Whoops, time for another weekly erratum dredged up from the murky depths of sleep deprivation, folks! Yesterday, when we let Anya take the reins and she (apparently) predicted the inclusion of a SuperDrive in those brand spankin' new PowerBooks due to surface any ol' minute now, we blithely asserted that "the entire Mac rumor community" was expecting otherwise; unfortunately, we'd wandered into the realm of hyperbole (who, US?!) and obscured the truth. As faithful viewer ydm kindly points out, whereas both Mac OS Rumors and Think Secret are adamant about portable SuperDrives being a no-show and AppleInsider simply says their fate is "unknown," lone wolf Mac Rumors has steadfastly maintained that the SuperDrive will appear in a PowerBook this week.

Indeed, Mac Rumors has corrected us on this point itself, after a fashion-- though we'd like to mention that we certainly didn't intend to claim "to be the only rumor site to predict SuperDrives with the PowerBook," as the Mac Rumors staff states. (For one thing, we hate being called a "rumor site" as much as Max the Hyperkinetic Rabbity Thing hates being called "Hello Kitty.") All we meant to imply was that it was charmingly quaint for a six-month-old to expect portable SuperDrives when the conventional wisdom overwhelmingly predicts otherwise. You know, kinda like the way an earnest letter to Santa Claus is cute, or a seven-year-old kid setting a bear trap for the Easter Bunny makes you go "awwwwww."

Still, we fully admit that we shouldn't have referred to "the entire Mac rumor community" without including Mac Rumors, and therefore, mea culpa: we apologize wholeheartedly for the omission, and assure you all that it was done out of ignorance, not malice. As for Anya's unshakable faith in imminent DVD-burning PowerBooks, we now suspect that she reads Mac Rumors when our backs are turned. Granted, that would imply she's either managed to 1) network her Mac Classic II and install a web browser entirely on her own, or 2) learn to climb desks for Power Mac access despite being (seemingly, at least) unable to sit up unsupported-- but at this point we're not ruling anything out.

Meanwhile, as of broadcast time, we're probably just mere hours away from finding out if Mac Rumors-- and Anya-- were right. Personally, the question's rather moot for us anyway, since we're far less interested in being able to burn DVDs on an airplane than we are in seeing if Apple finally punches through that psychological 1 GHz barrier in its portable products. But then again, even that's kind of moot, since we're really still planning on sucking at least a couple more years' worth of duty out of our Pismo anyway. And as we all know and respectfully acknowledge, everything is all about us. So there.