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"G5? What The Heck's That?" (9/20/01)
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You know we hate to burst your collective bubble, kiddies, but those of you who have been hanging your hopes for the Mac platform on those alleged PowerPC G5 specs that surfaced a few days back might be in for a nasty little wake-up call. To recap, The Register was bringing grins to the faces of children all over the world with its talk of 1.6 GHz G5s possibly showing up in shipping Macs as early as this coming January or February... and thus did said smiling children drop off to sleep with visions of 64-bit processors dancing in their heads. Sadly, they may well be snoozing off a pipe dream.
Faithful viewer Mark K. Ehlert points out that Shane Anderson of the MacEvangeList just posted a very interesting (though disappointing) little factoid to that time-honored mailing list. With little regard for the fragile dreams of overoptimistic Mac lovers everywhere, he reports that when confronted with The Register's G5 specs (which allegedly came from "sources said to be close to Apple"), a Motorola executive responded with "rolling fits of laughter in between pauses of bull***." Now, unless that Motorola exec just happens to be an actual bull with digestive issues, we're not exactly sure how to parse the second bit of that quote, but it doesn't exactly sound like a ringing vote of confidence to us.
Granted, we're not exactly sure why we should believe "a Motorola executive" any more than "sources said to be close to Apple," because neither sounds like much in the way of unimpeachable, verifiable sources of information. In fact, we're probably a better source than either of those nameless shadowy entities, because at least you know who we are. All we can tell you, however, is what we've heard from the cousin of a Motorola executive's hairdresser said to be close to Apple's head custodian's roommate: when the G5 finally ships in a mere three weeks' time, it'll grant its user the ability to make other people's heads explode with the sheer power of thought. Yes, just like in Scanners. See, now you really want one!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/20/01 episode: September 20, 2001: Office is coming to Mac OS X in November; let's see if the viruses follow. Meanwhile, Mike Dell is at it again, this time in the "teeny notebook with big features" category, and an unnamed Motorola exec nearly expires in an apoplexy of laughter when shown the recently leaked G5 specs...
Other scenes from that episode: 3311: Good News And Bad News (9/20/01) Funny thing; yesterday we were all set to tell you folks about Microsoft's upcoming Mac OS X-native version of Office, new details of which had just been made available. We had planned to link to CNET's article about how Office v.X for Mac is slated for a November release, as well as to MacCentral's coverage, which is chock full of feature descriptions and nifty screenshots... 3312: Gee, It's Almost Innovation (9/20/01) Boy, it's a good thing our ill-conceived "no more making fun of Mike Dell" New Year's resolution went straight out the window, because otherwise we'd be in a bit of a bind right about now. On the one hand, we find ourselves wanting to offer a partial retraction for all that stuff we said about Dell's new Dimension 8200 being a rip-off of Apple's current Power Mac G4, enclosure-wise...
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