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To: Scott Crumley who wrote (25886)	8/11/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: Louis Gray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213187

Scott: The way I always tell people is the following: On a Macintosh, you can run Macintosh, Windows and Linux. On a PC, you can sometimes run Windows. Would you believe I have my iMac at home "Triple-booting" Mac, Win and LinuxPPC? Works harder, crashes less, or not at all. My iMac has not crashed on me in months, that I can remember.

To: Scott Crumley who wrote (25886)	8/11/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: WebDrone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213187

Scott- how about this approach: iMac- you can figure out how to use it. Emachine- if you can't figure out how to use it, it's a $400 doorstop (with no resale value) plus $21/month. Who is going to hook up what kind of printer? USB or parallel? Got drivers for that? You want a zip? What kind? USB, parallel (oops?) or SCSI. Who is going to hook it up for you? You sure you don't want the Imac? Because it's really a $800 vs. $1100 choice. With the big question of "do you want to pay for ISP SERVICES 3 years in advance?" Well? I like to pay by the month, so if services disapoint, AMF! Emachine- you sure you want to be using 56k phone hookup 3 years from now? What if cable or adsl gets as cheap as 56K? Will it be Win2000 compatible? What is Win2000? Will you need it? I agree that a rebate deal from an ISP would be a good thing for AAPL. I just wish I knew what caused such a nice runup here. Web

To: Scott Crumley who wrote (25886)	8/11/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213187

<<if the eOne doesn't turn out to be a component frying, Windows locking piece of crap>> Even if it was, people would still buy it. My brother bought an AMD PC for $500. The run o'the mill 350 Mhz variety bundled with Win98. He complains about it a lot, but he would still rather use that than the Centris he bought from a friend. Despite the data he has lost when the drive did wierd things, he would still rather have the PC. He even spurned my offers to reinstall a more stable version of Win95 opting for the just past beta version of Win98. -Bill_H