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Undercover Evangelism (12/29/00)
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Amid the rabid Apple-bashing that is sure to surface in the media over the course of the next few months, it's nice to know that Uncle Steve won't be in the doghouse alone. Since Apple's not the only tech company facing nasty badness right now, hopefully we can expect a slew of negative coverage about all sorts of high-profile corporations for our unending entertainment. For instance, faithful viewers David Triska and Ted both noted a very visible article in the New York Times that basically tears Intel's Pentium 4 processor a new pipeline.
Yes, the P4 takes yet another whipping, and this time it's not on some obscure technical review web site; when something like this hits the New York Times, regular people are apt to sit up and take notice. The author notes that the Pentium 4 is both slower and more expensive than its predecessor, and also points out that it requires a different kind of RAM-- RDRAM, which "costs about $250 more per 128 megabytes than standard memory." So much for progress, right? And for Mac fans looking to dispel the myths that perpetuate the Wintel hegemony, the article gets even better: it plainly addresses the "Megahertz Myth" and even goes so far as to point out that "a 500-megahertz Macintosh chip is much faster than a 500-megahertz Pentium III." Zoinks-- and this from a mainstream, well-respected publication, no less!
Why the Mac-friendly Intel-bashing in the Times, you ask? Well, we'll let you in on a little secret: the article was written by none other than David Pogue, who, as most Mac fans are well aware, has his roots planted squarely in the Apple camp. He's written for Mac publications for years, and is a regular fixture at Macworld Expo. Isn't it nice that he's writing for the Times now? Why, perhaps he'll be tapped to write about Apple's imminent demise in the coming weeks and the company will be handled with kid gloves. Hmmm... maybe the AtAT staff should apply for a writing position in the tech department of USA Today or something, just to help the cause...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/29/00 episode: December 29, 2000: The bloom is off the iCEO, as Steve makes MarketWatch's list of losers in the year 2000. Meanwhile, the New York Times trashes the Pentium 4 while talking up the PowerPC, and Nintendo appears to be buying up and shrinking old Apple inventory to create its new game systems...
Other scenes from that episode: 2769: Branded With A Big Fat "L" (12/29/00) The man returned to the company he cofounded a quarter of a century ago, staunched a billion dollars a year in financial bleeding, restored the strength of the Apple brand, and introduced a paradigm-breaking all-in-one computer that prompted three straight years of profitability and launched a worldwide lust for bright colors and translucency in everything from toothbrushes to kitchen appliances... 2771: We Will Call It "Mini-Mac" (12/29/00) Do you ever wonder what happens to Apple's remaining inventory of existing Macs when a new line gets released? Generally Apple's pretty good at flushing the channel. Heck, with Commander Steve's Iron Veil of Secrecy firmly in place, that's one of the only ways that Apple-watchers can anticipate new hardware introductions; when Apple cuts prices and bleeds the channel dry, chances are there's a refreshed version waiting in the wings...
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