Re: The sad Truth about iMac:

[Gareth Jones <gareth@vcn.bc.ca>]

John Paul Murdie <john_murdie@sunshine.net> wrote:
> This is an article written by Brad Dosland in the March issue of Maximum PC., he
> is the editor in Chief.

(snipped)

> I was going to buy an iMac, but after reading this article I don't know? I 
> would
> like to see some feedback, hopefully my opinion will be swayed as it is a
> compact little machine that you can easily pack with you anywhere you go with
> little fuss. If I had to pack up my IBM clone it would take me an hour to stow
> it.
> John Murdie, Pender Harbour.

This isn't the place to air this question, but since I've just wrestled
with it myself, here goes. The iMac will do a lot, and it is pretty fast
by my standards. However, it has no fast way to connect a peripheral:
neither SCSI nor FireWire. By preference, I'd like a machine that
supported both, and ADB to boot! That's why I talked myself out of getting
an iMac (which I could afford now) into getting one of the desktop G3's
(which require me to wait and save).

I'm typing this on a 13-year-old machine. If the shape of the iMac box is
more important to you than the ability to add certain goodies that are
beyond the iMac, then go with my blessings, buy all the software you could
ever want, and use the iMac for the next 13 years. I don't think that you
_can_ buy ahead of the curve ... but you can buy to satisfy your immediate
and projected needs.

-Gareth