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UMAX Leash Loosened (12/6/97)
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Mac the Knife may be only marginally more comprehensible than, say, James Joyce on a bad day, but he does dish the good dirt. Of particular interest in this week's installment is the news that Apple has lifted some of the weight from UMAX's cloning restrictions, thus resulting in new G3-based clones this January.

At the height of the Clone Wars, Apple announced that it would not certify any G3-based clone designs, thus killing the Power Computing PowerTower Pro G3 and the Motorola StarMax 6000 before they could even ship out of the factories. This loosening of the reins allows UMAX to ship new versions of the S900 and J700 clones with the speedy PPC 750 at the center of it all. These will supposedly be Apple-certified G3 designs, differing from the PowerTools G3 clones currently available (which are Apple-certified 604e-based systems with an Apple-certified G3 upgrade card preinstalled).

By the way, if any of you faithful viewers are still puttering along on first-generation Powermacs (meaning, a 6100/7100/8100), you should be interested in the Knife's revelation that Newer Technologies is planning a G3 upgrade for your Mac. While they'll only run at 180 or 200 MHz, that's a lot of extra speed for the supposed $500 price tag.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 12/6/97 episode:

December 6, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 244: Stocking Stuffers (12/6/97)   Still looking for the perfect gift for the Machead in your life? Well, if you wait another week, Apple's rewarding procrastinators with a round of price cuts on December 13th, according to Macintouch...

  • 246: Communication Breakdown (12/6/97)   Suddenly Microsoft software doesn't seem like a very good value for colleges and universities. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Microsoft has just killed its concurrent-use licensing policy, moving entirely to a per-computer licensing system...

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