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The Other Wall Street (2/21/98)
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Despite the fact that it's not going to surface for another three months or so, people in the know are getting all worked up about Apple's new high-end Powerbook, code-named Wall Street. When we saw that Mac the Knife's intern Brett was reporting that Wall Street would have a colored plastic case (similar in concept to the eMate), we headed over to O'Grady's PowerPage for the latest scoop on this intriguing new portable. What we found there, frankly, staggered us. (For the most complete coverage of All Things Powerbook, we can't recommend O'Grady's PowerPage highly enough.)
According to the PowerPage, not only will the case be made of two different materials (which lends credence to the "colored case" rumor), but Wall Street's list of specifications make it sound like something out of Star Trek. What other laptop, made by Apple or any other entity, has SVHS video-out capability? Or 4 MB of VRAM, to generate 24-bit color on a 1024x768 screen? Or a processor-upgradeable CPU daughtercard? Powerbook lovers also finally get two memory expansion slots instead of just one, and a feature we haven't seen since the ill-fated iMediaEngine: a removable keyboard. You want speed? Wall Street's top-of-the-line 292 MHz version benchmarks at twice the speed of the current Powerbook G3, presumably due primarily to its 83 MHz bus speed and improvements to its memory subsystems.
It's nice to hear that Apple's not content with just having the world's fastest laptop-- it's really going for the throat on this one. We haven't heard any rumors about why this super-cool new Powerbook's been code-named Wall Street, though; any ideas? Perhaps you have to be a Wall Street tycoon to afford one? ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/21/98 episode: February 21, 1998: Rhapsody resurfaces in a speedy new incarnation, and prepares to take the Mac-using world into the next millennium. Meanwhile, the Justice Department quietly subpoenas several ISP's regarding Microsoft's possible monopolistic no-no's, and Apple's new Powerbook, though three months from being unleashed, already has people drooling on their shirts...
Other scenes from that episode: 471: Trailblazing the Future (2/21/98) Ever since last summer, Apple's been trying hard to get the Mac-using world excited about the Mac OS again; and that's a great idea, since the Mac OS is what most Mac users will continue to use for years to come... 472: Dragged Into Court (2/21/98) It's been a couple of weeks since the last episode of Redmond Justice, but truth be told, the set's been pretty quiet recently. Today we saw a small blip on the radar, though, as the Department of Justice subpoenaed several internet service providers, including bigwigs AOL and MCI, in its ongoing investigation of possible antitrust practices by Microsoft in its positioning of Internet Explorer...
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