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To: Alomex who wrote (17701)	9/9/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213172

Plus the efficiency of the PowerPC as a RISC CPU , soon a "MPU" Silent on its RISC features , AAPL calls IBM's new 400 mz PowerPC 750 CPU their G3 MPU . RISC (reduced instruction set computer) processing played a part in AAPL's twofold file copy efficiency over NT while using AAPL's PowewrPC "optimized" netware OS . IBM's cache-less PowerPC 740 could be teamed with IBM's new mini-disk in portable (telephone, set-top TV, AMP) and NC devices . For IBM's explanation of RISC and the PowerPC: chips.ibm.com AAPL's G3 400mz MPU designation sounds like AAPL's rumored SMP server was awaiting that chip . Jim K.

To: Alomex who wrote (17701)	9/9/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

I have to say that when I first saw the iMac, the day it was presented, I wasn't overly impressed by its design. My idea of a cool looking machine is something like spartacus. Then a few days ago I bought the latest issue of MacWorld which has an iMac in the cover and plenty of pictures inside and I thought "cool, I like it". Well, today I saw an iMac IRL and I'm dissapointed. The mouse is entirely too small. From where I was standing all I could see inside the translucid plastic was a metal frame (no LEDs or neat looking circuitry). The iMac stand was located next to the queue for the cash register, so you could not walk out of the store without looking at the iMac. Good placing, if you ask me. However there was the complete lack of reaction from customers to it. I was in the store about 10-15 minutes, in which time over 20 persons walked in front of the iMac and only a couple of girls noticed it. I'd guess a Compaq in the same spot would garnish even less attention, but the iMac design being so radical and all I expected more people to stop and look at it. Lastly the price is awful. For $500 Cdn less a friend bought a compaq with a colour printer included....