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For Love or Money (9/18/98)
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Speaking of faults with the original PowerBook G3 Series, probably the most severe one was the fact that actually getting one's hands on one of the higher-end models was a Herculean task. In particular, the configuration with the 292 MHz processor and the 14.1" screen was so scarce, there were people who placed orders for it the week it was released way back in May who still hadn't received it by the end of August. In fact, we're convinced that the people who were able to get one of those super-rare configs in a timely fashion had some kind of mob ties. While we may occasionally get nostalgic about "the way things were," we certainly didn't welcome the return of Apple's chronic availability problems.
We've heard several rumors why the high-end PowerBooks were so tough to deliver, the two most common being availability issues with the 14.1" screens, and the scarcity of 292 MHz processors. The "PowerBook G3 Series Mark II" was released in part to be a set of PowerBooks that people could actually buy, receive, and use, and since the new series standardizes on the 14.1" screen, apparently Apple's found a decent source now. As for processors, since Apple's already using the 300 MHz G3 in desktop models, they should have little trouble scraping enough of them together to slap into the new high-end PowerBooks.
And, according to O'Grady's PowerPage, that indeed seems to be the case; they've posted several comments from readers who report that their new PowerBook G3/300's are either en route or already in their hands. It seems we may finally be at the end of the "Great PowerBook Drought of 1998;" may its like never again rear its ugly head.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/18/98 episode: September 18, 1998: Apple secretly prepares a killer low-price PowerBook G3, for release only in limited quanities. Meanwhile, it sounds as though high-end PowerBooks are finally starting to show up in users' hands, and in the U.K., a large supermarket chain puts the consumer appeal of the iMac to the test...
Other scenes from that episode: 1023: Wall Street for Cheap (9/18/98) Sure, there were problems with the original Wall Street PowerBooks. For instance, while the 13" and 14" active-matrix screens on the higher-end systems were gorgeous, the passive-matrix 12" screen on the low-end model was less than perfect... 1025: Price Check on iMac (9/18/98) It may sound odd, but Apple's new consumer product is now being sold with consumables. In Merry Olde England, people in Cardiff and London can run down to the local supermarket to pick up a loaf of bread, a bottle of orange juice, a head of lettuce-- and an iMac...
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