The gossip columns of PC Week and MacWeek are full of gossip this week that Apple Computer Inc may have solicited bids for 500,000 low-power 80486 chips, with suggestions being that these could be to go into either PowerBooks or for add-in boards for Quadra and Centris; there is also talk of Apple rallying Dell Computer Corp and Compaq Computer Corp to make machines around the PowerPC RISC.
