On Fri, 8 May 1998, Keith Whitehead wrote:
> Yep...a VERY souped up Mac 128...infact this one expands up to 128 Meg
> Ram..coincidence (or hey a really neat conspiracy theory).
Woah. That got me thinking. It'll be scary when they come out with the
512MB Fat-iMac.
> How can you share data with a PC owner with no magnetic media for transport
Simple, use the internet. That's what its there for.
> With all of the missing bits, and obviously a home machine, have 10/100
> ethernet rather than firewire seems...well....stupid!
10/100 is a commerical reality. Firewire is still unproven in the
marketplace. You can hook an iMac up to TCI's cable modem service for
instance. How many telephone/cable companies are supporting firewire?
What was that? None?
> Personally I will wait for generation 2 when they have finally figured out
> the world has moved on since the original Mac and they now expect some
> level of expandability. I will almost put money the Gen2 with have dumped
> the e/net in favour of firewire, just as ADB has been replced with USB.
I think you've missed the point. The iMac is more of an internet
appliance than a PC made for upgrading everytime a new Pentium comes out.
The whole point is that you install it and go.
I don't mean to sound like a Mac advocate but...
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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