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The Four-PCI-Slot G4 (9/2/99)
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Four slots in the G4? It's a well-kept secret, but it's true. And we're not talking about the Yikes! model with the three open slots and the fourth for the graphics card. We're talking about an honest-to-goodness Sawtooth-based G4 with the graphics card in the AGP slot, and four more PCI slots to fill with expandy goodness (or a five-slot box with PCI graphics). You think we jest? Hey, we're just going by what the Apple Store says. Faithful viewer Dwarka Divecha sent in this special report:
I just stumbled across something and yours was the only site I could think of that might be interested. [Ed. note: Gee, we're flattered. We think.] I was at the Apple Store, maxing out all the options (max price $18,896.00), when I realized that Apple itself has apparently decided that 3 PCI slots is not enough. Because the Apple store will apparently let you buy a machine with 4 PCI cards (5 if you count the Rage 128). It will let you get a Rage 128 with two video cards, an Ultra2 SCSI card, and an Ultra SCSI card all on one machine. Not that many people would need both SCSI cards, but there might be a few. Where would Apple put the fourth card?
Reasonable people might assume that this is simply an Apple Store bug, but folks like us know different. What Dwarka has discovered is the Stealth G4, Apple's top-secret project to give high-end users a little more breathing room in the expandability department. We figure that it simply accidentally got added to the Apple Store's configuration system when it should have been kept hush-hush. Or maybe not. Hey, even if a four-slot G4 were available, it's pretty unlikely that it'd satisfy the Mac users screaming for more slots. To them, six seems to be the bare minimum to qualify as acceptable. Still, it's an improvement, right?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/2/99 episode: September 2, 1999: Supercomputer or not, the G4 has captured the headlines, and nothing the NCSA can say will change that. Meanwhile, rumors about Apple's deliberate crippling of the blue and white G3's upgradeability has indignant Mac users seething, and if you're hurting for slots in Apple's line of pro Macs, the Apple Store has a little surprise for you...
Other scenes from that episode: 1758: You Say Gflops, I Say Tflops (9/2/99) Well, that didn't take long; scant days after Steve Jobs wowed the Seybold crowd by introducing the Power Mac G4 as the first personal "supercomputer," people who work with actual supercomputers are reportedly bristling at Steve's latest marketing move... 1759: The Scandal Returns (9/2/99) Oh boy, here we go... For those of you who are starving for controversy in the Apple world of late, a big ol' hornet's nest has been kicked hard and a nasty rumor from a couple of months ago has resurfaced with a vengeance...
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