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Fortune reviews iMac

updated 08:00 am EST, Tue December 12, 2000

 
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Fortune has posted a positive article comparing the iMac to Internet appliances. "[iMac] does everything the appliances can do (with the exception of the touch screen) but has all the power and flexibility of a 'real' personal computer. In other words, unlike the other mutts in this litter, this old dog can teach the user new tricks."


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    GORDYmac: TechTV

    TechTV's "Fresh Gear" program did a similar review on internet appliances, and said that the iMac was a better deal, since it only costs $799 and was a "real" computer.

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    way to go fortune

    this is the second edition in a row where Fortune Praises Apple products. their best technology of 2000 was really good to the fruity ones, including the cube and the G4 DP

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    Touchscreen iMacs

    You can get a touchscreen iMac.

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    make it touch screen

    Apple should just build in touch screen access, or provide an attachment for it. Would make it very attractive, no?

    iMac TS Edition ...

    Oh yeah, and make my iBook screen detachable so I can carry it around as a web tablet. And ...

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    Not out of the box...

    But yes, you can get a touchscreen iMac. You can get a touchscreen anything, for that matter.

    www.elotouch.com

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    Touchscreens

    You could probably find them everywhere, but here, in the Swedish shopping mall chain 'Åhlens' there are touchscreen iMacs serving as jukeboxes for the customers who'd like to listening to top rated CD's before purchasing. Quite nice I think.

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    Internet appliance.

    As a an Apple stockholder, Apple user and all around Mac zealot, I am concerned that we're sticking our heads in the sand here. One very important thing that must be done in order for Apple to be successful is to defeat the plug-in dragon. Attachments to email are a constant source of headaches to novice users on the Mac. On windows, attachments are just plain easier to deal with. (Of course this also adds vulnerability to viruses.) Apple (or some savvy developer) needs to work on this issue and give the mac the ability to read flash and shockwave animations encased in an .exe files. I use virtual pc for this, but if we take $799 and then add the price of virtual pc, you no longer have a really good deal.

    Now of course this observation does not seem fair given that the comparison was between the imac and internet appliances, and those internet appliances cannot even handle attachments, shockwave, flash or any other plugin for that matter, it is an ease of use issue that must be resolved.

    As for the latest internet appliance. I just purchased for my niece and my parents an internet appliance to get them connected. It wasn't easy, but they were having trouble on the mac I gave them two years ago, so I had to find them a machine with local support, a good price, and that would receive easily attached files and tidbits. Their main use for the computer would make most of us nerds cringe. I use final cut pro, filemaker, Microsoft Office, all kinds of internet stuff, photoshop, golive, livemotion, and the list goes on. The internet is more or less and "also ran" in my suite of applications. I have a powerbook G3 firewire and a B&W G3 on a home ethernet and connected to the internet through comcast @ home. My parents and my niece use America Online as their primary connection to the internet at my recommendation for it's ease of use and it's ability to limit what my niece encounters on the internet. AOL is h*** to me, but to them it's what they need ad all that they need. They also do some word processing, and consumer-level graphics stuff. For their task, I chose the best value I could find for what they needed. (and I'll ask my mac buddies to brace themselves and even some of those windows buddies) i bought them a used packard bell pentium MMX with a 2 gig hard drive and 32 meg of ram for about $200. The only thing I added to the system is a 56K modem which ran about $15.

    I'm not saying that Apple should meet the price of this machine, but if they deal with the usabilty issues of reading attachments, the mac would have been the best choice.

    The good news is that when they advance, the new printer that was purchased for this machine also has a usb port and a mac driver, so that when my niece advances beyond what this machine can handle, she can receive the best machine possible, another mac.

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    re: Internet Appliance

    If the ability to run exe files were added to the native MacOS, you'd have a Windows computer. The inability to run exe files natively is not a bad thing, IMHO, but rather, it's a good thing as the Wintel platform is what I and I'm sure many other Mac users want to avoid if at all possible.

    Being able to handle Windows email attachments is an unreasonable and technically unfeasible requirement. You either get a peecee or run an emulator. Anything else would compromise the MacOS and make it much less attractive.

    As for me, I would not suggest buying a Wintel computer unless the person's requirements could not be met by the Mac platform. Life is too short to hassle with Windows.

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    re:Internet Appliance

    Let me get this straight, you bought a windows machine so your family could read email attachments. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....

    Stupid.

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    Flash projectors

    Your concern appears to be with flash animations encapsulated with a Windows executable projector. The real solution to this problem is for people to stop sending boneheaded platform-specific attachments. Look at one of those "executables" some time, chop off the first part of the file in Hexedit, and you'll have a regular old Flash 3 or 4 file, which you can play in Quicktime Player or a web browser. Obviously your parents aren't going to learn to do this (though it could probably be Applescripted for them in a droplet), but they should be sent this way in the first place. Since most all of these things originate on the web somewhere, an even better idea is to send a URL to the site where it actually came from (and where the author might get some reimbursement from you watching it, or at least know that you did). Flash was developed as a portable plugin format, and it oughta be used that way.

    On the other hand, wanting a whole new computer so one can see some goofy cartoons is evidence that one doesn't really need a computer at all.

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