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Your Ticket To The Good Life (4/10/01)
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Do you hate your job? Are you tired of the same old 9-to-5 grind day in and day out? Do you dream of chucking it all, leaving the rat race far behind, and assuming the exciting role of a one-person mobile news team? Of course you do... who doesn't? Glamour, excitement, travel, and a career vaguely associated with show business can all be yours. All you need is the will to succeed-- and Apple's new PowerBook Mobile Newsroom bundle!
That's right, for a limited time Apple is making it easier than ever for different-thinkers unsatisfied with the workaday world to cast off the chains of normalcy and drink deep the heady draughts of life as a gonzo field reporter. Apple's latest promotion bundles together all the "cutting-edge, real world technologies" you'll need to produce your own professional-quality video news segments: a 500 MHz PowerBook G4; an AirPort card and Base Station; a copy of Final Cut Pro 2; and a Canon GL-1 MiniDV camera. Pack it all up in the convenient carrying case* (*convenient carrying case not included), lug it to the site of the nearest natural disaster, grab some footage of the wreckage, interview a few grief-stricken survivors, edit it all together, and then just sit back and wait for those journalism awards to start piling up at your feet. It's just that easy!
Be the envy of all your less-daring cubicle-dwellers. Call up the people who picked on you in high school and rub their noses in your newfound success. Attend A-List parties and hobnob with the other big names in television news, such as Al Roker and Gene Shalit. Go on a massive ego trip and trash your hotel room because the management forgot to pick out all the green M&M's. Fame, fortune, and the adoration of throngs of attractive members of your preferred gender are guaranteed!* (*Guarantee will not be honored.)
Best of all, by ordering before June 30th, you can save literally dozens of dollars! Until then, the cost of this Mobile Newsroom bundle at the Apple Store is a mere $7199; order the components separately, and you'll see that Apple's special promo price represents a whopping $196 off the regular cost. That's a 2.65% savings you just can't afford to miss, so act now!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/10/01 episode: April 10, 2001: One of Apple's latest promotions offers customers a "Mobile Newsroom" getup, but the price break is iffy. Meanwhile, rumor has it that the PowerPC G5 may hit 2 GHz late next year (now if only Intel would enter cryogenic stasis until then), and the Installer application in Mac OS X may be a messy accident waiting to happen...
Other scenes from that episode: 2980: Complainers' Job Security (4/10/01) Has anyone noticed that whining about the clock speed deficit has fallen out of fashion in the Mac community of late? After being stuck at 500 MHz for about a year and a half, we hardly expected that a boost to 733 MHz would quiet the career complainers, especially since the competition is already running at over twice that speed, and word has it that a 1.7 GHz Intel chip is just weeks away... 2981: Installer: Russian Roulette (4/10/01) Speaking of Mac OS X's "rough edges," one of them is apparently sharp and ragged enough to cut deep and do some real damage. A report over at Stepwise contains troubling technical details of some nasty bugs in Apple's own software installer, which basically add up to this unsettling conclusion: through no one's fault but Apple's, the simple act of installing a software package can have "serious side effects, including disabling your system completely."...
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