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Blue-&-White-Light Special (9/7/99)
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Silly us; here we figured that now that the Power Mac G4 has been announced (with "immediate" availability, no less), it might be easy for us to pick up a blue and white G3 for a song. Nobody knows better than our faithful viewers that AtAT could use a new server from which to broadcast our happy little show, especially after that roller coaster ride last week. Server up, server down, server up... well, okay, mostly server down. A brand-spankin'-new G3, we figured, is just what the doctor ordered. ("Why not just get a G4?" you ask. Whaddaya think, we're made of money? Besides, it'd be a crime to throw that gorgeous clear-and-silver-and-graphite case into a server rack where no one's ever going to see it.)
And yet, even though the whole world's gone ga-ga over the G4's hip new colors, "supercomputer" power, and fabulous new buzzwords like "Velocity Engine," sadly, prices on the G3s just aren't falling nearly fast enough to make our bank balance happy. Whereas a new G4/400 only costs $1599, the best price we've yet found on a G3 is a January-era 300 MHz model for $1299. That's not exactly what we'd call a "fire sale." It's more like an "uncomfortably warm and humid sale."
We suppose we should just give it a little more time; as far as we know, the low-end G4s aren't really shipping yet, so maybe reduced G3 demand hasn't trickled down to the bottom line just yet. According to MacCentral, G4 pre-orders are "through the roof," while the G3s just aren't moving out the door, despite Apple's "free printer or 128 MB of RAM" promotion. So once all those resellers want to stock their shelves with newly-available G4s, they're going to have to cut some pretty attractive deals to make room by unloading all that blue and white. At least, we sincerely hope so... Baby needs a new G3.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/7/99 episode: September 7, 1999: If everyone wants a new G4, how come prices on the blue G3s haven't dropped through the floor yet? Meanwhile, Mac OS 9 has still more troubles to overcome on its way to release, and Apple's stock keeps doing that "up" thing, despite the longstanding tradition of Wall Street skepticism as far our fave computer company is concerned...
Other scenes from that episode: 1765: Paying Some Heavy Dues (9/7/99) Geez, it seems like Mac OS 9 is the operating system at the bottom of the karma wheel-- the poor little OS just can't seem to catch a break. In fact, given the sheer number of irritating little annoyances cropping up, we hate to guess what heinous crimes Mac OS 9 must have committed prior to its incipient incarnation... 1766: As If It Were Apple.com (9/7/99) Another day, another analyst upgrade, another record for Apple's stock. It's almost getting boring, isn't it? For instance, after AAPL closed at a new all-time high last Friday, analysts William Shope and Charlie Wolf of Warburg Dillon Read found themselves compelled to raise their price target...
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