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To: Scott Crumley who wrote (13110)	5/7/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: shahn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

> I'd like to hear from any college folks [about imac] Well, not exactly a student anymore but know lots and was one most of my life. So, lack of floppy big disaster. Well, this topic was done to death on this thread already so I wont repeat. Suffice it to say that the no-floppy concept is no good for anyone who has more than one computer in their life (I have 5 and I use the floppy in the bay in my laptop in preference to the cdrom for convenience of putting stuff on one or the other to work on. I'm not into graphics: my whole book fits on one old floppy). In the future we'll all use irda ports and ethernet but not this summer. I just want to remind everyone that Jobs is the guy who introduced the world to the ultrastylish NeXT Cube years ago WITHOUT A HARD DISK -- he believed the future was magnetooptic. Well, the next cube lovely as it was died. It was too cool. It was too visionary. Too bold. The consumer wasnt bold. The consumer was NOT interested in taking risks, in being visionary. The consumer was wowed but didnt buy. NeXT hardware died and they became a software only company. The imac makes me think 'Jobs hasnt changed'. Its a matter of personality; creativity and boldness are not what it takes to have the finger on the pulse of the ignorant fearful masses. Its the same reason I lose loads of money on creative investment ideas instead of boring msft stock -- wrong personality for it. But its only one product. The overall lineup looks good and the USB floppy will help offset the critics. I'm heavily into appl. I love jobs. Just hope the rest of his product feature team can stand up to his excesses of vision with a little common sense. They need to have floppy/superfloppy/zip as interna l BOT option. Good luck all, Shahn

To: Scott Crumley who wrote (13110)	5/7/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Dirk Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Don't the newer HP printers come with an IR port or option for one. Aren't they going to be handling some of Apple's printer line with the recent agreement? What about an iMac/Emate/IR Printer bundle? Get that bundle into the hands of a few hip freshmen and everyone will want one. Look ma, no wires! Dirk

To: Scott Crumley who wrote (13110)	5/7/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: Linda Kaplan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Scott: Good point about his pre-announcing this, just the way he pre-announced the first quarter earnings. He needs to build momentum and it's a great strategy. People might wait to buy this cool machine rather than buying something else and the iMac has gotten a lot of public and press sympathy. Steve Jobs is a real turn-on. :-) Linda

To: Scott Crumley who wrote (13110)	5/8/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: D VanSwol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

As I posted earlier, I am considering an iMac, nMac or AIO as upgrades for my physics and physical sciences lab. I've been a Mac user since 1984 and have been forced to use some PCs as some applications are only available for that platform. I need processor and graphics speed because I do interactive simulations as part of my lecture demonstrations. It sort of loose the students when the simulation looks like extreme slow motion. I think the students will really like the iMac due to its looks, and I can key off their curiosity, peaked by actually seeing the innards, to discuss the physics of how computers work. Finally, if I could go outside and collect real world data on a hand-held, then port the data over through an IR link would really make the science "come alive" for the students. --Dennis-- A college physics & geology professor P.S. Sorry this post is so far down the line from the original query, but like Bill Hoo Fat, I went to give a final, came back and was ~100 posts behind.