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The Curves of Wall Street (4/11/98)
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Whatever happened to Wall Street? Many of us have been waiting for it for the better part of a year, some even longer. Apparently our sources who told us back in March that we wouldn't see the new Powerbooks until May were quite correct. Reasons given for the delay were varied, but there were two that were the most common. The first was a lack of parts with which to build them. The second was less mundane; some report that Apple's holding off on releasing this killer hardware in order to guarantee increased Q3 revenues, in an attempt to show sustainable and growing profits three quarters in a row. But for whatever reason, we're denied the giddy thrill of using these ultrafast Powerbooks until probably next month.
That doesn't mean, however, that we can't drool over illicit photos of them. You've probably already seen the widely-published photo taken from the front left with the lid open, but beautiful as that image is, it doesn't fully convey the gorgeous lines of the new model. Enter Reality, with a slew of new photos showing virtually every side, angle, and facet of Wall Street in all its glory. The top and bottom shots reveal an impossibly sleek design worthy of some next-millennium spacecraft, while the photo of the ports on the back shows the S-video port clear as day.
We at AtAT have zero doubt that this design will sell. A lot. If the rumors are true that a low-end configuration of this model will start at $1999, we can virtually guarantee that Apple won't be able to build them as fast as they'd sell them. We hope this release delay is in fact Apple ramping up production so they don't get caught with no inventory, as has happened continually in the past.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/11/98 episode: April 11, 1998: According to one publication, Uncle Steve managed to alienate pretty much the entire broadcasting community in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, scandalous new photos of the Wall Street Powerbooks are circulating in the seedier online communities, and Rhapsody will don a Mac OS disguise starting in 1999...
Other scenes from that episode: 617: That Whole NAB Thing (4/11/98) While some Apple-watchers may have been impressed and gratified to see Steve Jobs' NAB keynote last week, apparently that sentiment was largely absent among NAB executives and members. Faithful viewer Allen Denette was kind enough to tell us to look up last Thursday's issue of "Communications Daily," which was less than kind to Uncle Steve's Travelling Quicktime Show... 619: The Future Is Rhapsody (4/11/98) Your friendly AtAT staff were among the thousands of outraged Apple-watchers who were incredulous to hear that the next-generation Rhapsody OS was being positioned strongly as a server operating system, not as a user OS...
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