This is sort of getting off topic, but here is my final thought on this:
the iMac looks cute, but it is no friendlier than any other mac. It has
the same software, and very similar hardware. I don't think modern macs
are very friendly because they suffer from the same problems as windows-
lots of crud tacked on to an inadequate base. I have no idea why the
iMac is more likely to bring in a new layer of users than (say) the Sony
VAIO or one of the Toshiba systems. Sure, they're dung, but so is the
iMac when it's been stared at for a year.
As has been said before, while the original Mac offered a GUI for fairly
little in a fairly GUI-free world with Apple's name behind it, the iMac
offers a blue box in a black and beige world with a much weaker Apple
behind it.
>The iMac will change (or at least attempt to change) computing by
>bringing in a whole new layer of users -- ones that even the cheapy
>clone PC's couldn't attract. Similar to the ones that were attracted
>to the original Mac, but less adventuresome.
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