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To: Eric Yang who wrote (16768)	8/16/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: Slugger	Respond to of 213177

MacNN is gathering and posting reports from all over. They can be summed up in a word: phenomenal. macnn.com forums.resurge.net Here's an excerpt from one report: "Here's in a nutshell the important stuff: At first, All iMacs were gone from the get go(60-70 boxes). There's a track delivering more this afternoon for walkins. 30-40% of people interested where PC users AND new people who had no idea of the difference between a computer and a monkey in a pink bikini. This is the big enchilada! The crowds intensified so much by 1pm, that I was talking to 4-5 people at the same time. Boxes were flying out as more people were coming in to pick up their peorders! Everyone should have seen the impression on a Windows user's face, whom I got to buy an iMac, when he saw and used Windows 95 running on the iMac under Virtual PC. He flipped out. And, he is not going to use it to run Windows! The number of 34% of totall sales being Mac at CompUSA is TRUE, and that was BEFORE iMAC! A couple who use PCs came in to look at the iMac, and decided to buy a G3."

To: Eric Yang who wrote (16768)	8/17/1998 1:47:00 AM
From: Marc Newman	Respond to of 213177

Eric, you wrote a great letter to CNET. Very factual. The new iMac ad is terrific. Opens with a shot of the backside of a PC then follows the cables down into a real morass of wires, etc. Keeps making jokes about how complicated and confusing PCs are, and then shows the iMac with its two little cables and says it's refreshingly "non-PC." Good stuff. Can't wait to see the next ones where they talk about speed and so forth. Plenty of positive reports about the launch on theimac.com too. Marc