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iPups Need Good Homes (7/6/98)
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Remember how Apple plans to ship some 600,000 iMacs by Christmas? That's got Don Crabb wondering just where all those funky blue gumdrops are going to come from. Sure, Apple's Laguna West facility is hiring extra staff and claims to be able to produce 400,000 by year's end, and the Cork and Singapore plants should be able to crank out the remaining 200,000 primarily for the overseas markets, but can they do it and still produce enough standard Power Macs too?
That little puzzler reportedly has Apple re-evaluating its stance on Mac cloning. According to Don, Apple's cozying back up to Motorola and Umax about the possibility of them building and selling licensed iMac clones. However, our own inimitable sources claim otherwise: Don's right about the presence of "cloning" in Apple's iMac rollout, but he's not thinking literally enough...
See, what Don doesn't realize is that all the talk of the iMac's manufacturing process is a smokescreen. The iMac is, in reality, a living organism, genetically engineered from alien organic material. (I mean, just look at the thing, for crying out Pete's sake.) The iMac prototypes were the result of countless hours spent in Apple's top-secret genetic labs, and the 100 or so "preproduction models" to be shown at the Expo are modified clones. You see where this is going, don't you? Production iMacs won't be manufactured; they'll be bred. In fact, rumor has it that if you leave two "breeder" iMacs in a dark room overnight with the X-Files theme song repeating on the stereo, you'll find a third, sterile "production" iMac joining them in the morning. (Okay, so you think this is far-fetched, but is it really that much less believable than the prospect of Motorola-branded iMacs?)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/6/98 episode: July 6, 1998: So what, exactly, will take the place of Apple's 300 MHz Power Mac G3, which was quietly discontinued today? Meanwhile, the possibility of iMac clones is closer to the real truth than you might expect, and Disney gets its Blast site up to Mac speed just in time for the Expo...
Other scenes from that episode: 834: Waiting for Santa (7/6/98) All kinds of rumors have been flying recently about what kind of high(er)-end G3 systems Apple has up its sleeve, ready to unveil at this week's Expo. 333-400 MHz processors in existing Gossamer-based G3 systems?... 836: The Disney Connection (7/6/98) Ahhh, the Disney Connection. Rumors have been flying for months now about some kind of deal between Apple and Disney, but the nature of that alleged deal is anyone's guess. Most people agree that it's not a buyout, but beyond that things are pretty hazy...
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