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Artemis Unveiled (3/16/98)
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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. There's also this new thingy people are calling the AMP, which may or may not be a consumer-level entertainment device for families who don't want to buy "real" computers-- but Apple's even less likely to talk about that anytime soon. No, the biggest hope for Apple's chances in the home market is Artemis, the Power Macintosh G3 Home, which still hasn't been officially announced, but may ship as early as next month.
No one's really been concerned about Artemis' butt-kicking specs; a 200 MHz G3, 32 MB of RAM, a 2 GB hard disk, a 24x CD-ROM, and 3 PCI slots all integrated with a 15" monitor for $999 sounds like a sure winner. One of the few things that could keep it from succeeding, however, was its butt-ugly case. It's since been redesigned at least a couple of times, and Reality has what finally appears to be an actual photograph of the case to be used long-awaited consumer G3 system. (It's not exactly right, apparently, as the final case is said to be rounder, but it's pretty darn close.)
We're glad to see that it's a pretty clean design; in fact, it reminds us a lot of the Color Classic case, scaled up to accept a 15" display and a CD-ROM drive. Our European readers will be glad to notice the tilt-and-swivel base underneath, which is a requirement for all displays sold in Europe, we're told. And the functionality of the design is excellent-- the front lower panel slides out like a desk drawer, allowing easy access to the machine's guts without having to crawl around behind the desk. Kudos to the designers-- one of these will look great in our kitchen.
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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?... 541: Blazing Desktops (3/16/98) 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...
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