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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!news
- From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
- Subject: Re: new high-end Macs?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.063017.2317@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Ifi, University of Trondheim / AVH
- References: <7182@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:30:17 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <7182@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- writes:
- >Has anyone heard anything about any high-end Macs that we might see before the
- >PowerPC? For reasons unknown to me, my department doesn't think a Quadra 950
- is
- >enough machine for me, but I can probably count on getting the next high-end
- >Mac released. Will I have to wait until 1994 for the first PowerPC or is there
- >going to be some other high-end Mac before then?
- >
- >David Gutierrez
- >drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
- >
- >"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
- >
- According to the English version of MacUser (24/7-92) there will
- be a new high-end machine (codenamed Cyclone) in the spring
- of '93. (Rumours, rumoursâ•”)
-
- 50 MHz 68040
- 2 MB ROMs
- QuickTime
- QuickDraw GX
- Casper voice recognition
- Built ins:
- DSP (Digital Signal Processor) for CD-quality stereo sound
- 9600 baud fax send/receive
- Digital and analogue video I/O (works with RGB, NTSC, PAL, SECAM)
- Ethernet
- 3 NuBus slots
- Full SCSI-2 implementation
-
-
- >For reasons unknown to me, my department doesn't think a Quadra 950 is
- >enough machine for me.
-
- They probably don't know either. I don't know the alternatives but after all
- the '950 is faster than any of the 50 MHz '486 machines out there.
-
-
- Terje Rydland
-