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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (48360)	2/20/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Rocky's Shopping Day As promised, I have just come back from my little shopping trip here in Manhattan. My first stop upon leaving the subway was a big store on the corner of 40th Street and 6th Avenue called Computer City. It was moderately busy. Upon entering the store,I was greeted by a small stand covered on one side by Zip Plus for $199 and Zip PP for $129. On the back of the stand were more SCSI Zips and 2 internal SyJets in the older Orange and Black Halloween packaging. I asked a salesman, and all of the External Syjets were sold out. A wall display in the storage section was covered by Superdisc internals for $149, Hi-Val Supers for $129, 4 or 5 Avatar Sharks, assorted tape drives, and a couple of Syjets in the new boxes. All Syquest SparQs were sold out. Iomega 10 pack of Zip discs were $149. Fuji Zip 10-packs were $119. Sony 30-pack 1.44MB floppies were free after rebates. Superdisc 3-packs were $49. As for desktop computers, only 2 models out of the 20 or 30 had Zip built in. A Compaq Presario 4550, and one whose brand I can't recall. I looked for Buz, but it didn't look like they had it. I looked at other capture cards very briefly, and the Videomagic $139 by Hauppauge looked interesting. Another one called Videodirector in a very heavy box was $299. I discovered a guy writing stuff on a 3x5 card on top of a Daily News didn't attract too much attention to security, so I left and walked 1 Avenue over to CompUSA. I entered and was met immediately by an aisle of Zips. The PP port for $129 looked picked over. The Zip Plus was $199 and were neatly arranged. On the endcap, however, were about 15 or 20 SparQ EIDE internals for $199. 1 was gone from the neatly arranged display. I almost bought one too because it is such a screaming good deal. (I know I can't use it with my Mac, but still I think I can get it to work...) I went 1 aisle over, and there were more SparQ internals, though thoroughly ransacked. 2 SyJet internals were also there. All external Syjets sold out. All external Sparqs sold out. Beside me, a customer was looking at tape drives- a Ditto Max and an HP. The salesman recommended the HP Colorado 2.5 Gig tape drive and told the customer not to buy the Iomega Ditto Max 5 Gig because "I read a review of it somewhere the HP was better." I left before the customer had made up his mind and headed over to the Intel Computers. I saw only 1 floor model out of the 20 or so that had a Zip built in-- a Sony. There were 3 Sony floor models, 6 HP, and assorted other ones including NEC. Only 1 Zip. I headed upstairs to check out the new G3 Power Macs The Apple Ghetto wasn't nearly as crowded as the ground floor, but still all display Macs were busy. Apple might as well buy Iomega, because out of 4 G3 Macs, 3 had Zips. Out of 5 regular Power Macs, 3 had Zips. What was interesting is that the least expensive 6400 had Avid Cinema built in. No Buz needed here. But also no Zip. I would suspect that pretty much all new Macs don't need Buz either to work with Video. I went back downstairs, and 2 more SparQ's had left that endcap. I saw one older lady walking around with a PP Zip box in her hand. I saw no one else carrying any kind of storage device around except for that one lady. I didn't buy anything while I was there, but it was good to go out and go to places I haven't been to in awhile, and look at things I really can't afford to buy.