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Next Stop: Milk Cartons (8/23/01)
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Meanwhile, not everyone in Macdom is anxious for a new PowerBook; at least one guy is desperate to get his old one back. How desperate? Well, how about "$15,000 reward for safe return" desperate? That's right, folks; if you're looking to earn a quick fifteen grand, consider taking up a brief stint as a PowerBook bounty hunter to start on a hard-target search for a "hapless author's" missing laptop, which he apparently left on a plane a couple of weeks ago. A Reuters article (forwarded to us by faithful viewer John Skittone) has more details.
Before you get too excited about assuming the title of Great Mac Detective, we should point out that unless you happen to live in or around the Singapore area, odds are you're going to have to make a hefty investment in travel expenses before collecting that reward. Evidently the missing PowerBook was "left on Flight SQ857 from Hong Kong to Singapore on August 11th," which makes things a little tricky for those of us Stateside. For our part, we here at AtAT are reluctantly willing to leave the search for this valuable PowerBook to Mac fans a little geographically closer to the scene of the disappearance.
As for why the owner is willing to shell out fifteen large to get his PowerBook back, we suspect it has less to do with his undying love for the Mac itself (someone who's that crazy about the hardware probably wouldn't ever let it leave his sight, let alone leave it on a plane; he'd be making googly eyes at it 24-7) and more to do with those "three manuscripts for books on business management" stored on the hard drive. Hmmm... sounds like the author's next book on business management is going to have chapters on keeping an eye on the capital equipment and the importance of backing up vital data.
Anyway, if you're itching to get on the case so you can collect that reward and use it to buy a six-pack of PowerBooks for yourself, unfortunately, no details are provided on what model PowerBook was lost. If you can scrape up today's copies of Singapore's Times and Straits Times newspapers, though, we're guessing those might include better descriptions of the missing portable in the "four-column advertisement" placed by the author's lawyer. Otherwise, the best you have to go on other than the Singapore Airlines flight number is the fact that said PowerBook "can be identified by a black on yellow start-up screen that reads 'Take Today Off.'" (Without his PowerBook or backups of his work, we figure the author is finally going to be taking that advice whether he likes it or not.) Happy sleuthing!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/23/01 episode: August 23, 2001: No new hardware product launches in Paris next month? That's as maybe, but a revamped PowerBook is on its way nonetheless. Meanwhile, an author in Singapore issues a $15,000 reward for his lost PowerBook, and Microsoft garners some grass-roots "Redmond Justice" support from the lifeforce-challenged...
Other scenes from that episode: 3260: Making Titanium New Again (8/23/01) My, my, my... is it just us, or is the plot getting awfully thick in here? At first we were half-joking when we suggested that Steve's official denial of new hardware product launches at the Apple Expo in Paris is open to interpretation, but now the signs are simply too overwhelming to ignore... 3262: Grabbing The Zombie Vote (8/23/01) Man, talk about an unexpected "Redmond Justice" plot twist! Watch out, Justice Department and attorneys general; pursue your antitrust case against Microsoft at the risk of your own political careers, because the company has apparently managed to secure grass-roots support in its struggle from a vast, untapped segment of the U.S. population: the stiffs...
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