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An Image For The Ages (3/30/99)
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Prepare for a purple flood of biblical proportions. Earlier on Tuesday NoBeige had posted that "Apple reportedly just received a large shipment" of iMacs from the manufacturing plants. How large? Try 50,000 large. That would be terrific news, given how constrained the iMac supply is right now. It gets better (sort of): these 50,000 iMacs are supposedly all Grape. Every single one. Given that Grape is one of the most popular flavors (probably second only to Blueberry), that's a positive thing. Never mind the fact that a single cluster of 50,000 Grape iMacs sounds like something Salvador Dali would have painted when he was in a particularly weird mood.
Not that we haven't seen some pretty surrealistic and absurd stuff popping up in the Mac world before, but something about the image of 50,000 Grape iMacs hints to us that it's just another early April Fool's joke. If the story isn't true, that's a darn shame, because the channel could really use 50,000 iMacs right about now-- even if they're all Grape.
Of course, even if the story is only a joke, we're going to have a hard time clearing the image of 50,000 Grape iMacs out of our brains. We can just see them set up side by side on an impossibly long glowing white table, stretching majestically out into the distance, vanishing at the horizon line. Or perhaps arranged in Apple's "Wall of iMacs" formation, such as Steve Jobs used at his last couple of Macworld Expo keynote addresses-- over a thousand of those walls, resplendent in their translucent purpleness. Or best yet, all 50,000 Grape iMacs assembled on the lawn outside Apple's headquarters, each angled and tilted towards a giant statue of Steve Jobs, as if they're all worshipping at his feet. Somebody call Pixar-- I think we've got an idea for a short subject...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/30/99 episode: March 30, 1999: Beware-- the April Fool's hoaxes are starting early this year. Meanwhile, a story surfaces about a possible shipment of 50,000 Grape iMacs, and BMUG closes its office, marking the end of an era...
Other scenes from that episode: 1431: Ichthyology in April (3/30/99) Check it out-- it's a gold mine! The Mac Man has an exclusive peek into many of Apple's future plans, straight from the mouth of Fred Johnson, a soon-to-be ex-Apple employee with a better job offer trying to get fired for leaking news so that he can reap severance benefits before moving on to his new position... 1433: Evolve Or Perish (3/30/99) It's the end of an era: the Berkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG), one of the largest Mac users groups in existence, just closed their office. In a letter to members, they cite the reason to be falling membership renewals and their resulting inability to afford the office space...
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