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Leave It To The Pros (7/3/98)
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Rumors continue to fly as to the exact nature and time frame of Apple's upcoming "Pro" G3 Power Macs. We had heard a lot of buzz recently about a six-PCI-slot G3 minitower to be announced at next week's MacWorld Expo, and available shortly thereafter. This rumor has been widely debunked as false by reputable sources from inside Apple, but even as recently as yesterday, Computer Reseller News was still reporting that Apple does indeed plan to "unveil its new six-slot G3" systems at the show.
Now, in most circumstances we'd just dismiss CRN's report as being a little out of date, but then Mac OS Rumors threw in a curve by saying that the rumor of a MacWorld-announced August release of 9600-style six-slot faster G3 systems was "closest to the truth." All that really means is that, in their opinion, it's closer to the truth than the other two rumors they report-- one discussing a late-fall release for a four-slot system, and another claiming immediate availability of the same G3 systems but with 333 and 366 MHz processors. Still, it's interesting that Rumors considers the six-slot box more likely that the four-slot Pro system, which is what we'd been hearing was the "safest bet."
We won't know just what the scoop is until next week, probably at Wednesday's keynote address, but you can bet that your friendly neighborhood AtAT staff plans to get up extra-early to make sure we can get seats for the event. Sorry, we're not equipped to broadcast via cellular link from the keynote itself, but we'll keep you non-attending folks posted as soon as we can.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/3/98 episode: July 3, 1998: Apple's (yawn) cutting more jobs, this time at its Cork plant, as it sells off its PCB operations. Meanwhile, rumors of six-slot pro Power Macs persist, despite word from inside Apple that four's the limit, and Microsoft gets positively upfront about its plan to contaminate Java...
Other scenes from that episode: 828: You Say Goodbye (7/3/98) Hey, it wouldn't be Apple without downsizing, right? Apple's manufacturing plant in Cork, Ireland will trim 150 jobs from its roster, following Apple's sale of its printed circuit board business to Singapore manufacturer Natsteel... 830: Just Decaf, Thanks (7/3/98) For those of you who thought we were kidding when we mentioned that Microsoft had paid off Starbucks to spike the U.S. caffeinated coffee supply with special blandness-inducing drugs intended to bolster the demand for mediocre software like Windows 98, we can only pity your naïveté...
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