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Issue #3
 New Toys at MacWorld Expo
Brad Harrison
"Collect them all!" exclaimed Steve Jobs as he finished debuting
the new iMacs. They now come in
five different colours, lime, strawberry, grape, tangerine, and
blueberry. Not only do they come in five new delicious flavours,
but they were also upgraded very nicely. They now have a six
gigabyte hard drive and a 266 MHz processor. It also has the
revision B upgrades, which include Mac OS 8.5, and an additional 4
MB of VRAM (6 MB instead of 2 MB). Another one of the more subtle
upgrades were the fact that you can now restart from the keyboard
instead of sticking a paper-clip into a restart hole.
Steve Jobs also showed off the new G3
Macs, code named Yosemite. These Macs take full advantage of
the G3's power. They run at 300, 350, and 400 MHz. Not a lot has
been said about these wonderful new toys yet, but it appears that
they have a Zip drive for removable media. They also have have
larger limits for RAM and storage. You can now put up to 100 GB of
hard disk storage and you can even stuff 1 GB of RAM into these
suckers.
The old Mac ports that we know and love may be gone but Apple
has come up with a couple of great replacements. We know about USB
from the iMac line but the Yosemites also have something that Apple
has been hiding for a little while. FireWire, an Apple developed
technology, is SCSI on herbal supplements and a great exercise
program(steroids doesn't sound very nice). It can sling information
around at speeds of up to 200 MB per second.
Of course, the greatest thing about the Yosemites is their
style. They have the same colour scheme as the original iMacs. They
may be towers but they still retain a great curvy quality to them.
These new machines will surely become a force to be reckoned
with.
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