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Artemis: Plastic Surgery (1/3/98)
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MacNN's Reality has some more news on the upcoming "Artemis" Powermacs. Perhaps you recall that Artemis was to be Apple's new low-end, consumer/education model with an all-in-one design similar in concept to the Powermac 5000 series, or its 680x0 precursor the LC 5xx. You may also recall that the unsightly plastic lumps of the prototype units were reportedly so incredibly ugly that they caused immediate involuntary projectile vomiting in approximately 30% of all of those who glimpsed it. And the last we'd heard was that Apple was, wisely, returning to the drawing board.

Reality's latest news is that Artemis may be retooled into a variant of a 6500-type tower case, possibly to be bundled with a separate monitor. Despite killing the all-in-one paradigm, this would be a vast improvement over the original design, which Reality describes as being reminiscent of "one of the pink bug-eyed things you kill in Super Mario Brothers 2--" a description which makes Reality just that much cooler.

Of course, all of this is secondary to the performance of the machine itself, which is apparently excellent. (It should be, given the 233-266 MHz G3 at its core.) But if Apple didn't concern itself with aesthetics and human response, it wouldn't be Apple, now, would it?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/3/98 episode:

January 3, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 324: Jobs: The Ego Thing (1/3/98)   Remember those rumors a couple of months ago that Steve Jobs was so incredibly frustrated with trying to save Apple that he was thinking of quitting? Some rumors went so far as to say that Steve had been clearing out his desk when Larry Ellison persuaded him to stay...

  • 326: Mac-rosoft Shipping (1/3/98)   It's been a while since Microsoft announced that they were adding a slew of Mac programmers to do things right-- no more half-assed ports like Word 6.0 for the Mac, which may go down in history as the bloated, slow, and buggy software joke of the decade...

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