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True Lies (12/29/98)
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While Mac OS Rumors is publishing tantalizing Expo-related tidbits from their unnamed and mysterious sources, we know that some of the more cautious among you would rather base your Expo predictions on information from more "official" sites. That's all well and good, as long as you keep in mind that "legitimate" news outlets are often not any more accurate than the rumors sites. That said, we can offer what might be a case in point revealed by O'Grady's PowerPage: they became aware of a page posted over at ZDNet which claims that Apple's new consumer laptop, the one we've all come to know by the codename "P1," will in fact be making its public debut at the Expo.
Now, ZDNet may not be the New York Times, but neither is it the Weekly World News. By that, we mean that ZDNet is presented more as a legitimate news source than as "just" a rumors site, so when they claim that the P1 will be a topic during Steve Jobs' keynote address, we assume that they're basing that assumption on something more concrete than, say, something they overheard at the corner deli. The interesting thing, though, is that this information directly contradicts what Steve Jobs himself said at the last keynote he delivered, at CAUSE98 a little while ago. In that presentation, he plainly stated that the P1 wouldn't surface until after the Expo. So was Steve just trying to prime us for a big surprise? Or has the P1 come along a lot faster than anyone expected? Or is ZDNet just plain wrong about the P1's role at next week's show?
Basically, it just goes to show how the line between "news" and "rumor" just keeps getting blurrier-- especially when you're dealing with a company like Apple, who's always just so full of surprises. Between Apple's secrecy and security, and the alleged "misinformation campaigns" they use to feed false info to the media and to track down leaks, AtAT's personal philosophy is that anything you hear about Apple-- from any source-- is rumor, until it actually happens. And maybe for a little while afterwards. And possibly into perpetuity. Basically, skepticism is healthy; but that's not going to keep us from seeing visions of Expo-bound P1s dancing in our heads. Dreaming is healthy, too, ya know.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/29/98 episode: December 29, 1998: There's nothing wrong with Myth II for the Mac-- but a Windows-related problem has prompted a recall for everybody. Meanwhile, reports of excessive security surrounding Apple's Expo preparations has everyone guessing, and ZDNet seems to think that the consumer portable will make its debut during the keynote...
Other scenes from that episode: 1237: Screwed By Association (12/29/98) So we were poking around in a local Best Buy and surveying the post-holiday consumer carnage, when we decided to take a peek and see if Myth II had made it onto the shelves yet. Myth II, of course, is the hugely-anticipated and long-awaited sequel to last year's smash hit Myth-- in our opinion, the best real-time tactical combat game available, if for no reason other than the fact that blood-trailing severed heads, limbs, and torsos go flying through the air in decidedly poetic trajectories... 1238: Rent-A-Cop Heaven (12/29/98) There doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on in the Mac world these days, in this quiet period at the end of the year. There's little doubt, though, that we're in the proverbial calm before the storm; Apple's pretty much shut down as they revamp their ordering system, everyone's slowed things down for the holidays, and Macworld Expo's just around the corner...
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