chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/05/88)
For Macintosh watchers, there's an interesting article in the June 13 Forbes
magazine (hard to miss. The cover is about "The D-RAM crisis" and is truly
ugly...)
Inside, it mentions some really interesting things. Among them:
o That Sculley and Scott McNealy (Chief God here at Sun) may get together
with some other computer manufacturers and start turning out their own
D-Rams.
o That because of the D-ram shortage, the Mac-SE upgrade won't happen this
year [taking the SE to a 2Meg minimum configuration, plus color support
according to my rumors]
o That the Mac laptop is delayed.
There are a number of cute factual glitches (not unusual with Forbes in
High-tech stuff):
o The SE upgrade is called "long-awaited" -- the SE hasn't been around long
enough to need a "long-awaited" upgrade!
o Hypercard is called "the Macintosh 2's personal database program" (my Mac
was really annoyed to find out that HyperCard wouldn't run on it
anymore...)
Considering that Apple never talks about un-released products, I wonder how
Forbes could not only find out about the SE Upgrade and the Laptop, but how
it could definitively find out that they were delayed. I think that what
they say makes a lot of sense considering the Ram shortage, but to purport
it to be fact?
Anyway, those of you waiting for the Laguna Laptop, be prepared to wait a
while longer. Forbes has so decreed, so it must be.
(Apple, wanna comment on this? No, I didn't think so, but it's worth a shot)
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