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iMac come with network and Internet capability           full screen video can be fed out with data to a whole set of computers           iMacs boot from server   Educational and research material can be distributed or kept on CDs, having all the illustrations, images, sound and motion information at hand. But the technology goes far beyond the CD. Computers like the iMac come with network and Internet capability built in, so that getting connected to a server or network, is what the device is designed to do, so that the information you need can be stored elsewhere and merely accessed with the computer. The most recent development in this form of technology has come from Apple’s new G3 Pro server. This new computer system, when coupled with low cost iMacs in a network setting, has the capability of providing material to the individual computer that was never ever before considered possible. Using MPEG compression and QuickTime 4 on one of these new servers, full screen video can be fed out with data to a whole set of computers instantaneously. In a school or collage setting, students could individually access video, text material, sound and process the information all at once over a full scale network. We expect to see special stripped down iMacs without their modems and hard drives, or even CDs sitting about a campus running off the server, because one of the most remarkable thing with the new server and the new iMac is that they can boot from the server using a single operating system. The cost of the iMac terminal will only be slightly more then a monitor and keyboard and will have the capability of a full high powered work station. In order to administer and maintain this system the administrator need only look after the server, as the individual machines all slave to it and updating the operating system or the applications used in the institution, will be accomplished in minutes without bothering with the individual computers involved.