Word: quadra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...machines run virtually all popular Macintosh software packages without a hitch. But, unless an application is recompiled specifically for the Power Macintosh (in "native" mode, as Apple evangelists call it), the new machines may actually run the program slower than their 68040-based Quadra and Centris counterparts...
Despite the flurry of Power Macintoshes hitting the market, most Harvard students looking to purchase a Mac will find Apple's 68040-based LC 575 and Quadra 605 to be better buys for word processing, HSDN connectivity and light multimedia applications...
...seven women featured in the TIME picture chart shown below? Doing so by the scientific rules of genetic engineering -- themselves extremely complex and not yet fully understood -- would be impossible. Instead, TIME chose a software package called Morph 2.0, produced by Gryphon, to run on a Macintosh Quadra 900. The Morph 2.0 is an offspring of Hollywood's sophisticated special-effects equipment used to produce such eye poppers as Michael Jackson's celebrated metamorphosis in his Black or White video and the evil robot that wreaks havoc in Terminator...