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And Slots to Match (12/23/98)
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Ah, the age-old slot debate: is Apple shooting itself in the proverbial foot by including only three PCI slots in its upcoming Yosemite professional Macs? Well, actually, the latest rumors state that Yosemite really has four slots: three 64-bit slots and a single 66 MHz 32-bit slot that will come pre-loaded with an ATI RAGE 128 graphics card. Still, the fact remains that several professional Mac users need more than three slots free, and until vendors start coming out with multi-function cards that group features together on a single card for the 64-bit slots, there's going to be a need for more open slots. That's where the third-party expansion chassis comes in.
Now, the primary arguments against the expansion chassis plan as a feasible solution are price and complexity. First of all, we've heard that the chassis (which will give Yosemite a total of six or seven free slots) might cost as much as $1000, though we'd guess it'll be more like $700 or so. Cost aside, the fact that some people will have to hang a bulky and ugly box off the back of their beautiful new El Capitan Mac gives a lot of users pause-- and rightfully so, if the rumors of the new Mac casings are at all accurate. It'd be a crime against taste to stick a beige box next to the translucent midnight blue of El Capitan.
But what's this? According to Mac the Knife, whoever is making this expansion chassis is taking a page from the iMac peripherals vendors. Just as the release of the iMac led to a slew of translucent teal-and-white drives, speakers, keyboards, and the like, the Knife reports that the Apple-endorsed expansion chassis for Yosemite will match the nifty stylings of El Capitan. So there's no need to worry about a clash in styles, especially if you also get one of Apple's forthcoming Studio Displays, code-named Moby and Chablis. We can't wait to see all this matching gear hooked up and on display. While the rest of the world eagerly awaits the advent of Christmas, is it wrong of us to be more excited about the start of Macworld? Especially since we're not even going?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/23/98 episode: December 23, 1998: Those of you who need more than three slots in your Yosemite Macs but hate the expansion chassis idea might want to reserve judgement until you see what said chassis looks like. Meanwhile, speech recognition on the Mac side continues to lag, and the butt of last year's email prank announces his intention to move onto bigger and better things...
Other scenes from that episode: 1235: Left Speechless (12/23/98) Remember way back in the days of the Quadra AV series and the very first Power Macs, it seemed like Apple was blazing the trail in the field of computer voice recognition? Those Macs supported PlainTalk, a cool technology that would allow you to speak commands to the Finder, like "empty the trash" or "put this in the Apple menu."... 1236: Moving On, Moving Up (12/23/98) You hardly hear anyone talking about whether Apple's ever going to hire a permanent CEO these days, but a year ago it was a hot topic. And it got hotter once Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, irrepressible scamps that they are, "gave" the post to one Michael Murdock, via a couple of email messages that made for some good AtAT material...
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