I really like telling people about how the "Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh", released in 1997 to dismal sales and an almost instant end, is a spiritual predecessor to the modern iMac, especially the newest M1 model. you can tell just by looking at them.
also fun fact: jerry owned one of these in the later seasons of Seinfeld. according to what limited info i've found online, the computers previously seen in his apartment were a Macintosh SE and a Powerbook Duo in a docking station, another weird, ahead-of-its-time desktop setup.
i'd love to know who upsold him from his laptop/desktop hybrid to a $7500 Slab (and yes, its price was a major reason it failed). maybe he just really needed a CD drive and a good sound system? it had that going for it, at least
i hinted at it, but as @plumpan said in the comments, the 20th anni Mac also came with a subwoofer. not only that; it was also a really good quality subwoofer, made by Bose, to accompany the built-in speakers housed in the main computer chassis. not only that; the power supply and subwoofer were one and the same component; power ran into the subwoofer, then through another proprietary cable into the Mac itself. allowing it to stay true, in its strange, roundabout way, to the "only one cable" ethos that the Mac through iMac tended to stick with.
it reminds me a lot of the special, Jony Ive/Harman Kardon designed "iSub" and "Soundsticks" (yes they're really called that. i know.) released by Apple in 1999, to match their new, now beloved phase of embracing transparent plastic product design. it went beautifully with the iMac G4 Cube released a year later, another example of Apple selling a computer sound system which aesthetically parallels one of their desktops...though the G4 Cube, unfortunately, was also a commercial flop...like a song, it rhymes.
