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Last Month's Chip, Cheap (6/24/03)
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ERRATUM: Yesterday we indicated that the Big, Mysterious Boxes that had been delivered to Apple resellers and retail stores over the course of the past week were found to contain celebratory mimes. We have since been informed that this is not the case, and that they instead contain new, cheaper Power Mac G4 models. We apologize for the error, but we think you'll agree that it was a natural mistake to make, seeing as the average mime bears a striking resemblance to Apple's last Power Mac model, what with both sporting white makeup, black leotards, and mirrored drive doors.
So yeah, this is kind of interesting; Apple finally announced the Power Mac G5 yesterday, but won't actually ship any until August. So does the company just plan to write off any and all potential Power Mac sales until then? Nope. If you sally forth to the Apple Store, try to ignore the Power Mac G5's looming presence for a moment, and scroll waaaay to the bottom, away from all the other hardware, you'll find that the Power Mac G4 does, indeed, live on-- wedged in right under Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. These are the new Power Macs that were apparently arriving in "DO NOT OPEN 'TIL MONDAY" boxes last week, and if you're in the market for a zippy new Power Mac but you either can't wait until August or you're trying to save a few bucks, they may be for you.
For a measly $1299 (that's like, what, three lattés at Starbucks?), you get a 1.25 GHz G4, 256 MB of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive, a RADEON 9000 Pro graphics card, a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, and support for booting into something called "Mac OS 9" (whatever the heck that is). If you need more speed, shell out $300 more and add a second processor and a lot more cache. When you think about it, that's a lot of muscle for the moolah-- maybe not compared to the G5, but you can get one of these right now and save yourself several hundred clams, to boot.
You're still going to wait, aren't you? Ah, we don't blame you. But you're passing up an otherwise good deal...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/24/03 episode: June 24, 2003: The Apple Store's Power Mac graphics continue to go haywire. Meanwhile, the AtAT staff is impressed with its iChat AV test run, and now that everyone's caught G5 fever, Apple tries to sell Power Mac G4s at drastically reduced prices...
Other scenes from that episode: 4033: Every Which Way But Right (6/24/03) Strangeness is afoot! Remember late last Thursday when some poor web lackey over at Apple accidentally posted a wrong image file to the Apple Store and thusly spilled the beans on the Power Mac G5 four days early?... 4034: New-Fangled Video Thingy (6/24/03) Anyone who's been skulking around here for a longish while already knows this, but apparently it bears repeating: sometimes we're kinda slow to "get it." For example, when the iPod first came out, we weren't terribly excited-- but now if you were to attempt something so foolhardy as to pry our iPods from our white-knuckled grasp, you'd better come at us with nothing less lethal than a howitzer strapped to all 96 episodes of "Small Wonder," because otherwise you'd be dead before you hit the floor...
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