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To Those Who Wait (1/18/00)
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See, we knew if we could just keep blathering on and on about the mysterious lack of hardware announcements at Macworld Expo, eventually someone would float us some info just to get us to shut up about it already. Such was our cunning plan, and we're happy to say, it worked. Of course, there's a potential problem with the "annoy people until they tell you something" school of rumormongering, which is that sometimes people will just make stuff up to get you to go away, but heck, we're willing to take that risk. It's not like we have any journalistic ethics to worry about. If you're looking for hard-hitting news that's been carefully researched from confirmed and reliable sources, you're surfing the wrong channel, bub-- we're just here to entertain you.
So here's the thing, though: the news isn't all that good, at least as far as release dates go. Remember when we discussed the possibility of Apple refreshing all four product lines at once sometime within the next few weeks? Not gonna happen. AppleInsider claims that the Mac OS 9.0.1 software update is now in "Final Candidate" stage, and if that were indeed the final piece of the puzzle (as rumored), then maybe it could all fall into place. But Mac OS Rumors claims that multiprocessor Power Mac G4s aren't likely to surface until this summer. An unnamed source wrote in to say that an iBook revision won't happen until spring at least. And another source who'll have to remain anonymous claims that the latest release date for Pismo and the "Mega-iMac" is "late March/early April." Sounds like we've got plenty of time on hand for the drumming of the fingers and the whittling of the sticks.
The good news, though, is that a very trusted source says, yes, the 17-inch iMac is real, it's coming, and it's going to be targeted at businesses who want easy-to-deploy work terminals with screens big enough for reasonably serious spreadsheet-crunching and the like. While we didn't get any details about pricing (heck, Apple probably won't really decide on that until the morning of the unveiling anyway), it's been described as "very competitive." Well, well, well... Apple's actually willing to mix things around a little. The consumer-oriented iMac is getting a business makeover. Is this the beginning of the end of the four-corner product strategy?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/18/00 episode: January 18, 2000: It's end-of-quarter finances time, and you can join in the fun via live QuickTime streaming. Meanwhile, rumors swirl about spring and summer unveilings of that hardware we all expected two weeks ago, and leaving the settlement talks behind, Microsoft leaps back into the fray on "Redmond Justice"...
Other scenes from that episode: 2038: The Money Man Speaks (1/18/00) And here we are, mere hours away from the revelation of Apple's most recent end-of-quarter financial results. Frankly, our enthusiasm's a bit dampened; for one thing, everyone pretty much already knows that the numbers are going to look fantastic... 2040: The Sleeping Giant (1/18/00) Wow, and here we were losing hope in "Redmond Justice" because we thought we saw hints that Microsoft was getting ready to throw in the towel. Think about it-- the trial itself was a riotous comedy of errors, with the government scoring hit after hit against the Redmond Giant amid evidence of faked Microsoft videotapes, Microsoft witnesses being tripped up by their own email, etc...
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