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The Longing Continues... (5/6/99)
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Have you been keeping track of just how long we've all been waiting for a new PowerBook? Seriously-- it's been a year since we've had the excitement of a fresh new portable. The PowerBook G3 Series was introduced exactly one year ago, on the same day that the iMac said hello again; since then, we've had some speed bumps and some graphics upgrades, but the PowerBook itself is basically still the same old Wall Street model. Not that its sleek black curves aren't still exciting, but they're a little... familiar. Meanwhile, the consumer portable is nowhere to be found, and Lombard/101/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is still waiting in the wings.
Which is probably why people seem so desperately willing to glom onto any little piece of information about these new PowerBooks, which we sincerely hope will be introduced at next week's WWDC. For instance, apparently Mac OS Rumors posted some photos earlier today that were supposedly shots of the new 101, but we were asleep at the browser and by the time we got there, the photos had been pulled after they had been determined to be fakes. Luckily for us, O'Grady's PowerPage has left the pictures up, ostensibly on the premise that any 101 info, even info known to be spurious, is better than none at all. After all, if we can't have the real deal, why not chow down on mock 101?
So, yeah, the picture isn't really 101, although the handle is sort of a nice touch, and the curves are kinda neat, too. Still, we're a little surprised that anyone could have thought that these pics were genuine; they just don't look right, and there's the whole issue of missing media bays and whatnot. Again, we think people are just getting a little too anxious for info, so we'll be real glad when Apple finally decides to end our misery and ship the darn thing. Really, this is just too cruel.
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Other scenes from that episode: 1508: It Came From Planet Flush (5/6/99) It's pretty hard to believe that it was exactly one year ago today that Apple first took the wraps off the iMac and the whole world said, "Whoa." (Actually, the whole world said, "What the hell is that?!", but Apple Marketing decided that phrase was too long for the t-shirts.) There it was, a translucent blue and white space egg, just bursting with enthusiasm as if it just knew... 1509: A (gag) PC In Every Mac (5/6/99) We at AtAT have long been fascinated with urban legends, those great "friend of a friend" stories that seem to stick around forever despite being, in many cases, completely false. False they may be, but in many cases the balance of the story is so perfect that the really sticky urban legends click into the archetypes of the collective unconscious and refuse to let go...
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