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

To: Gottfried who wrote (54267)	5/7/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

You're correct, they haven't said that. The product is so new that all the details haven't filtered out yet, IMO. Were I a sales rep pushing it however, this seems like an obvious application. Retrofit: again, it's new; I don't have all the details. I've heard there are several config options at initial purchase, but also there is no upgradability. On the other hand, I believe it won't be released until later in the Summer, so a lot can change between now and then. Limiting: the NC "real" market is small today. Corporate campuses seem to be the obvious starting point. May expand beyond that later in the coming year. You know yourself how quickly things change in the tech market. Two years ago, I never dreamed of having 96 Mb of RAM and a 56K modem. By the end of this year, I'll be using 256K RAM and a cable modem. A few housing contractors I've met have been receiving requests for wiring 10-Base-T networks inside residential homes. Mom, daughter, and dog "Spot" on NC&#151not an unforeseeable future. I already know a few families with multiple connections so they can surf the net individually. It's not so strange&#151just "different"&#151Think Different&#153. <gg> -MrB

To: Gottfried who wrote (54267)	5/7/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: FruJu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

The current news is that Apple is probably planning a USB external floppy/removable storage. I imagine Iomega has looked pretty seriously at a USB interface too. E>

To: Gottfried who wrote (54267)	5/7/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: iMac I posted last night about this new iMac NetComputer, and its lack of floppy drive. If you notice, it also lacks SCSI, serial, and Parallel ports as well. This rules out any current removable storage. It only has a CD-Rom for media input. It has 2 USB and 1 infra-red ports (as well as ethernet). I know of no desktop devices that currently use USB interfaces. One can only assume that Apple is going to come out with a USB printer for the iMac at the same time when iMac is released. The infra-red port could be used to link with Newtons or the newer Palm Pilots. It seems to me that this computer, besides home computing, is geared towards school classrooms, small offices, or any other places where ethernet is the standard method of sharing files. It's like that in a lot of studios I frequent. Almost all in-house files are zapped via ethernet. Sony, in an article I posted a few weeks back, stated they are working on multiple interaces for 200MB HiFi, USB included. The new iMac rolls out in August, the HiFi "in late Summer." Hmmm..... A floppy-compatible 200MB external USB Sony/Teac HiFi drive would make perfect sense connected to a brand new iMac. The new iMac is the first "NetPC" on the market, and it could sell really well in part to its network-ready features, and to its ultra-mod see-thru blue plastic casing. HiFi and iMac--whatta team.

To: Gottfried who wrote (54267)	5/7/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

The following is copied from the AAPL thread. I happen to agree with him. exchange2000.com From MacOS Rumors: Thursday, May 7th, 11:12 AM EDT What Apple didn't say about iMac In the words of a reader: The big announcement yesterday was what was demonstrated but not said. The nMac or Network Mac. Pop out the CD-ROM, swap 64 Meg for the 32 Meg. 1 gig drive for 4 gig drive, pop out the modem. Viola! $999 Network Mac administrative workstation. Faster than any Pentium desktop at any price. All OS and application management from server. Introduced into Rhapsody/Allegro OS environment. Price/performance ratio currently twice any Wintel desktop solution. Total cost of ownership using Gartner methodology would decimate any current TCO for Win NT solutions. IMO, if Apple were to do as said above, it could drop the price down below the magical $999 price, and one could imagine an entire office floor full of ultr-mod looking see-thru blue cased iMacs. All networked together where no removable storage is required to share files.