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...And This Time We MEAN It (2/6/02)
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Heck, what's one false start between friends? Regular viewers are aware that Apple issued a press release yesterday touting the new nVIDIA GeForce4 Titanium graphics card as a build-to-order option for the Power Mac G4; this latest 3D powerhouse reportedly cranks out just under five billion texels per second, thus providing just one more reason for 3D games fanatics of the Mac persuasion to investigate possible methods for funding the purchase of an all-new rig. (Indentured servitude is starting to look pretty good, as is a life of crime.) There was just one teensy little problem with Apple's press release: nVIDIA itself hadn't even announced the product yet. Oopsie. Apple retracted the press release, claiming that it contained "erroneous information."
As it turns out, of course, the only thing "erroneous" about that press release was the day it was issued, because now that nVIDIA has officially launched the GeForce4 line, Apple has re-posted what appears to be the exact same press release with a new date at the top. That's good news for games fans, who may have been concerned that perhaps Apple had left a zero or two out of its original pricing info, but it's not so; the GeForce4 Ti will indeed be a $250-350 option for new Power Macs, and will be available in an upgrade kit for $399 "this spring" for owners of existing 4x AGP systems.
That's not exactly chump change, but neither does it require that potential purchasers ransom a continent or two with a spaceborne orbiting Death Ray. (Yes, we're all about Death Rays these days. So stay on our good side.) We, ourselves, are sorely tempted to start budgeting for a GeForce4 Ti now, purely for the Accuview real-time full-screen antialiasing feature, provided that it's supported on the Mac. Frame rate, shmame rate-- our GeForce3 is plenty fast enough on its own, but nothing ruins the beauty and grace of internal organs arcing majestically through the virtual air like harsh jagged lines. What can we say? We're aesthetes at heart.
Anyway, that's not important right now. What is important is that, despite the company's utterly humorless attitude about nondisclosure agreements and protecting trade secrets, Apple totally screwed up and leaked info about another company's product a day early. Everybody point and laugh! Okay, that's enough.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/6/02 episode: February 6, 2002: You know that GeForce4 press release that Apple recalled? Well, it's back again. Meanwhile, a couple of new iMacs have been spotted with some seriously screwy logo problems, and a senator from the state of Maine comes up with a compromise to the iBook standstill which might need just a little more thought...
Other scenes from that episode: 3551: The Inverted Jenny Of 2002 (2/6/02) We know some people have been insisting that Apple's Quality Control department has been napping on the job for the past couple of years, but personally, we've always had very good luck with our Apple out-of-box experience, so we've generally cut the QC folks a little slack... 3552: Ill-Advised Plan Theater (2/6/02) Maine's laptop saga continues, as Governor King continues to push for his $25 million initiative to outfit all of the state's middle school students with iBooks, while opponents of the plan insist that the money would be better spent on more vital social services in this faltering economy...
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