The colorful iMac and iBook were a fun for the times reaction to the banality of mostly beige and sometimes black boxes most 90's computer users were used to seeing.

You have to kind of look at and consider them in the context of their time.

I do kind of miss fun colored devices. We're in a new era of beige with all this brushed aluminum and glass. I really would love some funky colored electronics again.

Well, I felt that the original theme was far more attractive than trying to imitate grey brushed metal. However, it also seemed gratuitously hostile to the color blind. I never understood why the window controls eliminated the symbols that the original Mac OS and Windows used.

The iBook did look a lot like a toilet lid but some colors looked great on the G3 iMac. I used to own a graphite one and I think it still looks cool.

the eMac looks amazing today