September 10th, 1999

[6:00 PM] The Week's Top Stories For Week Ending 9/10/99 The following are the week's Top Stories as well as our columns, editorials, and reviews from The Mac Observer for the preceding week. Friday Apple Stock Watch: Apple Closes At Another All Time High Apple Accepting Pre-orders On MacOS 9 Thursday Mac User Gets Defective PowerBook, Posts Online Survey On Switching To Wintel Steve Jobs Joins Board Of Directors For The Gap The Mac Observer Cited In New York Times Warning: Higher RAM Prices, Dead Ahead! Wednesday Team Mac Observer Reaches Top 20 SETI@home Club Teams! The Mac Observer Launches Application Tracking Service Tuesday Apple Stock Watch: Apple Sets Another High, Closes Over 76! Wall Street Analysts Raise Target For Apple To US$90 Monday - Closed For Labor Day Columns [Column] The Back Page - Our Love-Hate Relationship With Apple [Column] Ask Dave - Desktop Files Explained and B&W G3s [Column] My First Mac Was A Typewriter - Building An Easy Web Page [Column] On The Flip Side - Why Apple Is Such A Winner [Column] The Name of the Game - Free Games On The Web At Shockwave.com [Column] The Apple Trader - Buy AAPL or get left behind for good! [Column] Monday's Mac Gadget - Access UNIX from within Mac OS The Mac Observer Spin: Another great week for Apple's stock. Apple hit two new highs in 4 days of trading and saw their targer price raised to US$90. Lots of product releases this week, and we also found out that Steve Jobs had landed a new job at The Gap (Gap, Inc.) as a member of their Board of Directors. News continued to buzz this week about the G3 ROM block to mar an otherwise good week. Also, The Mac Observer launched a new service and then saw ourselves featured in the New York Times. Gotta love that! :-)