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To: Travis who wrote (13052)	5/7/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Keep in mind that every year people buy tens of thousands, if not millions of personal computers with no floppy disk. They are called laptops. They do, however, have CD-drives (most of them anyhow). The question is, how are you going to load software into the iMac then? Answer: You take it to your local Apple dealer who has an ethernet, load the CD-ROM into a machine and play away. Thus the built in ethernet card... (yeap, this last part is pure speculation)

To: Travis who wrote (13052)	5/7/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

Well, I don't agree. Some software ships on floppies. How does it get installed? A CNBC reporter just mentioned that it was weird that it didn't have a floppy, though he seemed to like the machine. It is a perceived drawback, as is the slow modem. The lack of SCSI is not the same level of problem since the PC people don't expect SCSI. We do, but they don't, so it won't hurt this machine as much. There are certain niceties we've always had and I hate to see them go by the board. Linda