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Now you too can generate Mac rumors just like the professionals do! All you have to do is select one of the options in each of the pop up menus below; when you're done, just print the rumor out or copy it and email it to your favorite news site! If you go to all the trouble of creating a rumor, why not get credit for it too!
Choose a SOURCE Unnamed sources A little bird A clerk at CompUSA A former Apple Employee A visitor to the Apple Campus let slip a little info from Choose a SOURCE LOCATION Apple's development partner Microsoft's Mac Business Office their confidential arrangement with Apple the trash can at 1 Ellipse one of the rumormongers on the Mac Web Cupertino this week when they revealed that the rumored Choose a PIECE OF HARDWARE G4 G5 iMac Powerbook iBook Airport Base Station Apple-Branded PDA Consumer-oriented Web device new generation Newton Flat-panel screen Flat-panel iMac rejuvenated Cube MacOS on Intel machine Digital Hub device we've been hearing about lately has reached the Choose a GREEK LETTER Alpha Beta Gamma Upsilon Nu Chi Delta Omega stage of development. This new offering from Apple has the following characteristics: Choose a PROCESSOR 500 Mhz G3 600 Mhz G3 867 MHz G4 1.3 GHz G4 4.3 GHz G5 27 GHz G6 Pentium (if you can believe that) processor with Choose an AMOUNT OF RAM 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1024 MB 2 GB 4 GB More RAM than GOD RAM, and Choose a HD SIZE 10 GB 20 GB 60 GB 0.1 TeraByte 20 TeraByte unimaginably huge hard drive, including Choose a SPINDLE CD CD-R CD-RW DVD player SuperDrive new device that reads everything from LP's to DVD-RAM , Choose a PORT TYPE USB USB 2 FireWire serial parallel Ethernet 1000 BT Ethernet Fiber-optic brainwave port, and a Choose a PORT TYPE USB USB 2 FireWire serial parallel Ethernet 1000 BT Ethernet Fiber-optic brainwave port as well. It also features the Choose a GIZMO Airport networking system Slot loading drive Flat Screen VR helmet RDF transmitter which will allow unprecedented performance.
Now, rumors are rumors, but I have good reason to believe this source because it was confirmed by Choose ANOTHER SOURCE Unnamed sources A little bird A clerk at CompUSA A former Apple Employee A visitor to the Apple Campus which was successful in predicting that the rumor about Choose a FAILED RUMOR Apple-Disney buyout flat-screen iMac Son of Pismo Mike Dell wants to be Steve Jobs demise of the beleaguered company free iMac Giveaway at Staples was, as everyone now knows, false.
Choose a SOURCE Unnamed sources A little bird A clerk at CompUSA A former Apple Employee A visitor to the Apple Campus also confirms that the new machine will have a unique enclosure, reinforcing Apple's leadership in the design of computers. This machine, code-named Choose a CODE NAME PISMO QUICKSILVER COCOA CARBON The "DEL" in San Diego IRON GIANT AMPICILLIN GOLDENEYE SHAZBOT NOT A CODE NAME NAUGAHYDE CARDIGAN WONKA GATES OF HELL , will sport a Choose an ENCLOSURE Titanium Molybdenum Californium Isaac Hayesium Pixarium Aquarium enclosure which will be available in the following colors: Choose a COLOR Indigo Snow , Choose ANOTHER COLOR Indigo Snow Ruby Lime Sapphire Watermelon Compaq Puke Pink , and Choose YET ANOTHER COLOR Indigo Snow Ruby Lime Sapphire Watermelon Compaq Puke Pink Mike Dell Baby Blue Taupe Glow in the Dark green Mildly phosphorescent orange with just a touch of purple. .
Photos of the rumored machine were posted at Choose a RUMOR SITE LEM's Rumor Mill AppleInsider MacOS Rumors CNNÉn , but have been pulled from the site at the request of Apple's legal department. For a fortunate few, pictures were also temporarily available at Choose ANOTHER RUMOR SITE LEM's Rumor Mill AppleInsider MacOS Rumors CNNÉn Microsoft.com , but reports indicate these pictures were no longer available as of 11.27 AM Guyana Time yesterday.
Also lending credence to the rumor are reports from Choose a SOURCE Unnamed sources A little bird A clerk at CompUSA A former Apple Employee A visitor to the Apple Campus which indicate that the availability of Choose a PIECE OF HARDWARE G4 G5 iMac Powerbook iBook Airport Base Station Apple-Branded PDA Consumer-oriented Web device new generation Newton Flat-panel screen Flat-panel iMac rejuvenated Cube MacOS on Intel machine Digital Hub device has been restricted at Choose a VENDOR CompUSA Fry's MacWarehouse ComputerWare-disappeareo the Apple Store Circuit City Staples Safeway/Krogers/IGA Uncle Buford's Spit'n'Sit ; and that the inventory codes for this hardware at CompUSA have suddenly changed to Choose an INVENTORY CODE Out of Stock End of Life DOA BYOB End of The Known Universe CompUSA Wintel Employee Finally Gets It .
You have to decide for yourself whether or not this information is accurate; but until we all know for sure pending the announcement at Choose a PLACE APPLE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENTS MacWorld NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) The Electronics Expo The Flea Market downtown Mac OS Rumors the White House Steve Jobs' Big Jet the next Beatles concert Low End Mac! I guess we'll just have to keep reading those rumors!