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Runs Fine, Still Looks Great (11/3/00)
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Finally, it becomes even more abundantly clear why Apple never shipped an iMac in a yellow hue called "Lemon." Faithful viewer Vince Briones kindly notified us of a fantastic promotion currently in effect down at Bob Dance Automotive of central Florida: buy or lease any new or used vehicle before the end of the year and get an iMac for free. Now that's an offer you can't refuse! We can get the undercarriage rustproofing on that iMac, right?
Granted, the details are a trifle dodgy. (Get it? "Dodge-y"? Hey, it's Friday-- we're below our Terrible Pun Quota for the week.) One page advertising the giveaway claims that "you pick the color" of the free iMac, but another clearly lists the specs of the giveaway system as the entry-level $799 350 MHz model-- which, as everyone knows, is available solely in Indigo. Evidently Bob Dance is pulling a Henry Ford and telling us that we can have any color, as long as it's Indigo. Still, a "free" $799 iMac is nothing to sneeze at, so if you happen to be in the market for a new or used car in the central Florida area, consider buying from Bob Dance and picking up a free addition to your Mac family at the nearby Altamonte CompUSA store.
Free Macs with cars-- this could be the start of something big. Didn't Volkswagen sell some cars complete with mountain bikes and skis? Why not something like a "PowerBook Mercedes," which includes Apple's pro laptop tricked out with a GPS card and directions and mapping software? Or if that's too appropriate a concept, there's always Vince's suggestion for an Oracle adjunct cross-promotion: "Maybe we can get Uncle Larry [Ellison] to throw in a license for Oracle 8i with every new jet ski!" That's a fine idea, Vince, except that Oracle CEO and Apple board member Larry Ellison is dead... isn't he?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/3/00 episode: November 3, 2000: Xtrem (those 1200 MHz G4 people) simply can't stand the heat-- parodically speaking, that is. Meanwhile, there may be more to that IBM-Transmeta drama than we originally thought; Apple should take heed. And if you're in the market for a new or used car in the central Florida area, now you can get a vehicle bundled with a free iMac...
Other scenes from that episode: 2655: ...Get Out Of The Kitchen (11/3/00) Tsk, tsk, tsk... some people just can't handle a little competition. You recall, of course, the announcement of the XtremMac back in early August, right? Xtrem claimed that by doing some incredibly scientific-sounding and top secret stuff to a standard 500 MHz G4 processor and then installing it into a 3D rendering of a Shure microphone, they'd wind up with a G4-based Mac clone running at an astonishing 1200 MHz... 2656: We Must Be Off Our Game (11/3/00) So things were so incredibly slow yesterday that we resorted to covering how the IBM-Transmeta deal fell apart-- which drew criticism from one Mac fan for being poorly researched. Hey, we're the first to admit it: we know next to nothing about the Crusoe processor except what we glean from the info-bites scattered across the Web...
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