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Bad News About Santa (9/6/00)
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Oh, to recapture the heady optimism of youth! There once was a time (back at the beginning of the sixteenth century) when your friendly neighborhood AtAT staff was young enough to believe that Santa might leave a pony under the tree come Christmas morn, and that the Tooth Fairy was some goofy winged chick who really had a thing for cast-off dental appendages. Try as we might, though, without some serious psychotropic drugs, these days we find it well-nigh impossible to believe in leprechauns, the Easter Bunny, and PowerBook G4s due by next week.
But apparently some people still hold out hope that an Apple PowerBook with a fire-breathing G4 at its core might still make a public appearance as early as next week's Apple Expo keynote. Mac OS Rumors, for instance, claims that Apple's still playing "to show, or not to show" when it comes to taking the wraps off the thing. The deciding factor is said to be whether or not Apple likes what it sees when Motorola issues its progress report on how far it's come with cranking out lower-power silicon-on-insulator G4 and G4e chips-- ones that can be run in a laptop without melting its case or yielding a battery life of about twenty seconds.
Personally, we figure the chance of catching a glimpse of a PowerBook G4 at next week's Expo is roughly on par with that of Steve dropping his pants and mooning the European crowd on a dare from Larry Ellison. Actually, scratch that-- Steve's still got that "a surprise every ninety days" initiative, and maybe he's got a nifty new tattoo he'd like to share with us. Regardless, when it comes to new stuff next week, we see it this way: Mac OS X Public Beta? Of course. New iBook? Almost definitely. New PowerBooks? Pretty likely. PowerBooks with G4s in them? Not a chance. (Note to Apple: Please prove our skeptical selves wrong, wrong, wrong.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/6/00 episode: September 6, 2000: Disgruntled customers plan a protest during next week's Apple Expo keynote address. Meanwhile, some still hold out a glimmer of hope that the PowerBook G4 will surface next week, and MarketSource is having a tough time attracting volunteers for this Sunday's Apple Demo Days event...
Other scenes from that episode: 2529: We Shall Overco-o-ome... (9/6/00) Oh, goody! It's been a while since the customers took matters into their own hands and protested an Apple decision/policy/boneheaded move-- we mean actually protested, in the grand old flower-power sense of the word, with signs and marches and catchy slogans and all that fun stuff... 2531: Not THAT Desperate (9/6/00) Consider this a public service announcement; there are only four days left until the next of Apple's famed "Demo Days" events, and apparently the effort is seriously understaffed. According to MacCentral, an "unidentified source" reports that MarketSource, the company that Apple hired to throw together these shindigs, is embroiled in a "desperate search" to rustle up staffers willing to demonstrate Macs at Circuit City stores this coming Sunday...
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