[DM-MUG] Just wanted to bounce something off the list... iCheap?

[Dave Reed]

With the proviso that I'm REALLY bad at out-guessing Apple...

I don't think a headless iMac is a good idea.  The whole idea of the=20
iMac is "all-in-one".  You take it out of the box, plug it in, turn it=20=

on and it works.  If you have to add "buy the RIGHT monitor and cable"=20=

to the equation it stops being a box for a newbie.

I don't see it.  I just don't see it.

On Dec 30, 2004, at 11:28 PM, Matt W wrote:

> I'll buy a few, but I'm already a member. PC users will still cry,=20
> "It's got too few viruses and spyware so it can't be a real computer,"=20=

> or, "I can still build a vastly inferior PC and pirate Windows for 36=A2=
=20
> less."
>
> Matthew
>
> On Dec 30, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Bailey Ford wrote:
>>> The rumor mill is abuzz with talk of a sub $600 headless iMac. What=20=

>>> do you guys think? Will it bring in hordes from the dark side? What=20=

>>> could this mean for our beloved platform?
>>
>> The Mac people will know what the Linux users have felt like for the=20=

>> last few years :-) Bring on the unwashed masses...
>>
>> --=20
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