RE: iMac
I posted last night about this new iMac NetComputer, and its lack of floppy drive. If you notice, it also lacks SCSI, serial, and Parallel ports as well. This rules out any current removable storage. It only has a CD-Rom for media input.
It has 2 USB and 1 infra-red ports (as well as ethernet). I know of no desktop devices that currently use USB interfaces. One can only assume that Apple is going to come out with a USB printer for the iMac at the same time when iMac is released. The infra-red port could be used to link with Newtons or the newer Palm Pilots.
It seems to me that this computer, besides home computing, is geared towards school classrooms, small offices, or any other places where ethernet is the standard method of sharing files. It's like that in a lot of studios I frequent. Almost all in-house files are zapped via ethernet.
Sony, in an article I posted a few weeks back, stated they are working on multiple interaces for 200MB HiFi, USB included. The new iMac rolls out in August, the HiFi "in late Summer." Hmmm.....
A floppy-compatible 200MB external USB Sony/Teac HiFi drive would make perfect sense connected to a brand new iMac.
The new iMac is the first "NetPC" on the market, and it could sell really well in part to its network-ready features, and to its ultra-mod see-thru blue plastic casing.
HiFi and iMac--whatta team. |
