No new hardware at Macworld SF?
Ahh, Macworld season. You can always tell how close we are to Macworld by the number of rumors swirling around out there on the internets. The closer we get to the big Stevenote the more people that come out of the woodwork with a cousin who's married to a woman who knows a guy that went to college with some dude that waters the plants at Cupertino and he totally said that there will be no Intel Macs. Seriously.The latest rumor comes from Derek Picone, who apparently works with an Apple tech. This tech has weekly phone meetings with Apple execs and they let it be known that they were not required to go to Steve's upcoming keynote. Why should this matter to you? Well, they are usually required to go when Steve is going to announce new computer hardware, therefore if they won't be there neither will new computer hardware.
Personally, I put little stock in any of the rumors that lead up to a Macworld until Macworld eve. That's when all of Apple's secrets are usually laid bare and the surprise is ruined for everyone.
Thanks, Ricky.
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Steven said 9:36AM on 12-16-2005
"...they let it be known that they were requied to go to the keynote, and since they are required to be there when new hardware is announced..."
Could you put that in English, please?
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Grant Hutchins said 9:38AM on 12-16-2005
"an Apple tech who has weekly phone meetings with Apple execs and they let it be known that they were requied to go to the keynote"
I think you left out an important "not" and a less-imporant R.
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sam said 9:43AM on 12-16-2005
I don't buy it. Hardware's the fun stuff, and macworld is a great forum for releasing it. It just makes sense for Apple to combine the two.
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AxsDeny said 9:49AM on 12-16-2005
Dear Scott,
Please proofread your posts. Specifically the important words mentioned by Grant (#2).
Love and Puppy Dogs,
TUAW Readers Everywhere
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Frogbrother said 9:51AM on 12-16-2005
What ever happened to that "Asteroid" audio breakout box?
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Peter Koritschan said 9:57AM on 12-16-2005
hey, whatever they are saying... apple will do everything to keep it on the down low, so my guess is they are just messing with people's heads... my knees don't tell me when the weather changes, but i feel a new hardware itch in them... :)
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Scott McNulty said 10:02AM on 12-16-2005
Thanks everyone for pointing out my typo there. I wrote this a few minutes after I woke up and then I had to run to work.
Stars for all!
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Ricky said 10:25AM on 12-16-2005
haha, im famous!!
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cyberdork said 10:45AM on 12-16-2005
Haha, funny how some high school (or college) kid can stir such a rumor on major Apple news sites.
This story was on digg a few hours ago and at that point his blog entry looked a bit different. He wrote: That there is an Apple Care Technician [e.g. low level repairman] at his SCHOOL who told him that once a week he has a conference call with high level Apple execs [yeah, sure]. And they told him that there would be no intel macs released in January.
Sounds very credible, doesn't it.
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icerabbit said 10:46AM on 12-16-2005
With Apple many times things don't really make sense ( products, features, update cycles, etc. ) and even what Apple says they do, will have or will not have you can't believe.
It's all about patience.
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cyberdork said 11:45AM on 12-16-2005
http://digg.com/apple/No_Intel_at_Macworld_
This is the link to the digg story which was pulled from the frontpage.
Read the comments to get a better impression about how this was initially reported on the kids blog.
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Brian said 3:06PM on 12-16-2005
Many diggs at digg.com are nothing more than questionable, dubious, or controversial information posted on someone's blog (that has Adsense ads) in a lame attempt to generate ad revenue.
http://digg.com/users/DEIx15x8/profile
Go figure.
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