
They were not ergonomic at all, they weren't even optical, they had a spinning ball that would often get dirty and they were a pain in the butt to use. The only bad thing I have to say about the original iMacs is the horrible hockey puck mouse that came with them. It's no surprise that they were a huge hit. The original iMacs were good machines at a reasonable price that served their purpose. I also liked AQUA on Mac OS X and those designs were exactly right for their time. Apple's designs were fresh and vibrant, everybody else's were rotten, boring and decaying. Everybody else had these god awful plastic beige machines. The colorful and see through plastic was something completely new and different that nobody else was doing. I was loving Apple's designs around that time. I bought a bondi blue iMac back then and I still have it, and as a matter of fact it still looks great still and runs good, though I don't exactly use it or turn it on too often these days of course.
