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All Aboard the Express (10/23/97)
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MacOS Rumors has some nice little tidbits on Apple's new high-end line of computers, code-named PowerExpress and slated for release in early 1998 (hopefully at the January MacWorld Expo). They sound like some serious machines.
Somewhat surprisingly to us, these new speed demons will not use the PPC 750 (commonly called the "Arthur") chip that will ship in next month's midrange Power Macintosh G3 series. Instead, they will use the Mach 5 variation of the 604e chip, running between 300 and 400 MHz. We're not sure, but we think the slowest of these systems may therefore be a little slower on integer performance than the fastest G3 systems. However, because the Mach 5's rock the Arthur's world when it comes to floating-point performance, the PowerExpress series should totally kick butt for Photoshop use and other high-end graphics and 3D applications. Also, the Mach 5's can be used in multiprocessing systems (and there will be at least dual-processor Power Express boxes, and maybe even a quad-processor box), while the Arthur cannot.
The really interesting bit, though, is the rumor that Steve Jobs intends to name the computers "PowerMac G3 Extreme." We at AtAT think that, in addition to being too long and slightly misleading (sounds like it's packing an Arthur chip), Steve's proposed moniker sounds more like a sport utility vehicle than a Macintosh.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/23/97 episode: October 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 112: Knife Ist Ein Baumkopf? (10/23/97) The folks at Reality and the Macintosh Conspiracy have teamed up to debunk the supposed COS screenshots floating around the web. You may recall that COS is the "Dream OS" from Omega, a relatively unknown German development company who claims to have reverse-engineered a Mac OS 8-compatible, totally memory-protected, symmetrically multiprocessing, pre-emptively multitasking, B2-security certified clone of the Mac OS that is four times faster, runs in 4MB of RAM, only takes up 12MB of hard disk space, and will be downloadable over the web for $99-- written in under a year, with no development help from Apple, and ready to ship by November 13th. Done laughing yet?... 114: McNealy Warns Buyers (10/23/97) Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy once again took time to pursue his favorite hobby-- that of publicly blasting Microsoft for its various crimes against humanity. Apparently unsatisfied with only having sued Microsoft for breach of contract (you know, that whole "incompatible Java" hullabaloo), Scott threw in little oblique jabs while addressing a crowd of Sun customers, says a New.com story...
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