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Psst, Wanna Buy an iMac? (9/4/98)
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For some reason, Macs and theft go together like peanut butter and banana. Two examples spring immediately to mind: the first is the way in which thieves will often walk right through a room full of PC's and spend extra time and effort to break into the room where the Macs are kept. There are a number of stories to this effect in the EvangeList archives, if you're willing to dig. In fact, we've personally experienced this phenomenon; our PowerBook was once stolen from an office in Los Angeles, and the Wintel laptop (not to mention the $20,000 Unix workstation) sitting right next to it was left untouched. Go figure.
The second example is being reported on MacFixit. It seems that iMacs are vanishing en route from resellers' warehouses to customers' homes. Take, for example, the strange story of Michael Ward, who contacted MacConnection to find out why his iMac still hadn't shown up several days after it should have arrived. MacConnection tracked the shipment, and discovered that the iMac had apparently been stolen en route. So they shipped a replacement. The replacement was also stolen en route. And according to MacConnection, this wasn't an isolated incident-- they're seeing several iMacs vanish during transit.
So there you have it-- one of those petty hidden drawbacks of being a Mac user; increased probability of theft. Macintosh: The Choice of Discriminating Thieves. Think Insurance Policy.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/4/98 episode: September 4, 1998: It looks like the iMac may be a little too popular for its own good. Meanwhile, Apple's quietly updating its speech recognition software for the Mac OS 8.5 release, and the Autostart Worm continues to infect Mac users worldwide...
Other scenes from that episode: 991: Cat Got Your Tongue (9/4/98) Remember back when the Macintosh platform had the edge when it came to speech recognition? Okay, maybe it never really held the lead when it came to actual dictation of spoken text, but at least all Power Macs were capable of understanding spoken commands after the simple installation of some free software from Apple... 992: Promoting Safe Macs (9/4/98) Hands up, how many of you are aware of the first real Mac virus to hit the scene in a few years, the Autostart 9805 Worm? Okay, keep your hands up if you're regularly scanning your Mac for its presence and taking precautions to guard against infection...
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