Word: g3
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Essentials features Luke Fischbeck '00 on guitar and vocals; Brendan Greaves '00 on bass, harmonica, banjo and vocals; Pablo Colapinto '00 on keyboards and a G3 laptop; Mike Colin on drums and hngoura (a Senegalese hand percussion instrument); and Gary Johnson doing live video mixing. Oh, and Patrick Swayze on vocals. Or so they claim...
...First and foremost, the new iMacs give their users what all users want: more power. The basic iMac - which now qualifies as the low-end iMac - comes with a 350MHz G3 chip, 64 MB of RAM (expandable all the way up to 512MB), and a six-gigabyte hard drive. What else? A new, quieter cooling system, rapid startup, and a new price: $999. MORE...
...belated effort to build a market for Mac clones, spiking ancillary projects like the Newton palmtop and the Claris software subsidiary and replacing the bewildering tangle of product lines (raise your hand if you know the difference between the PowerBook 3400c/180 and the PowerBook 1400cs/166) with just four: the G3 desktop and laptop machines for the Mac-friendly publishing and graphics communities; the iMac desktop consumer machine; and the last pillar of Jobs' four-prong strategy, the consumer laptop iBook...
...wanted to get a laptop," she said, "and researching between G3 and all the other PC laptops, and it ended up that the PCs were a lot cheaper and had a better variety--more companies to choose from, better styles, better options...
According to BYTEmark integer test scores, the G3 Processor in every iMac is over 40 percent faster than a 400 MHz Pentium II. The iMac also integrates the Universal Serial Bus (USB) for connecting peripherals such as keyboards, mice and disk drives. This technology, now standard in many PCs, is over 50 times faster and more user-friendly than its predecessors...