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IMax, UMAX, We All Max...(9/23/97)
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Following the recent Clone Wars, only one of the Big Three compatibles manufacturers is still left standing-- Power Computing was bought out, and Motorola got out while the getting was good, leaving UMAX as the sole survivor. However, it looked like UMAX remained only as a token cloner; rumors flew that they were essentially restricted to the sub-$1000 system market, and that they were also being directed towards overseas markets, leaving the yummy high-end domestic market ripe for the picking by the Apple Empire.
There were brief signs that reports of UMAX's castration were greatly exaggerated, when Webintosh yesterday reported that a UMAX CHRP machine (the Power 6000 Pro) had been certified by Apple and would be available by the end of this year. Unfortunately, this proved apochryphal, and UMAX representatives confirm what we've been hearing all along-- that Apple hasn't certified any CHRP models for production. Unlike Motorola, though (who says their Starmax 6000 will never ship), UMAX is still trying for Apple certification of their CHRP box, so there's at least a glimmer of hope that we'll be able to buy a CHRP machine sometime this century.
Incidentally, AtAT staff got to test-drive Motorola's stillborn CHRP model at the MacWorld Expo last month. After witnessing four-digit MacBench scores firsthand, we consider it a crime against humanity that Mac users can't buy this existing technology. It's an atrocity right up there with overcooked broccoli and when Jane kept going back to Michael back in the glory days on Melrose Place. (Not as heinous a crime as Windows 95, however.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/23/97 episode: September 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 14: T-Minus 89 & Counting... (9/23/97) Faithful viewer Brian Freeman made an interesting suggestion via our Feedback page: "Scully canned Jobs and took us on down the road. We didn't like it much. Let's give Steve his 90 days. Then if it isn't right, we'll break out the Macintosh IIVX's and blow a hole in him!... 16: imedia, You Media... (9/23/97) It's with great wailing and gnashing of teeth that we read the final press release from Clone War victim Vertegri Research, confirming that they are shutting down. Vertegri, you may recall, made the imediaEngine, the first and only Powerbook clone...
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