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Massive WWDC Rumor Roundup
An anonymous reader writes "MacRumors.com posted a massive rumor roundup of all the major rumors surrounding Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference which starts next week. There's been talk of 970 PowerMacs, PowerBooks and Panther... seems like the biggest uncertainty is whether or not 970 PowerMacs will ship or not."
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Pffffff, rumors about rumors. Come on, we've heard this all before. Apple produces nice stuff, but that cult thing that is going on here at /. is ridiculous. Don't you have anything useful to do? ... oh ... discussing over and over what apple might do is useful?
Hey SlashDot losers, hop on the clue bus! Nobody gives a shit.
I have to agree with others that have posted, is this really the place for a topic like this? If some /. readers want Mac rumours, I'm sure they can find them somewhere else. There was already a topic on the 970s, isn't that enough?
This seems to be the business model at Apple:
:-(
1. Spread rumors.
2. Get mentioned at Slashdot.
3. Everyone jeers and boos.
4. ???
5. Loss
Why should we read about rumors from a company that 98% of the nice world (except the US) doesn't think much about?
Rumors from Microsoft are a different matter. Billyboy resigns and takes up Buddhism? We're all ears. MS to bundle SCOde into LongHorn? You don't say!
Apple rumors aren't tasty.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
I think you mean that to be a M.A.C. user, you have to suck balls.
.1 patches to OSX before he has to actually roll out hardware that is not 1/3 the speed of comparible wintel trash. My bet is you might see 1.4 Ghz 970 laptops by Q3 04 if they are lucky. And by then, PC laptops will be running what - 3Ghz on the low end systems. Sucks to be you, M.A.C. fanboi.
Face it, whatever actual new products they announce will not ship for 4 months at least (17" PB delay ring a bell?).
But Jobs doesn't have to worry - all the slurping fanboi's will buy a couple more 100 dollar
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
Thanks for your letter. Being Catholic myself, I know exactly what you're talking about! It has always been our plan here at Apple Computer Inc to revolutionize personal computing with our high-quality and highly gay products.
I'm happy to answer your letter by letting you know that YES we will be releasing an entire hLife ("homo-life") software line. You'll be able to recognize it in stores by the small stylized logo depicting a large cock entering a tight anus with an Apple logo on it. ("Suddenly it all comes together" indeed!).
Anyway, I hope you and other members of our community will join us on our mission, and purchase the exciting new hLife boxed set. Only the boxed set comes with translucent cock rings!
Sincerely,
Harry Rodman
Vice-president
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Unfortunately, Taco et al have drank the Jobs Kool-Aide and have become little more than a drooling fanboy WRT Apple's hardware. Thus, they ignore apple's many shortcomings, including price, compatibility, their obnoxious hardware design, etc. As Apple is the last computer maker to head into the modern era with a 64 bit processor -- something other makers have had for months, if not years -- they're trying to generate hype for themselves and other fanboys so they can keep saying to themselves that the money they spent on the crapware from cupertino was somehow worth it.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
I wouldn't worry about these TROLL ALERTERS too much. It's rather like screaming "she's a witch!" when confronted with an argument you cannot counter or a personality you cannot dominate.
Slashdot needs TROLL ALERTERS like it needs Father Randy Pudge.
Worst of all, it's an attempt to stifle the art of provocative argument, which is one of the most valuable skills in debating.
That was classic intercourse!