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

To: Naggrachi who wrote (54852)	5/16/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Albert Levulis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

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To: Naggrachi who wrote (54852)	5/16/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Iomega's arrogance and apparent disregard for their customer's intelligence continues to amaze me. I hold in my hand the newest Mac Connection which arrived a couple of days ago. On page 15 is a full page Iomega ad. They advertise the Zip Plus for $179 after the $20 rebate. However, in the copy, it reads "The Zip Plus takes all the great features of the original Zip drive and adds cross--platform capabilities..." Excuse me for being a little dense, but isn't one of the "great features" of the original Zip drive the fully functional SCSI port? This is a blatant case of misleading advertising, and perhaps grounds for a fraud case. What's more, is that on page 28, is a small ad for a bundle consisting of "Iomega Zip Plus & Microtek Scanmaker V310 (plus 3 Zip discs)." Evidently, they think that their consumers are morons because they bundle two items that cannot work together! The Zip Plus, according to Iomega's website, is horribly engineered and cannot function on a SCSI chain. Therefore, the bundling of these two items makes no sense. If you feel like using the Zip Plus drive, you have to turn off the computer and unplug the scanner and everything else on the SCSI chain, then plug in the Zip Plus all by itself on the SCSI port. Then, boot back up. WOW! Talk about convenient! What a great bundle! Also, it's quite the bargain. The bundle's total cost is $289.95. Take the Zip Plus all by itself ($179), then the scanner ($79 after rebate), then 3 Zip discs (~$30) = $289 The bundle price is the same price as buying everything individually. WOW!! What a bargain!................not Thanks, Iomega!

To: Naggrachi who wrote (54852)	5/17/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Interesting post from the AAPL thread. iMac and Jobs definitely believe in the internet and ethernet. That's for sure. exchange2000.com Mac Update. via MacOSRumors >A reader had these insights into the forthcoming iMac, from an Apple briefing: The senior engineer guy said that Jobs and others visited Maxell during the development of the iMac and found that Maxell has not manufactured a floppy in a few years and has much warehouse space wasting away storing too many of the buggers. Therefore, Jobs figured that floppies are no longer hip for storing files, so they looked for other solutions. Also, it was mentioned that the iMac, being a consumer-oriented machine, was nicely positioned to transfer files electronically "through the wire" so to speak. Meaning that Apple will encourage owners of the machine to transfer files via the Internet. He also said the iMac would be an excellent complementary machine to the G3 for classrooms. [We interpret this to mean that Apple is not going to try and sell this machine as an end-all, be-all, rather a nice little "appliance" for Internet stuff and lower-end applications.] He also mentioned that the 33.6Kps modem will most likely be changed. CompUSA already has 70,000 advance orders for a machine that hasn't even begun production!< -------------------------------------------- I love fundamentals. This is already 70,000 orders from CompUSA that Sony can snatch right of the bat just by coming to market on time. A USB HiFi drive can handle all those old floppies laying around (as well as all of the installer programs that are still shipped on them), as well as fast fast fast 200MB Sony hiFi discs- the new Standard in removable storage.