Word: powerbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certain models of the Macintosh Performa and PowerBook lines are being recalled for inspection and possible repairs which the Technology Product Center (TPC) will conduct, Harvard University Information Systems announced in a letter mailed last month...
...participation is part of Apple Computer Co.'s Repair Extension Program, in which the Performa 6300, Performa 6214 and PowerBook 5300 and 190 models are being recalled for inspection and a quality report...
...company's potential to match buyers and sellers is what caught Diller's eye. Diller and Tomlin first worked together at QVC; Diller was the chairman, Tomlin a high-tech executive who had phoned looking for a job after reading how much Diller loved his Powerbook. Both left QVC in the fall of 1994; a few months later, Diller recalls, Tomlin called him again: "'I've found these two guys in a garage...
...have a modem and a Powerbook at home," Ehrenreich says matter-of-factly. "It's something I carry with me on longer trips so I can keep in touch...
...fact, Apple seems incapable of forecasting sales for its products. Over the past two years the company has consistently underestimated demand for its hottest PowerBook and Quadra models. It has just as consistently overestimated demand for less popular machines. Between October and December, the value of Apple's inventories of unsold computers rose more than 50%, to nearly $1 billion; the company made more than $350 million worth of computers it could not sell. Already losing money, Apple is not in a good position to hold a sale. Meanwhile, the surplus drags further on the bottom line...