This is a first for IOM...........a standard built in Zip in a machine that does not have a floppy but only a cd-rom......the Zip is the standard on this machine........it's a first and hopefully the first of many, thank you Steve Jobs and Apple for having the courage and foesight to initiate change.
Zip Replaces floppy on new Apple G3 Configuration
From the Appleinsider AppleInsider- Yosemite Power Macintosh Configurations!
>>>> Yosemite Power Macintosh Configurations!
By AppleInsider Staff (AppleInsider@AppleInsider.com)
December 24, 1998
Apple Computer, Inc, as a whole, officially went on leave for their 10 day holiday recess late last night. Mostly all operations at Apple's offices will halt until the date of January 4th; immediately thereafter all focus will be placed on the kick-off of Macworld San Francisco 99. The relevance? Just before the doors slammed shut at Apple's Cupertino, California based headquarters, hundreds of retail configuration and pricing sheets for the new
Power Macintosh G3 systems were Fed-Exed to resellers world wide.
While AppleInsider has yet to get their paws on a genuine copy of the Yosemite retail pricing lists for the United States, sources lent a helping hand with the finalized configuration sheets already presented to them thus far.
Retail Configurations
Apparently Apple has designated 4 retail configurations for the new Yosemite Power Macintosh G3s, as of last Friday. Of course this could change in a moments notice as we all witnessed in early September with the "Silk" revision to the Power Macintosh G3 line. But for now, here we go!
300MHz Configuration
Doing much to confirm our previous reports over the past few months, sources said the low-end Yosemite configuration will ring in with a 300MHz Processor and a 512K level 2 backside cache. Additionally this model will pack 64MB of RAM, a 6 GByte IDE hard drive, and a 24X CD-ROM drive, sources said.
350MHz Configurations
Stepping up the ladder, Apple will market two 350MHz retail configurations of the Yosemite Power Macintosh G3, both with a 1MB backside cache, sources said. One configuration will be Apple's sole DVD solution, sporting 64MB of RAM, a 6GByte IDE drive, and of course an Apple DVD-ROM drive.
A second 350MHz configuration will come packed with a 12GByte IDE hard drive, a 24X CD-ROM, 128MB of RAM, and*********** a built in Iomega Zip Drive******************.
400MHz Configuration
Apple's top-of-the-line retail configuration will boast a 400MHz G3 processor with a 1MB backside cache, 128MB of RAM, and a 24X CD-ROM. The 400MHz configuration will be Apple's SCSI solution featuring dual 9.1 GByte Ultra Wide drives via a standard SCSI PCI card.
Standard Specs
Each configurations will come jam packed with a total of 16MB of SGRAM (video RAM), yes that is 16, count them; compliments of the extremely high performance ATI Rage GL Pro chipset standard on all configurations. The ATI Rage card will also perform MPEG2 decoding for DVD Video on those units complete with a DVD drive."
All configurations will of course ship with a 100MHz system bus, on-board FireWire (2 ports), 4 DIMM slots, 3 64bit 33MHz PCI slots, 1 32bit 66MHz slot containing the ATI Rage LG 128 graphics chip, 1 ADB port, 2 USB ports, built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet connector (RJ-45), an Infrared technology port (4-Mbps IrDA), Audio in and Out, an "awesome" translucent usb mouse and keyboard, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Official Pricing?
Pricing on the new models appears to run from $1600 to about $3000, but AppleInsider is waiting for official confirmation before we begin plastering price tags next to configurations. We hope to have an update with official pricing, and any changes to the US configurations by mid-day, so keep your browsers pointed to www.appleinsider.com. And don't forget, you heard it first, because you heard it here =) <<<<
Frank
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