the new Apple iMac

From: Jack Peacock <peacock_at_simconv.com>
Date: Thu May 7 19:27:58 1998

If this new Mac has no removeable media, what happens when the hard
drive breaks? How do you re-install the OS? Off the net? Catch-22, OS
isn't running, no TCP/IP stack. Off the USB? OK, then the boot ROM
supports bootable media from the USB? I'm impressed, even PCs don't
support that. And the removeable media of choice for the USB is? No
wait, let me guess, a scanner...you load the OS by scanning in bar codes
which contain the OS binaries. That would be, oh, about 100K pages to
scan in? Or you just send the whole thing back to Apple, and if they
have spares, and they are still in business, they send you back a nice
new pre-installed disk, sans all the software and setup you had on it.
Then you restore off the net, but uh oh, all you have is a 28.8Kb
connection, and 400MB of backup.

Good plan, system administrators will love this machine. No doubt
corporate types will beat down Apple's door to buy it.
        Jack Peacock
Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 19:27:58 BST