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To: Barney Dunn who wrote (16618)	8/13/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Loring	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

As an investor, I'd like to read some of those reports about moving workers from PB lines to iMac lines. Can you post your source? Thanks.

To: Barney Dunn who wrote (16618)	8/14/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Respond to of 213177

there are reports that they have been pulling workers from powerbook lines to work on IMAC Barney, Just a thought, if the parts for the PB's are constrained, Apple may have a production line bottleneck. If so, these workers could be idle if they were not shifted to the iMac. Again, just a thought. Sam

To: Barney Dunn who wrote (16618)	8/14/1998 4:16:00 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Respond to of 213177

i don't think apple will be able to meet initial demand for IMAC. Just like there past history. in addition there are reports that they have been pulling workers from powerbook lines to work on IMAC. if this is true it will kill there bottom line because those powerbooks are very high margin That's a for sure, there is no way Apple will meet the initial demand for the iMac, not by launch day or for weeks afterwards. Macintouch and MacNN are reporting that about 30,000 iMacs will be ready by Saturday, with 20,000 a week being the current production capacity. This means some folks will be waiting quite a bit longer for their iMacs. The lack of production capacity and problems with certain models is an age old problem at Apple, and it appears even the mighty Steve Jobs hasn't solved that one yet. I hope Apple solves its troubles with the high end PowerBooks, and soon. As you noted, they are very high margin and Apple desperately needs to be cranking them out in a big way. I hate to think of all the lost sales already because Apple can't make 'em fast enough...