O'Grady's PowerPage reports that Apple will soon release a PowerBook 3400 based on the new 300Mhz 603e. He also has exclusive pictures of Comet. Apple announced Quicktime 3.0 yesterday. QuickTime 3.0 also supports industry standard digital audio file formats, including Wave, AIFF, Sound Designer II, AU, and MPEG Layer 2, as well as many common still image, animation, and MIDI formats. Since the QuickTime architecture is fully extensible, new media types, compressionschemes, and file formats to be readily supported as they emerge.
More details are available on the specification page.
This is obviuously a counter attack on Apple's recent announcements. MacWorld has a report on a new CHRP design from Motorola. The report indicates that the 266Mhz G3-based design is blasingly fast. The new design will reportedly ship this summer and will be loaded with all kinds of goodies. Digital video vendor, ProMax Technology today announced the first Mac based on the X704 processor.