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To: shahn who wrote (13113)	5/7/1998 9:56:00 PM
From: Dylan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

At UCLA, every dorm room is equipped with 2 ethernet ports providing access to a T1 connection. If this machine is intended for college students, then there is no need for a modem or a floppy drive with internet access that quick. -Dylan

To: shahn who wrote (13113)	5/7/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Adam Nash	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

My Opinion: Floppy doesn't matter. It just doesn't. Not when you can email things around as easily. Not when your OS helps with networking, etc. There will be external USB drives by summer. Tons. Every shape and size. Floppy, Zip, HiFD, everything. If people want them, they can get them. I bet you most people don't. Not worth the cash. Colleges haven't used floppies in a long time. Colleges actually tend to have some of the best networks around (ironically, because many of them are Unix/Mac based.) Floppy is lame when you can email it, or put it directly in someone's drop box, or leave it in a public directory for your friends to get it (on your machine). BTW Zip will never be the standard. Too slow, no backwards support, and worst of all, OEM price over $20 (I think it's $70!). Don't get me wrong, I have one, and use it. But it already is lame for backup (5GB to 100MB doesn't scale), and not enough people have it to make it a reliable medium for exchange. As for iMac - great intro, but don't get lulled. There will be 300Mhz Celeron machines at that price in August. However, there is still lots more cool stuff to come... Gotta say, I love seeing AAPL market well. It's about time. :)

To: shahn who wrote (13113)	5/7/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

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'. You're forgetting some important differences here. The NeXT cube was exhorbitantly expensive and ran a completely new operating system. The iMac, by any standard, is inexpensive for what you get, and runs the same old Mac OS and software we all know and love.