We're not entirely certain how we feel about ambivalence, but one thing's for sure: we don't mind trading in a little hair-pulling melodrama for the knowledge that Guy Kawasaki hasn't abandoned the Mac after all. While it's true that Apple's former Head Evangelist and de facto spiritual leader of the Macintosh Faithful did in fact use an IBM ThinkPad while delivering a presentation at a Big Blue shindig, and while it's also true that Guy called attention to that fact and quipped "If only Steve Jobs could see me now," it turns out that the ThinkPad in question was little more than a prop.

Faithful viewer Rohin Hattiangadi was first to note that MacCentral's revised coverage of Guy's apparent defection claims that "Kawasaki's use of a ThinkPad was apparently due to problems in getting his PowerBook to interface with the audio/visual system at the conference hall and not because he has personally switched to a Windows-based laptop." That info found its way to MacCentral courtesy of our buddy Shawn King of The Mac Show, who called Guy's people to find out what was up. So Guy's office told Shawn who told MacCentral who told Rohin who told us, and now we're telling you.

What's that? Six degrees of separation is too much to squeeze past your carefully-constructed walls of skepticism? Okay, then, let's take it down a notch; faithful viewer Hugh decided to email Guy directly and get the story straight from The Man Himself. And because Guy is such a nice... uh, Guy, Hugh got this personal response: "My use of a ThinkPad reflects the fact that IBM asked me to use an IBM product when speaking in front of 7,000 of their customers. Considering this was a paid speech, I didn't think that was unreasonable. :-) (My T4 was backstage, resting.)"

We knew he was a titanium man at heart! And apparently that story about his PowerBook not working with the A/V system was just a cover, too-- after all, what's so tough about hooking up a projector to a VGA port? It seems that IBM just didn't want the coolest-looking laptop in the world distracting its audience, especially with the Apple logo displayed prominently on its enclosure. So there you have it, people; you can take the Evangelist out of Apple, but you take the Apple away from the Evangelist when you pry it from his cold, dead fingers. (Or, uh, pay him to use something else for the duration of a speech.) We feel much better now. Carry on.