As the Apple Turns: Scene 31: Cutting the Gordian Knot (9/28/97)

Cutting the Gordian Knot (9/28/97)

There is a very interesting story posted over at Apple Recon. It speculates on the manner in which POWERtools may be legally shipping those non-Apple-certified G3 boxes tomorrow. Cleverly, it appears that POWERtools (and one other cloner, according to RFI) may simply be buying Newer Technology's MAXpower Pro upgrade cards and installing them into their existing Apple-certified 604e boxes! Simple. Elegant. Kinda sneaky. We dig it. ;-)

Apple Recon goes on to guess about the rumors that some clonemakers are going to ship "clandestine" non-Apple-certified CHRP boxes. Since Mac OS 8.1 (due in a couple of months) is widely rumored to be "ROMless," cloners could simply ship their uncertified CHRP designs, bundled with a boxed retail copy of Mac OS 8.1. Apparently this would be perfectly legal, albeit antagonistic towards Apple (but since when is that news?).

Lastly, the article speculates that the Apple-branded G3 boxes (first expected in early '98, then in 90 days, then in November) might appear as early as next week (though they later amend this to the more conservative and widely-reported November timeframe)! RFI bases this guess on the previously-reported dearth of 9600/350's, which they think indicates that Apple may have received a "windfall" of PPC 750's and may be working hard to rush the 9600/350's successor onto the market. Man, we love speculation!

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The above scene was taken from the 9/28/97 episode:

September 28, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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30: Commercial Success? (9/28/97) The Macintosh Conspiracy had a nice article that made some pretty accurate guesses as to what the new Apple ads are like. It predicted that since the ads were being aired during Toy Story, they most likely would focus on Apple's educational offerings, or the general strengths of the Apple brand, rather than any technical issues like Rhapsody...
32: Deal Me In (9/28/97) Macinsider has an article by an anonymous attendee of the internal Apple dealer meeting last Friday. We think it's worth reading, because it may reaffirm people's faith in Apple's support of the dealer channel...
33: One Week: We Made It! (9/28/97) AtAT sends out hearty thanx to all of our faithful viewers who helped make our first week such a success! Special thanx go out to MacNN, MacCentral, MacMadness, and MacSurfer for linking to us and helping spread the word...

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