The proper replacement for the J700, on the other hand, was clearly the J710. The J700 had always been an odd beast: oversized for a desktop, still with more expandability than most business users really needed, and despite leveraging much of the S900s innards, not nearly as cost-efficient as it should have been. The J710, codenamed "Blizzard," was the perfect successor. Crammed into a C500 case, it took up considerably less space than the J700 yet offered strong performance, an attractive price, and just enough upgradeability to meet most demands. On initial shipment, the ZIF socket would hold a 200MHz 604e, with a 250MHz G3 planned for release in the summer of '98. Video was driven by on-board Matrox hardware with 4MB VRAM (UCC had been looking for an alternative partner to IX Micro, whose future was somewhat in doubt). The 3GB HD and 24x CD-ROM were both IDE. A specialized port on the logic board could accommodate a proprietary internal modem (to be made by E-Tech, another Umax subsidiary), while the Extended Performance PCI slot could host an ordinary 7" PCI card or a Umax E100 card for 10/100BaseT Ethernet and UltraWide SCSI. And the same basic product could be marginally stripped down, loaded with a 603e, and sold as the C510.
The name J710 may have been a bit incongruous. The C500 and C600 made up the logically-paired "C-series" -- different form factors, but the same logic board and performance. There was even less visible separation between the S900 and S910, which were very obviously the "S-series." But the "J-series"? Other than one letter and that both the J700 and J710 were targetted at business users, thay had almost nothing in common. The J700 was resolutely SCSI, used a stripped down Tsunami logic board, and was huge. The J710 featured IDE internal components, was based on Umax' Tanzania 2 logic board design, and occupied little more desktop space than a small monitor.
