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In article <23349@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau) writes:
> >1.  There will be a System 6.0.4 (at least that is the number that I heard)
> >    that will include one of the features that was wanted for System 7.0.
> System 6.0.4, my rumor source says, is for the upcoming 25 MHz Macs that
> will be announced at the Fall MacWorld.  The feature that Michael
> mentions is probably the new QuickDraw outline font capability.  It is
> running far behind schedule; just turned alpha, and crashes often.  My
> source says that Apple is so desperate to get 6.0.4 out, they've pulled
> people from the System 7.0 project to work on 6.0.4.  Which leads to...

Hmm...  That's not the feature that I heard about (although that could be
another lesser feature :-)...

> >2.  System 7.0 will be out near the end of the year; it will be officially
> >    announced at the Fall MacWorld.
> A "features list" will be available at the Boston MacWorld, but I doubt
> anything beyond a carefully guarded alpha release will be shown.

Apparently, the team working on System 7.0 is having to go to great pains to
ensure compatibility with earlier Macs, causing the development to be very
slow...  There is also a scary rumor about ROM upgrades...

> >3.  The Macintosh portable is moving along at a good pace, but probably will
> >    not be announced until late in the year.  The features of this machine
> I don't know what you're expecting, but I hear it's not coming out for
> quite a while.  Apple's main attention will be focused on getting the
> 25 MHz machines out the door by the August MacWorld, but they don't
> even expect to make that deadline.

The portable is being demonstrated to the "elites" now from what I hear.
The optomistic shipping predictions are giving an early December shipping date
(although I don't know if that will be realistic).  In this week's Computer-
World, they listed the price at $3000, which I think is wishful thinking...
They also said that the portable will weigh in at about 16 pounds (I heard
15, but that extra pound might be the internal 40MB hard disk :-).

> ...Cheapest ever.  Rumor is that Apple is
> trying to clear its stockpiles of Mac Plusses, and they'll drop the
> consumer list price of it Real Soon Now.

From what ComputerWorld said this week, Apple is clearing inventories on both
the Mac Plus and the Mac II (in order to ramp up production on the IIcx,
apparently).  In this case, I really doubt their accuracy (what do they know
about Macs anyway :-).

> --- Alex

-Michael


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