Comments on: New iMac: Bye-Bye Modem?

By: joe

joe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:52:39 +0000

Looking to buy an Imac Leopard, if so, can I install microsoft digital image in it? and is adobe photoshop an good and easy to run?

By: Vickie

Vickie — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:27:36 +0000

I am a firt time user of iMac and still learning. There is one bad thing, high speed interent or DSL is not available to all areas. I live in an area that dial up is the only thing we can get. Hate it but there is more of the population that can not get high speed than you think. Seems they are corrections faster than they are laying down lines. To be honest I think I am paying more for dial up than what DSL cost.
I do miss having Callwave or something of that sort in my iMac. Now I miss calls due to that if I am on line.

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:24:47 +0000

just got a Mac Book and I love it…except no internal modem. No dial up. Now that;s fine for when I’m at home. But I travel quite a bit. And the rest of the country hasn’t quite caught up with the technology.

If I had known, I would have thought twice about purchasing…

can anyone suggest a cost effective solution to this problem?

What are my options?

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:27:08 +0000

Yeah, on the one hand it is a shame. I live in the woods and there are very few high-speed options which most people do not want to spend the $ for. This leaves dial-up. On the other hand, it will hopefully be like the floppy which is just old technology. Unfortunately we are still in the midst of it so Apple is a little ahead of the game (as always). A friend asked me to set up her new iMac and it was then that I realized that she needs to purchase yet another piece of equipment in order to get online.
Macs rule, but it’s stuff like this which gives Apple a reputation of being spendy as well as monopolizing.

By: sh

sh — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:26:35 +0000

http://www.settysmooth.com. watch “the mac”

By: sh

sh — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:25:40 +0000

the only reason u need to buy a mac. watch “the mac”.

By: PK

PK — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:40:17 +0000

I currently have a PC but will be buying a 24’ Mac. My hard drive is a ST340083 2AS SCSI Disk Device. Can anyone help. When i get delivery of my mac how do i move all my old files from my PC over to my new mac??
Been told i can’t transfer
PLEASE PLEASE HELP

By: Sid

Sid — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:38:50 +0000

No Modems or rather problems with them is what killed linux.
Will kill off a lot of imac sales as well as people i hear talking
about imac not having modem [don't] realise u can get one.

For all you rich hotchits most of us still use dialup. Don’t let surveys fool u.

I know a lot of people who rely mainly on dialup cause dsl, adsl, cable and wireless is not even close to reliable in their area so they keep trying “highazz speed” but end up using dialup a lot of [most?] the time. The whole thing is just not what it’s craped up to be.

By: Bugs

Bugs — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:12:33 +0000

I wish they had left the modem in. I still have dial-up because they don’t have DSL in my area, and I don’t want a cable connection. I have a Winblows-based machine right now, and want to replace it with a Mac, but need a modem, so I probably won’t buy it.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:45:40 +0000

That kind of sucks, Imean, almost allpeople who have a computer use dial-up(or so i assume)So, it’s other crap that apple takes offs….Even if ilove macintosh…they are very ambicious and put everything expensive, and thats wrong..

By: Cristian

Cristian — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:52:27 +0000

What is wrong with investors these days? Does anyone have any idea what has to happen to Apple revenues to justify the existing stock price? The answer is they have to double. The stock is overvalued right now and still going up.

By: iGav

iGav — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:27:19 +0000

The only reason I’d mourn the modem would be that it’s a shame not to be able to send faxes – ah well, maybe Apple could add sending and receiving faxes via .Mac – that would be rather cool and just the sort of thing i’d like to be able to do.

On that front, perhaps Apple could go all out and integrate a telephone interface ala Skype to iChat so that my mac could be come my answer machine too

By: matt

matt — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:47:47 +0000

anyone who can and does buy and iMac G5 isn’t going to have dial-up, haven’t they alreayd gotten rid of it for the powermacs? i’m glad they got rid of it, i don’t wanna pay extra for something I, and very few others, will never use