Ausatco, you've gone and done it now - we (as in the Coalition Against the Spread of Apple Computers (CASAC)), were trying to brainwash Tosh into sleepwalking his way to a computer shop and swap the Imac for a decent 'puter - hence the Windows rhetoric.
But seriously, point taken, well spotted,

but I would have thought that the principles we outlined, if not the terminology, is the same for Imacs and PCs? According to the Apple site the Imac should have a number of firewire ports and an Ethernet interface built-in, sorry, moulded in to the gently ondulating curves of the device. Hence in theory the two should be able to connect. Wherever they would talk to each other is another matter of course.