Archive: July 1998

Computer Media

• Apple bites back at PC with iMac, Australian Financial Review (31 July)
• iMac gives Apple a big, bold future, Arizona Republic
• iMac iNfo clarifies Canadian iMac pricing (31 July)
• Cacti.org buys an iMac (30 July)
• the iMac.com compares iMac and Compaq Presario (30 July)
• Ojai Digital Arts Center in Ojai, CA, to use iMacs, more in Wired (thanks, iMac iNfo)
• iMac watch: storage, networking, and backup, MacAddict (30 July)
• SCSIShare lets iMac share a SCSI device on a networked Mac, Stalker
• iMac under heavy production, Reality (30 July)
• The iMac channel launches the iMac list, an email list for iMac users, prospective users, and fans (29 July)
• MacCentral has an index of all their iMac news reports
• The iMac really is bulletproof (plastic), MacAddict (28 July)
• CompUSA's iMac coupon promotion under fire, MacCentral (27 July)
• iMac2Day reports $1,899 price for iMac in Canada If you have pricing elsewhere, please send it to dknight@mail.iserv.net. Thanks! (27 July)
• Each CompUSA slated for at least 45 iMacs at release, Macs Only! (27 July)
• Rumor: iMac to sell at 21 point profit to dealers, Macs Only! (27 July)
• Macworld Singapore report, The iMac News Page
• What's in the CompUSA coupon book?, MacInTouch (24 July)
  Nine of 21 items are not available for iMac. This represents over $200 of the $800 value of the coupon book. Another $300 comes from buying PageMaker, and $100 more from CorelDraw. That leaves under $200 for the average iMac user.
• USB-native Epson Stylus 740 to ship 17 August, iMac iNfo (26 July)
• Apple has released official iMac specs
• Boston ISP uses iMac as email server, Ben Wilson, MacCentral (23 July)
• Reality reports that Techworks is planning a plain USB floppy
• CompUSA has over 300,000 iMacs on order, offers coupon books, MacCentral (22 July)
• iMac upgradability update, Michael Rosenquest, the iMac (22 July)
• iMac watch: look but don't touch, Mac Addict (22 July)
• iMac goes to the Ivy League, Jim Davis, c|net (20 July)
• iMac, uMac, we all Mac for iMac, Pete Rhinehardt, AppleLinks
• iMac rollout at CompUSA to be huge, Reality News (18 July)
• iMacs, the real market, Fred Giuffrida, AppleBits (18 July)
• Local Apple dealers line up to sell iMac, Ben Wilson, MacCentral (18 July)
• Newer Technology planning a USB floppy for iMac, with two Mac serial ports (LocalTalk? GeoPorts?) and two USB ports, the iMac (17 July)
• MacNN reports the iMac may have 2 DIMM sockets and support up to 256MB of RAM (15 July)
• Apple innovations through the years, Reed Martin, iMac2Day (15 July)
• Miller looks at the iMac, Michael Miller, PC Magazine (14 July)
• The dog days of summer: countdown to the iMac, Steve Hughey, MacGeeks (14 July)
• New on TopTenLinks -- iMac resources (14 July)
• Apple working to have 250,000 iMacs available on August 15, Jim Davis, c|net (10 July)
• Macworld Expo chooses the iMac Best of Show
• iMac test-drive models already slipping into stores, ZDNet
• USB, okay for the low end, updated (9 July)
• SyQuest announces SparQ 1GB drive for USB (9 July)
• Apple announces iMac will be in stores on August 15. (8 July)
• Iomega announces $149 USB Zip! drive at Macworld (8 July)
• Connectix announces Quickcam for USB (8 July)
• Asante announces iConnect, $149 Ethernet-to-LocalTalk bridge -- connect LocalTalk Macs and printers to the iMac (8 July)
• iMac strategy blossoms, MacTimes, (8 July)
• BackJack, internet backup for the Macintosh (8 July)
• That Darn USB!, Don Crabb, Rumor Reality Report (7 July)
• Confirmed: iMac will ship with 56k modem, MacCentral (7 July)
• Imation SuperDrive details, will sell for $189 (7 July)
• Support for USB grows, MacTimes (7 July)
• Alps announces USB compatible printer, MacCentral (7 July)
• iMac Talk, My Mac (6 July)
• HP announces iMac connectivity for DeskJet printers (6 July)
• 600,000 iMacs by Christmas?, Don Crabb, MacCentral (6 July)
• USB Uber Alles?, Don Crabb, MacCentral (6 July)
• Isetta and the iMac, Thinking Different (6 July)
• New iMac comes out at Macworld Expo, Charles Piller, Nando.net (6 July)
• The iMac strategy, Guyren Howe, ThessaSource (6 July)
• Connectix announces RAM Doubler 8 and Virtual PC 2.1 (6 July)
• Out of the AppleCart: let them eat cake, Susan Howerter, My Mac (6 July)
• The iMac: perfect for schools, Dan Knight (5 July)
• The iMac: first of a family?, Dan Knight (5 July)
• iMac: for the 85% misguided by Wintel (part 1, part 2, part 3), Eugene Chan, the iMac com (30 June, 1 July, and 3 July)
• Steve Jobs: one year at Apple, and Mark wants an iMac, Charles Martin, MacCentral (3 July)
• The iMac is grOwning anew Apple, Matthw M. Linton, Mac OS Daily (3 July)
• The Mac Retro and iMac iNfo have merged into a single site retaining the iMac iNfo name (2 July)
• Grand opening at iMac2Day -- register to win an iMac
• iMac in CompUSA inventory system, iMac iNfo (1 July)
• iMac receives enthusiastic welcome, Patrick McKenna, Computer Paper (1 July)
• more in the June archive

General Media

• iMac joins mainstream, Edmonton Journal (30 July)
• Mossberg reviews the iMac, MSNBC (30 July)
• New Mac desktop set to turn heads, Charles Haddad, Edmonton Journal (23 July)
• The iMac is here!, Charles Downs, Arizona Central (22 July)
• iMac and the Asia market, Josephine Ng, Reuters (23 July)
• Berklee College of Music calls the iMac "the perfect computer for a new student who wants a low-cost, fast system that is Internet-ready and loaded with software." (18 July)
• Spellbound by the latest Mac, Sandy McMurray, Toronto Sun (15 July)
• Mac's the 'i' of his Apple, Kenneth Li, mostNewYork (13 July)
• Cost clouds iMac's savior status, Charles Piller, Los Angeles Times (13 July)
  " The iMac is so much better than a run-of-the-mill economy PC that many people will buy it no matter what the cost."
• Can iMac boost Apple in a PC world?, Jodi Mardesich, San Jose Mercury News (12 July)
• iMac come out of the box to resuscitate Apple, Paul Andrews, Seattle Times (12 July)
• iMac impresses with power, ease, Don Crabb, Chicago Sun-Times (7 July)
• Apple Computer hinges hopes on iMac, Jerry Mahoney, Austin American-Statesman (7 July)
• It's a new Mac attack, Kenneth Li, Most New York (7 July)
• Apple's iMac, too far ahead of its time?, Dave Zeiler, Baltimore Sun (7 Jully)
• Apple's novel iMac to be focus of MacWorld, Therese Poletti, Reuters (5 July)
• Strong early iMac orders raise Apple's prospects, The Toronto Star (3 July)
• Apple Computer's snazzy iMac draws early orders, Bloomberg (1 July)
• more in the June archive

iMac Hardware

• Farallon announces iMac connectivity solutions: $99 iPrint adapter connects iMac to LocalTalk printers and network; $119 EtherWave Multi-Printer adapter allows connecting two ethernet devices with up to 8 LocalTalk devices. (29 July)
• more in the June archive

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