The iMac event is too big to be ignored so the stock will gradually
reflect its real value. When the time (August 15th) is getting
closer, the stock gets hotter.
Robert Cringley, author of "Accidental Empires" and a columnist at the PBS web site, is reporting that as of last week, Apple has only made 5,000 iMacs, and worse, they have an "out of box" failure rate of 11%. While I find him to be a bit of a blowhard sometimes, he makes some valid points about the iMac:
pbs.org
This page just points to his current column, so if it no longer pertains to the relevant article when you try it, go to the index for his columns and look for issue 1.71 dated August 7, 1998 that begins "I think, therefore iMac..."
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