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1999 – When I told my friends and family that I had just bought a new iMac<\/a>, I got pretty much the same response: “Eww! A Mac!!! Gross.”<\/p>\n

\"Mac<\/p>\n

\"limeI was quite unpleased with this response, so I set my mind on getting these people to like my new Mac. I showed it to some of my P.C. (Pretty Crummy Computer) friends.<\/p>\n

At first, all of my potential converts said, “It’s green!” This color alone wowed them, but then I turned it on.<\/p>\n

The first thing they noticed was that I only needed to hit one button. Remember, there are only a few types of Windows machines that are in one unit. My friends were slowly starting to like this computer.<\/p>\n

\"WelcomeNow it was time to show more than the visual features of the iMac. Once they saw the Welcome to Macintosh<\/em> screen, they said that they thought the iMac looked very user friendly. This was because any of you who have ever turned on a Windows machine made more than a year ago will notice that you get a black screen with text at start up. The Winodws startup screen is quite unfriendly.<\/p>\n

Just 22 seconds later, the\u00a0Finder appeared. Now they saw how cool it really looked. Now it was time to make it perform. I quickly turned on Apple’s free speech recognition software (found at http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macos\/speech\/<\/a>). I then said, “iMac, tell me a joke” – and it did!<\/p>\n

Now my friends were definitely wowed. They had seen it boot very quickly\u00a0and heard\u00a0it tell a joke. My friends were hooked. Now they no longer say, “Eww, a Mac.”<\/p>\n

They say, “I can’t wait until I get mine.”<\/p>\n

I guess I’m a good seller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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