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In article <keston-2605991125590001@cr492282-a.ym1.on.wave.home.com>,
keston@home.com (Keston Charles) wrote:

The original poster was definitely asking for several hundred more than
the machine is worth. On the subject of the iMac, the floppy, the external
USB/SCSI/Zip... fugedaboudit! Buy yourself a $10 Ethernet crossover cable
and turn on file-sharing. Or send the files via email. It's ridiculous to
claim you "need" something as antiquated as a floppy drive, really
entirely ridiculous.

And I wouldn't spend $10 on a Zip drive; they're proprietary-format,
cheesily-built, and prone to all kinds of mysterious ailments (Click o'
Death e.g.). The iMac is not crippled; it was designed as an all-in-one,
so you are necessarily 'stuck' with the built-in monitor in the same way
that everyone with a previous AIO Mac is 'stuck' with the built-in
monitor. Yes, of course, there are AIOs in that line that can take a Nubus
or PDS video card and give you a second, seperate monitor, but it is not
common to take advantage of that option.

Instead, the slots in such Macs are usually given over to Ethernet cards
or accelerators. But ethernet is included in the iMac. To compare the iMac
to slotted Macs is pointless; they don't belong to the same class, so
issues of 'slots' drop out immediately. How many pci slots do you need is
a good question, of course, but if you happen to need even one, you'll
know it already, and the iMac as an option drops out. Most people don't
and won't need a video capture card, or anything else. Most people don't
or won't customize the hardware on a store-bought anyway, regardless of
what it is.

>Try to upgrade an iMac, then you will have no doubt "what to do"... The
>iMac is a crippled machine. Unless you dont plan to upgrade, customize or
>tweak, dont get it. And you''ll be stuck with that built in monitor, no
>video out/pci card options. You will kick yourself the ONE time when u
>need that freaking floppy. There is no comparison. Oh, and that $1850+tx
>is about $2100, dont forget the price of buying that usb floppy drive, or
>zip drive and usb to scsi adapter... about $2500+ when all you are done.
>iMacs suit some people's uses, but it a dead end as far as future
>upgradability. Not every one can affford to buy a NEW machine everytime a
>better one comes out (an upgradable machine comes in handy). Dont
>critisize people's sales just for the sake of doing so... at least know
>what the hell you are talking about. 
>
>my 2 cents...
>

>> > Power Macintosh  7500,  PPC 601/100mhz, quickly upgradable to G3 (just the
>> > time it takes to swap a card).
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>> > Cdn$ 999.00