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Fashion Comes To Pro-Ville (3/21/01)
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So what's with Apple's long-held belief that only consumers like color choices? Granted, the company's first and only foray into the "colors for pros" area didn't go over too well, what with the Blueberry-and-Ice Power Mac G3 looking more like a Smurf condo than a professional workstation, but surely something more muted like Indigo would have been simply smashing. And even with the blue-and-whites, while iMac customers had the freedom to run wild, it's not like the pros got to pick a hue that best suited their moods and/or environments. It was SmurfMac or nothing.
Ever since the blue-and-white, Apple's professional desktop systems have been Graphite, Ice, and Clear. For years, Apple's PowerBooks were plain ol' black-- and the latest PowerBook G4 is simply sort of silvery-looking, thanks to its titanium enclosure. C'mon, folks, just because Blueberry turned out to be an unfortunate choice for the G3 is no reason to banish the pros to a greyscale world. Nothing against Graphite, of course, which is gorgeous, and maybe it's just the advent of spring that's got us all keyed up for new hues, but we wouldn't mind a little splash of color to spruce up Apple's professional product line. And most importantly, how about some choice?
Well, there's no word on whether we'll ever get to buy a Ruby Power Mac or (dare we say it?) a Flower Power Cube. But Mac OS Rumors has more details on the rumor that the mighty titanium PowerBook may soon give up its monochrome ways. Apple's own web site coyly mentions the fact that titanium is easy to coerce into "a range of colors by anodizing or heating," and rumor has it that's just what the folks in the lab plan to do. When the first PowerBook G4 revision ships sometime allegedly between May and July, the "natural" titanium look will be supplemented with versions in green and blue-- and possibly red, purple, and black, if Apple's gnomes can figure out a way to make those shades look decent.
As Pismo users ourselves, while we lust after the PowerBook G4's titanium goodness, we can't justify a trade-up at this time. However, if we could buy a purple or green one, we'd probably be forced to find a justification that would explain the sudden $2599 hole in our available credit...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/21/01 episode: March 21, 2001: It's still officially three days away, but CNET keeps laying into Mac OS X-- this time for lack of CD-RW support. Meanwhile, word has it that different-colored PowerBooks are on the horizon, and if you thought Intel was the bad guy and Motorola was the good guy, try looking at things from a wireless networking perspective...
Other scenes from that episode: 2937: Might Crash, Won't Burn (3/21/01) Three days and counting-- and wouldn't you know it? CNET continues to complain about Mac OS X's missing features well in advance of the product making it out the door. Not long ago, Those Of The Yellow Sidebar issued a gloomy report focusing on the operating system's 1.0 warts, such as incomplete support for hardware graphics acceleration, performance bottlenecks, crashing problems, and-- horror of horrors-- its inability to play DVD movies... 2939: Knowing Whom To Root For (3/21/01) Ah, this wacky high-tech business world and all its strange bedfellows... you probably thought you knew who the enemies were, didn't you? Microsoft, for one; aside from the obvious fact that Apple represents the forces of good and Microsoft is evil incarnate, from a purely business perspective, Windows is obviously the Mac's biggest competitor for operating system market share...
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