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- New Macintosh Quadra 800 Delivers Quadra Power for Less
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- Contact:
- Betty Taylor
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408-974-3983
- or
- Pat Kinley
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408-974-2589
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- Apple's New Macintosh Quadra 800 Delivers Quadra Power for Less
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- MACWORLD, TOKYO--February 9, 1993--Apple Computer, Inc. today
- introduced a new member of its highest performance line of computers,
- the Apple Macintosh Quadra 800. As the most affordable Macintosh
- Quadra ever, the Quadra 800 delivers more than a 30 percent increase
- in performance over the current entry-level Macintosh Quadra 700, and
- does so with greater functionality.
- The Quadra 800 is powered by a 33MHz Motorola 68040 microprocessor.
- Featuring a new mini-tower industrial design, the Quadra 800 is
- highly expandable and is equally at home on the desktop or at the
- deskside. With a U.S. suggested retail price of $4,679, the Quadra
- 800 becomes the lowest cost member of the high-performance Macintosh
- line, while offering increased performance, built-in capabilities and
- expansion options for the most demanding personal computer customers.
- "We believe the Quadra 800 delivers the key improvements requested by
- Quadra 700 users--more expansion slots, better RAM expansion, access
- to 5.25-inch devices, higher levels of performance, and a lower entry
- price," said Eric Harslem, vice president of Apple's Desktop Products
- division. "With its built-in features and performance capabilities
- that equal those of the Quadra 950, the Quadra 800 offers a superior
- high-speed graphical computing solution and is able to handle the
- most intensive computing tasks--especially in production-level
- computing environments for publishing and graphics professionals."
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- Integration and Speed
- The Quadra 800's performance is the result of balanced system
- integration; specifically, newly developed memory and video
- subsystems. The Quadra 800 employs sophisticated engineering that
- reduces the number of application specific integrated circuits
- (ASICs) on the logic board from 10 to three, which in turn gives
- Apple the opportunity to provide its customers with lower pricing.
- The Quadra 800 features accelerated graphics capabilities made
- possible because its video subsystem is directly connected to the
- 68040 processor bus. This enables data to travel at high speeds
- between the processor and the graphics system. As with all Quadras,
- the 800 supports all Apple displays. It offers up to 1MB of VRAM for
- rendering up to 32,768 colors on displays up to 16-inches and 256
- colors on 21-inch displays. The Quadra 800 also automatically senses
- which monitor is connected and will configure the monitor to display
- the proper resolution and color depth. In addition, the video
- architecture supports most VGA and SVGA monitors.
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- Expandability
- The Quadra 800 also offers a wide range of standard features and
- expandability, including 8MB of DRAM expandable to 136MB of
- interleaved memory. Users can increase the performance of the Quadra
- 800 by 5 to 10 percent by interleaving the memory or logically
- treating two banks of memory as one. Hard disk options include
- 230MB, 500MB and 1GB drives.
- The Quadra 800 has three high-speed, 32-bit NuBus slots and one
- processor direct slot (PDS). The new mini-tower product design
- provides three standard expansion bays, including one 5.25-inch bay
- for an internal CD ROM or other removable device, such as a magneto-
- optical or SyQuest drive. It also incorporates two 3.5-inch bays for
- hard drives or removable media and one additional bay for an Apple
- 1.44MB SuperDrive.
- With an optional high-speed internal CD300i CD-ROM drive, full stereo
- sound-out and mono sound-in, the Quadra 800 makes a premier media-
- authoring station. A 32-bit direct memory access (DMA) Ethernet
- controller is a standard on-board feature. Flexible connections for
- thick or thin coax and twisted pair cabling are available at
- affordable prices.
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- Pricing and Availability
- The Quadra 800 will be offered worldwide through authorized Apple
- resellers. Pricing and availability may vary outside the United
- States. U.S. suggested retail prices are as follows:
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- Configurations U.S. SRP Availability
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- Macintosh Quadra 800
- Quadra 800, 8MB/230 HD, Ethernet $4,679 Immediate
- Quadra 800, 8MB/500 HD, Ethernet $5,429 Immediate
- Quadra 800, 8MB/500 HD, CD, Ethernet,
- 1MB VRAM $5,829 Immediate
- Quadra 800, 8MB/1000HD, Ethernet, 1MB VRAM $6,399 Immediate
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- Macintosh Quadra VRAM Expansion Kit $159 Immediate
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- Macintosh Quadra 950 New U.S. SRP Previous %change
- Quadra 950 8MB/SuperDrive $5,609 $6,539 -14%
- Quadra 950 8MB/230HD $6,099 $7,359 -17%
- Quadra 950 8MB/500HD $6,849 N/A
- Quadra 950 16MB/1000HD $8,149 N/A
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- Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks; and
- Macintosh Quadra and SuperDrive are trademarks of Apple Computer,
- Inc.
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