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Liquid PowerBook, Anyone? (1/6/00)
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If you watched the keynote, you know that the big news was Mac OS X and Apple's new Internet strategy. But if you watched the keynote and thrive on Apple rumors, you know that the really big news was Pismo's no-show. Pismo, the next-generation PowerBook, was expected by everyone with a pulse, including several people at Apple, and its conspicuous absence left most of us wondering, "Why?"
Well, we received quite a bit of feedback from viewers with various claims to inside information, and some of it is rather interesting. We're not going to mention any names because we certainly wouldn't want to get anyone in trouble, but... several sources claim that Pismo, in its current form, runs a bit hot. Well, okay, more than a bit hot. Here's the thing: these folks are claiming that Pismo's internals are throwing off so much heat, the bottoms of the units are literally melting. If we had to come up with an expression to describe that phenomenon, we'd have to go with "not quite ready for prime time." Or maybe "of course we haven't announced them yet-- the frickin' things are melting, for crying out Pete's sake!"
Opinions about just how long it'll take Apple to smack Pismo into a useable state (as in, one that won't require oven mitts or skin graft surgery for users who operate these things on their laps) vary wildly, but at this point we're not holding our breath for Pismo to ship anytime soon. Maybe as late as May, even, but that's just our guess. And so the Apple portable curse continues-- nary a laptop emerges from Apple's labs unscathed by unseemly delays.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/6/00 episode: January 6, 2000: Don't blame us-- blame Apple's video stream. But we're happy to confirm that Mac OS X's new Finder will indeed support multiple windows, contrary to yesterday's rant. Meanwhile, rumors about Pismo's Expo no-show start to heat up (literally!), and Microsoft adopts a bit of Apple's former media sobriquet...
Other scenes from that episode: 2020: Mea Culpa Kinda Sorta (1/6/00) Originally we were just going to broadcast an addendum, but we're thinking this deserves the attention of a full-fledged scene... In yesterday's episode we voiced our concerns about Mac OS X's new Finder, which, we believed, eliminated the flexibility of today's Finder by restricting the user interface to a single window... 2022: Sharing The Beleaguerment (1/6/00) It's no news that Apple isn't "beleaguered" anymore, right? Apple suffered under the weight of that tag for years-- it was their own personal media albatross during the Scary Times. Things are much better now, of course, what with all the black ink, the rising sales, the kick-ass products, etc...
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