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Blazing Desktops (3/16/98)
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Actually, though, we can't be sure that Wall Street will really be the fastest shipping Mac-- at least, not now that Apple's added a new "workstation-class" Powermac G3 to its price list. According to MacNN, the new minitower showed up over the weekend, sporting a 300 MHz G3 processor, a full megabyte of backside L2 cache, 128 MB of RAM, two 4 GB drives connected to an ultra-wide SCSI card, a 24x CD-ROM drive, an ix3D Ultimate Rez 8 MB graphics card, and built-in 10/100 Ethernet. If you've got the cash, you can grab a whole lot of Mac for $4899.

Last we checked this new MegaMac hadn't yet shown up at the Apple Store, probably because Steve Jobs plans to unveil it officially at Seybold tomorrow. (It is, after all, a content creator's dream.) Still, various sources confirm that it is on the official price list, and we expect to see it show up online tomorrow after the big speech.

The only thing that worries us is that if the G3 300 showed up on price lists over the weekend in preparation for the big unveiling tomorrow, does the fact that Wall Street and Main Street did not appear imply that they won't be available this week after all? If so, then Apple's going to have a big gap in its Powerbook line for longer than might be advisable...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 3/16/98 episode:

March 16, 1998: Tales of Wall Street's mighty speed continue to shock and amaze all who hear them. Meanwhile, a speedy new minitower joins Apple's lineup, and a crafty nature photographer captures the only known photo of Artemis in the wild...

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 540: Prepare for Reckoning (3/16/98)   Despite the discontinuance of most of Apple's Powerbook lineup this weekend, the new Wall Street and Main Street lines (and the speed-bumped 2400, code-named Mighty Cat) failed to materialize today. That's not too surprising, since Steve Jobs is giving his much-ballyhooed Seybold Keynote address tomorrow morning, and what better time to introduce nifty new hardware?...

  • 542: Artemis Unveiled (3/16/98)   Okay, so between Wall Street and the G3 300, Apple's got the high end covered. Will they continue to ignore the low end, which is the fastest-growing market for personal computers? Yes, there's the NC project, which Apple has yet to formally acknowledge...

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