As the Apple Turns: Scene 487: Too Fast to Live (2/26/98)

Too Fast to Live (2/26/98)

In a quick blast of happy news, O'Grady's PowerPage continues its "Wall Street Week" with a MacBench 4.0 speed comparison of Apple's upcoming top-of-the-line laptop with other high-end Macs. The results will make your knees buckle: a 292 MHz Wall Street broke the four-digit barrier, scoring a 1023. That's faster than Apple's current fastest desktop offering, the Powermac G3 266, which scores a 900. Yup, this Powerbook is the fastest Mac on the planet.

Now, we've heard varying reports as to when Wall Street's actually going to ship, but many sources are saying the fastest model won't surface until April. By the time it reaches buyers, there could conceivably be a new Powermac G3 300 or something like that which will reclaim the speed crown. (Does anybody know for sure what these new Macs are that will be introduced this weekend?) Until then, though, the pre-release Wall Streets are king of the hill.

That's a strange position to be in: laptops are generally assumed to be considerably slower than their desktop counterparts, due to trade-offs in power consumption, heat output, physical size, etc. That makes Wall Street the Bizarro Laptop: "Wall Street is faster than desktop computer! Me so happy! Me cry now!"

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The above scene was taken from the 2/26/98 episode:

February 26, 1998: Another promising Mac site ends its short existence on the Mac webscape, amid scandal and uproar. Meanwhile, Apple's new Powerbook smokes every other laptop out there-- and every desktop Mac, too; and Apple's stock continues its slow climb, as its short interest drops drastically since last month (whatever the heck that means)...

Other scenes from that episode:

486: Reality Bites (the Dust) (2/26/98) In recent months, MacNN Reality has grown to become one of AtAT's favorite Mac websites. However, much of their appeal arose from their posting of "sensitive" news, and we've been growing increasingly concerned recently that Reality could get shut down by, say, Apple's legal department...
488: The Other Other Wall St. (2/26/98) If you've been tuning in to AtAT for any length of time now, you're very aware that when it comes to the stock market, we haven't a clue. Business finance just isn't our thing; frankly, the whole subject bores us to tears...

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