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Everything Lasts Forever (11/17/00)
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We at AtAT hereby propose that the Mac community retire the whole "glass half-empty"/"glass half-full" measure for whether a person is an optimist or a pessimist, at least for the next couple of months. Instead of that outdated and overused classification method, why don't we use a "faster G4s by Macworld Expo"/"we'll be at 500 MHz until we die" dichotomy instead? It seems somehow more specific and appropriate, certainly for the next eight weeks or so.
For the record, the AtAT staff falls somewhere in the middle. On one hand, we'd love to accept Mac OS Rumors' claims of an Expo-bound 600 MHz Power Mac G4 at face value. On the other, the G4/500 has been the upper limit for so long, we're finding a clock speed any faster than that as tough for our brains to accept as the concept of 2 + 2 = 5, or a really good show produced by UPN. Still, deeply-held fundamental beliefs aside, we'd like to classify ourselves as cautiously optimistic that when Steve takes the stage in January, he'll indeed be joined by a spankin' new UMA-2-based Power Mac running at speeds up to 600 MHz and using 133 MHz DDR RAM.
Why? Well, two reasons, really. The first is that this isn't just some unsubstantiated rumor posted at a rumors site with a spotty track record; this is a "confirmed" unsubstantiated rumor posted at a rumors site with a spotty track record. That makes all the difference. The second is a firmly-held belief that no dry spell lasts forever. Come on, even the Cubs won the World Series in 1908. Clearly Motorola's due for a break any day now. Right? Right?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/17/00 episode: November 17, 2000: The secret's out; apparently Apple's first retail store will open in downtown Palo Alto. Meanwhile, rumors of a 600 MHz Power Mac G4 slated for a Macworld Expo introduction have been "confirmed," and the Cube racks up yet another award from yet another impressed periodical...
Other scenes from that episode: 2685: Put On Your Shoppin' Hat (11/17/00) Everyone knows that Steve likes his secrets. Every time he takes the wraps off of some new surprise during a keynote, you can just see that twinkle in his eye. He lives for that perfect instant when he can cast his gaze over a sea of awestruck, open-mouthed faces and know that he just blew the mind behind each and every one of them... 2687: Kudos, Kudos Everywhere (11/17/00) And the awards keep rolling in! Nary a fortnight's passed since we proudly reported that the Power Mac G4 Cube had been honored with a Popular Mechanics Design & Engineering Award, and scarcely a week went by after that that we told you about the Cube's "Grand Award" in the Best of What's New race over at Popular Science...
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