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Early on the Set (8/6/98)
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Apparently the supply of Power Mac G3's is drying up faster than Apple ever expected. Whoops! Guess that's what happens when you take a fantabulous product that's already in fairly short supply, stop making any new ones, and then issue price cuts so generous they serve as a great learning example for fledgling home appliance salesmen who need to learn the meaning of the phrase "insanely low prices." Amid widespread reports that Ingram Micro, one of Apple's two distributors in the U.S., is fresh out of any Power Mac G3's whatsoever, the picture looks grim for people in the market for a Power Mac, as the speed-bumped models aren't expected until Seybold early next month...
...But wait! Up in the sky! Faster than a speeding bullet, yadda yadda yadda, here come the speed-bumped G3's, now due to arrive in early-mid-August. (Not to be confused with mid-early-August, which is where we are now.) At least, that's the scoop according to Reality, who reports that the apparent shortage of Power Macs may have forced Apple to bump up the release date to August 11th or 12th-- less than a week from now. So for those of you hoping to buy a Power Mac in the short term, you've got a tough decision to make: will you snap up one of those last 266 MHz A/V minitowers your dealer has for under $2000, or will you opt for one of the new systems, like the 333 MHz minitower complete with 64 MB of RAM, an 8 GB hard drive, video in and out, and a built-in Zip drive all for $2599?
Either way, that's a whole lotta Mac for the buck. Between professionals and gamers jonesing for a new Power Mac and the rest of the universe anxiously awaiting the arrival of the iMac, the remainder of 1998 is shaping up to be a huge sales period for Apple. Now if only they can supply enough units to meet demand...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/6/98 episode: August 6, 1998: As the iMac prepares for its grand entrance from stage left, some new, zippier Macs are ready to make a quiet entrance at roughly the same time. Meanwhile, Microsoft culls a strategy from the kindergarten playbook and enacts the "I saw it first" defense, and rumors of a Kinko's defection to Windows and Microsoft Publisher leave terrified service bureaus cringing in fear...
Other scenes from that episode: 914: Desperate Tactics (8/6/98) The drama of "Redmond Justice II" continues, as Microsoft argues that it had the idea for an Internet browser long before its rival Netscape even existed. Extensive details may be found in a New York Times article. Ignoring for a second whether or not Microsoft did come up with the idea for a browser first, we're not entirely sure we see the logic in this argument anyway... 915: Kinko Defecto Hurto (8/6/98) Several of you wrote in to ask why AtAT hadn't yet addressed what Mac the Knife calls a "key defection" from the Macintosh Way. We speak, of course, of the ubiquitous and once-quirky Kinko's copy shops, and the rumors that they have decided to eliminate all Macs from their service departments over the course of the next couple of years...
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