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To: J R KARY who wrote (14399)	6/8/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

MacOS Rumors (Summer ?) dream Dream Machine: MOSR's exploration of the ultimate Drool Magnet. Imagine, if you will, the ultimate Mac, as it will be (or so we hope) in six months: Hardware 550MHz copper PowerPC 750e ("G3 Plus") processor 100MHz main bus, controller capable of 133Mhz (achievable with high-quality RAM and overclocking) 1MB, 275MHz backside cache 256MB 100Mhz SDRAM (two interleaved 128MB DIMMs, six total RAM slots) Dual 9GB, 13,000 RPM Ultra2 SCSI hard disks On-board USB and 400Mbps FireWire. USB Keyboard and Two Button USB Mouse Full-height Tower case, with room for six additional 3.5" internal drives Three 33Mhz PCI slots, one 66/33Mhz slot,, one 4x AGP graphics slot ixMicro Ultimate Rez II 4x AGP graphics card (128-bit, 16MB SGRAM) On-board ATI Rage Pro Turbo graphics chipset, 8MB SGRAM. TV Tuner built-in. "Obsidian2" 3dfx 66Mhz PCI card with dual Voodoo2 chips and 24Mb texture RAM 4X DVD-RAM Drive Castlewood Systems Orb 2.1GB Ultra SCSI removable drive 100baseT Ethernet built-in 4Mbit IrDA infrared data transfer system. Built-in 16-bit Audio In/Out on-board Professional-level Video In/Out personality card (BTO option) Display Dual Apple Studio Display 20s, viewable area 19". Resolution up to 1600x1280. Software Mac OS 8.5, Rhapsody 1.0 in dual-boot Third-party Themes collection QuickTime 3.1 QuickDraw 3D with hardware-accelerated OpenGL support Netscape Communicator 5.0 with "Raptor" accelerated HTML engine HFS Plus-Savvy Norton Utilities 3.6 Conley SoftRAID (Rumored) VirtualPC 3.0 with "Transparent" emulator interface. * If you have items you'd like to see added to this list, or have evidence that these expectations may be unrealistic, please take a moment and contact MOSR. macosrumors.com ---------------------------- * My dream OS - add Windows (NT) and PC DOS 2000 as a hosted (guest OS) desktop . Jim K.