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...iMac, which TIME took for an exclusive test run recently and which will be unveiled at the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco this week, could be just the thing. Like many PCs today, the new iMac is built around a flat-panel display. But instead of taking up precious desk space like a typical flat monitor, the iMac's 15-in. screen floats in the air, attached to a jointed, chrome-pipe neck. It's also rimmed by a "halo," a translucent plastic frame that makes you want to pull it toward you--or push...
...Server War The big fight among manufacturers is not over PCs but over the powerful data crunchers known as servers...
Start with what got us here. Businesses overspent to build things like PCs, Internet switches and routers, as well as speedy fiber-optic lines. That spending helped fuel the boom. But once corporate tech budgets tightened, tech stocks plummeted, and so did spending among consumers who held those stocks. Suddenly, those consumers felt much poorer. Typically, cycles work the other way. Robust consumer spending at the height of a boom induces businesses to build more plants at just the wrong moment--when the Federal Reserve is ready to dampen the whole party with higher interest rates to root out inflation...
...felt overwhelmed not by electronic debris so much as by paper: "printouts of e-mails, employee review sheets, interoffice memos, training guides." Galinsky, 36, a multimedia artist, recalls that "we dug through tons and tons of it." And there are similar volumes of paper, stored right alongside the latest PCs and servers, in offices around the world...
...ANITA HAMILTON likes to torture-test new technology--from the latest PCs to high-tech toasters--in her role as a columnist for TIME. This week she checks out holiday wish lists that people can e-mail to friends and family from various e-commerce sites. Chat with her on Wednesday...