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To: spitsong who wrote (31819)	1/15/2002 10:27:57 PM
From: NAG1	Respond to of 213182

P.T., I agree with a lot of what you said. It is the machine I have been waiting for. And the price is better than what I was expecting to get it for. I went to the apple store this weekend and got a good look at the machine and unless you have seen it in person, you don't get a good idea about how this thing really looks and works. And the adjustments that you can make to the screen makes the machine all the more desirable. I started playing Cro Mag on the machine and everything else melts away except for the screen. So I think the machine is great and will be getting one in the next couple of weeks when the local apple retailer gets them in stock. But it is not only about the hardware that the machine comes with. By reports, apple's digital suite of products blows away anything that they have on the windows side. And I think the overall price is more than competitive. With the dvd player being one of the seasons hot consumer electronic products, I have to believe that the ability to make your own movies for these players has got to be close behind as something the consumer is going to want to be able to do and apple seems to have the best solution right now for the consumer. I think Apple missed the cdrw craze of a couple of years ago and paid the price for it and didn't sell as many machines as it could have. I think they have gotten in on the dvd craze at just the right time with the right machine at the right price. If they can get the ramp up on production correct(one big problem that apple usually has), I think that they can sell 400,000 machines this quarter and I think they will sell 2 million for the calender year 2002. JMO FWIW. We should know a lot more tomorrow when apple reports and fred anderson gives guidance on the present quarter and hopefully, for the rest of the year. Good luck everybody. Neal

To: spitsong who wrote (31819)	1/16/2002 8:01:38 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 213182

that footprint issue continues to be valid whether you believe so or not It certainly matters to me. I refuse to buy either a CRT or a tower and I haven't owned one of either in several years. I love the iMac because it finally frees me from the constraints of having to always and forever use a laptop.

To: spitsong who wrote (31819)	1/16/2002 10:07:20 AM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Allen caught the first one, that the page I linked compared an LCD iMac with CRT PCs and still matched them on balance for the rest of its features. See my reply to Allen. I have no problem getting a similar-to-iMac configuration with an LCD for $1800 (DVD-RAM/DVD-R). In fact this should not come as a surprise to any Apple lover. Apple has never competed on a price basis, but on quality of the OS. As one would expect one can get comparable machines without much effort and I bet substantially cheaper if we applied ourselves to it. By the way, this new iMac takes up considerably less space than just a 17" CRT monitor. And of course it takes up no space at all under the desk. So that footprint issue continues to be valid whether you believe so or not. We disagree on that one. I hear users wishing for many things including a computer that looks nice and one that takes less space on the desktop. Not once have I heard somebody complaining about space "occupied" by towers under the desk. That was just a strawman by the skewed website trying to prop-up a comparison that they themselves noticed the iMac was losing.