktail umbrella," Steven Levy wrote in Newsweek,
“這是一臺結合了科幻之光和奇思妙想的機器，”《新聞周刊》的記者史蒂文·列維這樣寫道，
"it is not only the coolest- looking computer introduced in years,
“這不僅是近幾年來推出的外觀最酷的計算機，
but a chest-thumping statement that Silicon Valley's original dream company is no longer somnambulant."
同時也是一個強有力的宣告：硅谷這家最初的‘夢想’公司終于不再‘夢游’了！”
Forbes called it "an industry-altering success," and John Sculley later came out of exile to gush,
《福布斯》將iMac稱為“一個產業的華麗轉身”。已被驅逐的約翰·斯卡利也表示：
"He has implemented the same simple strategy that made Apple so successful 15 years ago:
“他采用的是和15年前一樣的簡單策略，這個策略讓當時的蘋果公司大獲成功：
make hit products and promote them with terrific marketing."
制造大受歡迎的產品，發動無比強大的營銷攻勢。”
