The Macintosh using community has to love the iMac, and for several understandable reasons beyond its features and its looks. Hey, this machine is responsible for a good part of Apple's resurgence in computing and this is no small feat if you remember the extreme pessimism around the platform in 1997. Kids love it.
Women love it.
Retailers have mixed feelings over the iMac, though. They have to appreciate the fact that Apple's flagship machine has sold like hot cakes since August 1998, minus a few slower sales periods here and there. I know stores that owe a big part of their survival to the iMac's popularity with consumers. On the other hand, I have the impression, after two years of hearing comments from retailers both in e-mail and in person, that the iMac does cause them their share of trouble. Let me take you back to 1998.