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Merry Christmas After All (9/27/97)
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As if in response to our wonderings yesterday, MacWeek tells us that the new Gossamer PowerMacs should be debuting in November just in time for the Christmas season, which has us jumping for joy at AtAT. (We had posted this earlier today in a News Flash.) It gets better, though-- the new mid-range systems will feature PPC 750's running at 250 and 266 MHz, a 66 MHz system bus (finally!), 512K of cache running at a 2:1 processor speed ratio, faster SDRAM, and support for Apple's new personality cards, all while costing in the $2000-$3000 range. Oh, our cup runneth over.

And those are the midrange models. The new high-end series, code-named Power Express, will be available in early 1998 and will feature faster processors, faster hard disks (ultra SCSI instead of IDE), bigger and faster cache, and more PCI slots.

Keep saving them nickels! But for a little perspective, keep in mind that if the cloners had been allowed to ship their own 750 models, we'd have even faster machines (the PowerTower Pro G3 had a 275 MHz chip, for example), and we'd have them now. Okay, okay, we'll shut up now... To quote Space Ghost, "You're bringin' me down, man!"

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/27/97 episode:

September 27, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 28: Powering Down... (9/27/97)   The troubles continue for beleagured computer manufacturer Power Computing. (Thought we were going to say "Apple," didn'tcha?) The Austin American-Statesman has an interesting story about PCC selling off its 154 acres of Georgetown, TX land and closing its manufacturing plant...

  • 29: "A MAC?! You're Crazy!" (9/27/97)   If you've ever gone to a large-chain computer store like Circuit City or CompUSA looking for a new Mac, you already know what Apple's just found out: the salespeople try their darnedest to steer you away from Macs and towards the Wintel offerings...

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