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NC's Are Coming (1/10/98)
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Thanks to Larry "Blabbermouth" Ellison, without whom our writers would probably starve, the Apple NC project has been confirmed yet again. The project's complete invisibility during the just-ended MacWorld Expo led some to believe that the whole thing had been scrapped, but on Friday our good friend Larry assured us all that the Apple-branded, low-cost, Mac OS-based network computers will indeed appear later this year. Cnet has the details of his most recent loose-lips episode at the Consumer Electronic Show.
The current plan, according to Larry, is that the first Apple NC's will indeed run the Mac OS and will, in fact, be targeted at the education and home markets (so they have not been retargeted at the business realm, as Mac the Knife had hinted). And in a widely-reported break from the "pure" NC concept, the NC's will come with an optional hard disk. There's no real news there, but it's nice to get a confirmation that the project is still alive.
It's also interesting to hear that Larry's been warned about his gift for gab in the past: "I could get myself in trouble for saying this... if I say any more, I'll get more email from my best friend." C'mon, Larry, what's life without a little danger? Granted, a tongue-lashing from Steve Jobs has been documented as potentially fatal, but where's the fun in keeping mum?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/10/98 episode: January 10, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 345: Continuing Profit (1/10/98) We've gotten a lot of viewer mail from Apple-watchers who were more than a little disappointed to hear that Apple's about-to-be-posted $45 million Q1 profit was partly the result of a slush fund set up in the previous quarter... 347: Power Express RIP (1/10/98) The rumors have been confirmed (or at least as "confirmed" as anything you read in MacWeek)-- Apple's new high-end Macs, code-named PowerExpress, are dead in the water. MacWeek reports that Apple pulled the plug on the beefy six-slot powerhouses because the existing G3 systems are handling the needs of the high-end users pretty darn well-- or, rather, they will, with some new options that Apple's making available. The PowerExpress was custom-designed for digital video producers, but Apple thinks that a revised Power Mac G3 (with a 300 MHz processor, 1MB of backside cache, tons of RAM, and Wide Ultra SCSI) will fill those needs quite nicely...
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