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Pat wrote:
> 
> Hello again,
> OK, I guess you're right ... but alot of LINUX users boot with LILO from a
> floppy! 

whats wrong with booting from cd?

>Just giving my 2 cents worth (if that's all it's worth). I've got
> nothing against IMAC, it's just not meant for twiddling around like the PCs
> which you can easily swap hardware on

True....and false.  Its not meant for twiddling.  Rather its meant for
working.  I actually have more fun on my p200mmx trying to get things to
work than i do on a "bastard" 486, which i run as a fileserver - its
just so stable.  Mac are anything but bastard but still get the job done
in a minimum of fuss.  They are very well engineered machines.  The
reason why PCs are easy to rip apart is because they are based on such
old designs (the design does "work" though...).

The iMac solves the old macs problem of.. well kinda poor (about as poor
as a pc's) expandability.  USB allows on the fly swapping.  Its pretty
much plug and play implemented at hardware level.  How much more
hardware swapping can you want?

> IMAC seems to be esigned for one
> purpose, home computing and web browsing, which alot of people buy computers
> for.

True.  And considering this latest craze called the "internet", and the
fact that you can have a mac out of the box on the net in a few minutes,
i'd think it's finally produced the right machine for the right market.

> And believe it or not, but I still transfer files on floppies for friends
> where using a zip drive would be overkill.
> Just face it there are a whole lot more PCs out there than MACs, hardware
> and software upgrades are usually cheaper to buy than their MACs
> counterparts. Or perhaps, I'm wrong and don't know better.

That is the case with many ppl today.  For too long ppl have been
limited by what pc designers don't want/like doing.  Have a look at how
long music cds have been in use as opposed to data cds.  ppl use
floppies cos they don't know better.  Do you remember win95 being
released on floppy?  how bout nt? 30 odd disks.  Now that ppl have heard
of this marvellous device called a cd drive they demand all software
come on cds.

Transfer of files between imacs would not normally be a problem assuming
they are networked (via the internet included).  Transfer between imac
and a decent internet capable PC would be easy.  The only thing that
would entirely depend on floppies would be extremely lame machines.  The
other point i should make is that for how much longer do you think files
will stay under 1.4M in size.  In this world where ego=bandwidth, docs
will soon no longer be just text based - taking up a few k. It'll be
megs per doc.  

It really shows that Apple is thinking "tomorrow", not yesterday like
most of the PC market.

> 
> Pat
> 
> John Leopold wrote in message ...
> >And I doubt anyone ever saves a document to a floppy to transfer to a
> friend
> >or another computer.
> >

Rod
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