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It's an NC/It's a Mac (10/6/97)
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Our hero Mac the Knife is reporting that the Apple NC's, due to premiere at the January Expo and to ship shortly thereafter, are a little more Mac than strict NC. The latest buzz is that the boxes will sport a zippy 300 MHz PPC 750 and will take up to 100MB of RAM, far more than an average NC. They will also have expansion slots. Most importantly, some models will even take a hard drive, which until now has been strictly verboten in the net-centric NC world; the NC paradigm generally relies upon diskless boxes accessing all storage over the net from a central server.

So think about it: The Mac NC's will run Mac OS 8. Most users don't need more than 100MB of RAM. With the presence of a hard disk and expansion slots, the Apple NC is sounding more and more like a dreamy desktop Mac. $800 for a 300 MHz 750, anyone? ;-)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/6/97 episode:

October 6, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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