Word: imac
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Enough people are loving their iMacs right now to pull Apple's earnings out of the red for the first time in three years -- and enough, at 68 cents a share for the third quarter, to soundly wallop Street estimates. But in the cutthroat computer industry, in which the future of a company rides on its market share, Steve Jobs' babe is far from being out of the woods. "If you shrink a company to the size of its existing niche, it's simple to turn a profit," says TIME tech correspondent Michael Krantz. "It's good that they...
...will change." The PCs that sit on most people's desktops today are essentially general-purpose computers to which networking has been added as an afterthought. Future computers, Grove says, will be networking machines that also do computing. And what will the next generation of PCs look like? "The iMac embodies a lot of the things I'm talking about," says Grove. "Sometimes what Apple does has an electrifying effect on the rest of us." The iMac, it should be noted, is built around processors made by Motorola, not Intel. Grove is not uncritical of the translucent blue box; like...
...what will the next generation of desktop computers look like? A lot like Apple's new iMac. "The iMac embodies a lot of the things I'm talking about," says Grove. "Sometimes what Apple is doing may have an electrifying effect on the rest of us. It's nothing we couldn't have done, but Apple went ahead and did it." Apple's iMac, it should be noted, is built around processors made by Motorola, not Intel. And Grove is not entirely uncritical of the translucent blue box; like millions of die-hard Mac fans, he wonders about the lack...
Apple's low-cost IMAC is a design statement bar none. But its sleek case is missing a very important feature: a floppy-disk drive. That could be a problem for those needing a simple way to move files between computers. Several vendors have come to the rescue: Imation of Oakdale, Minn., is offering its high-capacity SuperDisk drive in matching colors for $189 (below), while Newer Technology of Wichita, Kans., will sell a standard floppy drive for $90 in October...
...interim CEO, but even the most devoted fans of the Mac may be shocked to hear what he's doing to their famous Apple logo: he's getting rid of the rainbow stripes. The new PowerBook G3 will feature an all-white Apple, and the one on the new iMac will be blue. Future Apple logos on the Mac will be white or another solid...