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Blimey, The Keynote Live (2/15/01)
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Bummed because you won't be in Tokyo next week to bask in the Blinding Glory of Steve at the Macworld Expo keynote? Despondent because as of yet we know of no one who's announced a webcast of the momentous event? Well, fret no longer! Sure, airfare to Tokyo is pricey, especially less than a week before your travel date-- but if you've got a decent travel agent, we bet he or she can get you to Croydon for hundreds of dollars less.
"That's nice," you're probably thinking, "but I'm looking for a way to watch the Stevenote, not a nature tour of the woodlands in and around London's southern suburbs." Well, while we understand that the "Secret Places of Happy Valley" are lovely this time of year, we actually had something else in mind. According to The Register, the Croydon branch of the UK computer chain "PC World" is planning to broadcast Steve's big speech live via satellite "onto the big screen." This isn't a hoax; Apple's own web site confirms the Croydon shindig. Reportedly PC World will even be handing out free sushi to get people into a Tokyo mood. So if you just have to catch Steve's next keynote and you can't get all the way to Tokyo, hie thee to Croydon for the next best thing!
One word of warning, however: don't forget the time difference. Since Croydon isn't exactly down the street from the Land of the Rising Sun, in order to screen the Stevenote live, PC World is opening its doors at 11:30 PM local time; Steve himself will probably take the stage at roughly 1 AM, and PC World hopes to start kicking sleep-deprived and adrenaline-juiced Mac fans out the door at about 3 AM-- so plan accordingly. And one last thing: if PC World in Croydon can get the keynote live via satellite, odds are it'll crop up in other locations, too. You've been warned; don't go blaming us if you sell your car for airfare to Croydon, and then you find out that the CompUSA down the street's getting the feed too. Them's the risks that every Steve-chaser must take.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/15/01 episode: February 15, 2001: Despite disappointing box-office receipts, Apple is already shooting a sequel to the Cube. Meanwhile, Mac OS X's system requirements are apparently increasing even as you breathe, and if you can't make it to Tokyo for the keynote next week, how's Croydon grab you?...
Other scenes from that episode: 2865: The Cube 2: Son Of Cube (2/15/01) Let's face it-- it's rare for a sequel to surpass the quality of the original. In fact, we're not even going to rattle off the short list of movies that have successfully pulled off that stunt, because every time the Star Wars vs. The Empire Strikes Back debate arises anew, things get really tense around the AtAT studios, and frankly, we just don't need that right now... 2866: Mac OS X: BEEEEFCAAAAKE!! (2/15/01) Well, that'll teach us not to whine. Remember last week, when we noted that for a general-purpose, consumers-love-it operating system, Mac OS X packed some pretty hefty system requirements? While plenty of Mac users are harping on the minimum RAM (128 MB, as opposed to the earlier promised 64 MB), we zeroed in on the disk space that Apple claims is necessary to install and run its zaftig new OS: 1 GB of space available on the boot drive...
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