As the Apple Turns: Scene 121: Powerful Powerbooks (10/26/97)

Powerful Powerbooks (10/26/97)

If you're a regular viewer, you know we've been regaling you with tales about the new Power Macintosh G3 line, due in a couple of weeks, as well as the unfortunately-named Power Macintosh G3 Extreme boxes due in February or March; but what of the neglected Powerbook line? Sure, we finally got a subnotebook to replace the canceled Duo line (the speedy 2400, with its keyboard suitable only for native denizens of Munchkin City), and before that we got the "fastest laptop in the world (the 3400), but without any competition, the Mac OS notebook line is in danger of growing stale.

Enter Mac the Knife, with his ever-titillating and always-apocryphal pseudofacts. This week he reports that the Powerbook 3500 (previously known as Kanga) will make its debut soon, probably concurrently with the Power Macintosh G3 line on November 10th. And that's fitting, since the 3500 will sport a 250 MHz PowerPC 750 chip, which, when coupled with a 1 MB 125 MHz backside cache, should make the top-of-the-line 3400 look like something made by Fisher-Price for your three-year-old.

How could anyone follow THAT act? Well, how about by introducing Wall Street in the spring? The high-end version of this bad boy will pack a 292 MHz PPC 750, a 14.1 inch screen, and a DVD-ROM drive. (With all this great gear, we're guessing that if Wall Street was weight-classified as a member of the Facts of Life cast, it'd be Mindy Cohn.)

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The above scene was taken from the 10/26/97 episode:

October 26, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

122: Clothe the Masses! (10/26/97) AtAT is publicly backing Charles Martin's open letter to Steve Jobs over at MacCentral, in which he proposes a new direction in which to channel the staggering $100 million that Apple spends on advertising each year...
123: Your Weekly Retch (10/26/97) Hey, really-- what Monday would be complete without that queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach? Well, if you can't achieve that nausea naturally via a debauched and excessive lifestyle, AtAT is here to help. Just point your browser over to this article in Windows Magazine...

Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast...


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