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Apple/Adobe Teamup (12/30/97)
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Remember our Steve Jobs Progress Report a week ago, in which we bemoaned the lack of action on Apple's part with respect to retaining its core market of "content creators?" Remember how we particularly bemoaned how we still couldn't "buy a Mac tuned for or bundled with Photoshop?" Well, Mac OS Rumors now reports that Apple and Adobe are planning on releasing a "Media Mac" that essentially provides just that.

The "Media Mac" is rumored to be a Powermac G3 preinstalled with a full suite of Adobe products, including the Holy Trinity of Adobe graphics products: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Pagemaker. In addition, we'd assume that Pagemill/Sitemill, Acrobat, Dimensions, etc. will be included as well. In a separate story, Rumors describes a new Powermac G3 model that will also be introduced at the Expo, which includes a 275 MHz processor and a 75-79 MHz bus speed. That screamer is most likely the model that Apple would use for the "Media Mac," since the target audience is obviously graphics professionals who want the fastest machine possible. A 275 MHz G3, especially with the faster bus speed, will leave any Pentium II machine in the dust-- and assuming that there will be a nice price break on the bundled software, the "Media Mac" could be Apple's best weapon in the fight to stem the influx of NT systems into the graphics world.

What do you think-- are Apple and Adobe higher-ups faithful AtAT viewers? If so, listen up, guys: as cutting-edge content creators, we'd be more than happy to test-drive a "Media Mac" for you. ;-)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 12/30/97 episode:

December 30, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 313: Better Than Reality (12/30/97)   And in another stunning act of prescience, we've been running around telling people that VirtualPC on a Powermac G3 makes for a very workable Windows solution, though we've had nothing to support that claim-- until now...

  • 314: Choose Netscape (12/30/97)   Although not directly related to everyone's favorite legal battle (otherwise known as "Redmond Justice"), we found it noteworthy that Netscape has just launched a new campaign designed to remind Windows customers that they have a choice of browsers...

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