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My Kingdom for a G3 (1/24/98)
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Of course, if you actually want to buy a G3 system instead of just drooling over its specs, you might have a harder time than you bargained for. MacInTouch says that many readers are reporting "availability problems" that are making Powermac G3's the "Sing 'n' Snore Ernie" of the computer world.
Hey... wait a minute... the Macs that are most in demand are the hardest to find. Does that sound familiar to you? Like, for instance, the Apple of yore, who consistently had warehouses full of dorky Performas while people were stabbing each other in the eyes in the mad rush to grab that last 8600? You remember, the Apple who couldn't forecast its way out of a paper bag and who was so pathetically out of touch with what its customers wanted? The Apple who supposedly fixed that problem with Build-to-Order at the Apple Store? Nahhhh... Must just be déjà vu.
Okay, so were being a little harsh; Apple's forecasting problem does seem to have improved slightly, but this report shows there's still an uphill battle ahead (and those of you cool enough to be playing Myth know that uphill battles usually just end with the limbs, heads, and torsos of your own units strewn all over the hillside by the Molotov cocktails of your own dwarves). By the way, if anyone wants to trade their G3 system for a "Sing 'n' Snore Ernie," drop us a line. The little guy's cute, sure, and we'd hate to see him go-- but horsepower comes first. Sorry, Ern, them's the breaks.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/24/98 episode: January 24, 1998: After the mysterious disappearance of Apple's high-end PowerExpress, the world awaits its powerful replacement with bated breath. Meanwhile, the starving masses trample women and children underfoot as they scramble to grab any G3 systems they can scrounge, while Netscape exits the stressful Java-development business amid much consternation and gnashing of teeth...
Other scenes from that episode: 387: ...But Not High Enough (1/24/98) Now that, by all reasonably believable accounts, Apple's PowerExpress project has been killed, folks are still waiting to see what G3-based systems will step in to stake their claim on the high end of the Mac lineup... 389: Netscape Goes Decaf (1/24/98) Hands up, who here remembers Netscape? They used to be pretty well known for their web browser, you know, before Microsoft's Internet Explorer got up to speed. Well, anyway, apparently a few people still use their browser, so it may interest you to know that Netscape is drastically reducing their Java development in an effort to reduce costs, following their recent shambles of a financial quarter...
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