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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (17625)	9/7/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: Ryan Finley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

What's missing from the iMac...SCSI, PCI, ADB, Serial Port, Floppy. What's cutback...flimsy CD-ROM (cheaper), low-end ATI graphics chip Now don't take me wrong, because Apple has trimmed this machine to the bone and still come up with a screamer. To clarify my original point, I believe that the iMac is VERY cheap to produce, and it is reflected in some obvious ways, such as the spring loaded CD-ROM instead of a costlier powered CD-ROM. This machine was engineered to be the cheapest machine Apple has ever manufactured. (grain of salt added) What has created the buzz surrounding the iMac? The CASE! Jonathan Ives deserves a big raise! Besides USB, there is nothing different about the hardware. And you can't call USB revolutionary! :) In the case of the iMac, beauty is only skin deep. Jobs is having it all...competing for commodity sub-$1000 pc buyers without a commodity margin. In the end however, it's just my humble opinion. We'll all know what's up when the Q4 margin numbers come out.