I emailed quite a few people to see if this was true. Besides, an iMac will fit right into her kitchen decor. Prices will probably come down. More peripherals will appear and maybe some of those USB vendors will build hubs into their devices. Expect a lot of relatives to get their feet wet with computing on an iMac.
People are afraid to say it.
Analysts don't believe it, but three articles from the past week make me think that the iMac is going to bring some Wintel users over to the Mac side. The first was an article by Jeff Pundyk on TechWeb . He used to be an Apple user, but switched to Wintel some time ago. The second article was by Laura Lindhe at MacWorld Magazine. Laura is a former PC editor recently transplanted to MacWorld.