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Maternal Payback Time (5/4/99)
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Are you the type of ungrateful offspring that perennially forgets Mother's Day? Shame on you! That poor, courageous woman raised you, fed you, cleaned up unspeakable messes for you, and you can't even remember to send her a card once a year? We are ashamed-- nay, repulsed-- by your insensitivity. You know what this means, don't you? This year, you're going to have to do something extra special to atone for the sins of the past. You're too far gone for flowers or candy to do the trick-- the only Mother's Day gift that truly says "I've been a horrible tick in the past but now I'm a responsible, thoughtful, conscientious son or daughter who really loves you" comes in five flavors from Apple.
That's right, Apple's continuing in the vein of last March's St. Patrick's Day Lime iMac special by offering a limited-time Mother's Day price on an iMac-and-printer bundle. For $1379 you can get dear ol' mum a 333 MHz iMac in her favorite flavor, bundled together with an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer. (Thank heavens Apple didn't fall prey to "pink razor syndrome" and do something incredibly lame like limit the offer to Strawberry.) That price reflects a savings of $70 off the normal Apple Store price, which you can sock away for some nice flowers next year, now that you've turned over a new leaf.
Now, some of you are thinking to yourselves, "Could I take advantage of this offer to buy the system for myself, instead of for my mother?" Well, technically, yeah, we assume so-- we doubt Apple requires that you provide a DNA sample from your mom to prove that the iMac's end-user is maternally enabled. But really-- thinking only of yourself instead of the dear, sweet woman who sacrificed so much for you? Such selfishness... Maybe you should get her a full-fledged G3 instead.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/4/99 episode: May 4, 1999: Nothing says "I Love You, Mom" like a sparkling new iMac in her favorite flavor. Meanwhile, Apple finally turns some of the Star Wars spotlight on QuickTime 4's new streaming ability, and speech technologies on the Mac may get a double boost from Apple and IBM...
Other scenes from that episode: 1503: May The 4rce Be With You (5/4/99) It's no secret that we think Apple's doing a pretty bang-up job of riding the Star Wars: Episode I coattails of hype. With over ten million downloads of the QuickTime-only trailer, including over a million downloads of the enhanced QuickTime 4 version, all of this swelling expectation and impatience for Episode I is really raising Apple's visibility on the Internet... 1504: Speaking Of Speech (5/4/99) Speaking of science fiction movies (chalk up another kick-ass segue for the AtAT team! Woo-hoo!), ever since Scotty tried to control an original Mac by speaking into its mouse in 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, voice interaction with Macs has been a Holy Grail for some of the more forward-thinking users out there...
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