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Those sneaky guys at MacOS Rumors managed to get a hold of some very intriguing information about the new "Gossamer" series Macs. The "Outrigger" model sports a 233 MHz PPC 750 chip, 32 MB of SDRAM, 3 PCI slots, a 4GB IDE hard drive, and 3 RAM slots for the low, low price of $1650. If Apple actually releases this system in time for the Christmas buying season, and the specs and price remain similar to what the Rumors staff is reporting, it could be a very merry Christmas indeed.

But wait, that's not all! There's an all-in-one version, code-named "Rainmaker," and the "Outrigger" models, that have chips ranging between 233 and 300 MHz and will be available in a standard 7300-style desktop enclosure, a minitower design code-named "K1," and the 9600-style "K2" tower. Now howmuch would you pay? $10,000? $20,000? No! You pay only $1650-$2400, depending on configuration! Call now!

What we found most interesting, though, was their statement that the PPC 750 chip itself is the size of a pinky fingernail. Yow!! Compare that to the monster 604e in our PowerTower, which is roughly the size of a Buick sedan. Man, we love technology. ;-)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/7/97 episode:

October 7, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 60: Mike Dell: "Mmrreeow!" (10/7/97)   By now you've probably read what Michael Dell (of Dell Computer) said when asked what he'd do if he were in charge of Apple: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."...

  • 62: Waiter, Is This Decaf? (10/7/97)   Man, Microsoft can't seem to stay out of trouble. Webintosh reports that Billy and company are being sued by Sun Microsystems for spiking their Java. Sun envisioned Java as a true cross-platform development language; programmers who write software using Java are supposed to be able to deploy that software on any platform...

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