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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
I think this ultimately fails as an April Fool's Day prank. Shouldn't there be some humor involved? I always thought a good prank worked like this: you initially fall for it, but then after it's revealed as a hoax, you go back and look at the article (or ad or whatever) again and only then do you see the absurd little details, and you think "Wow, what a fool I was to fall for that!"
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Not necessarily - the idea of April Fool's is to fool people, as apparently has happened to CNN, the NY Times, and others, regarding Google's April 1st gmail announcement. Check the front page of CNN for more: Google to offer free mega-email.
At the end of the day, if you made someone think it might have been real, then you've succeeded at an April Fool's day prank. The one rule I follow is to try to not do anything that might lead someone to hurt themselves or others... -rob.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Rob, as weird as this may sound, I think it's legit. Either that, or Google is doing one hellishly good job with that prank, as I've heard rumors about Google offering free webmail for a while ... they must've been laying the groundwork early.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Google will offer free web mail. The aspect that makes this one seem particularly April Fools-ish is the 1gigabyte of storage per person. Consider 100,000,000 users of Google at a gigabyte each...
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Hmm ... now they have more info up, and they do claim 1gb. Either it's real, or it's the most elaborate prank ever :).
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
This is Google's April Fools Joke:
gmail
con 1. no link in the CNN article (may be de rigeur for CNN - not my source of choice).
con 2. nothing on google.com front page
pro 1. see gmail.com
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
The 1GB Google webmail thing certainly seems suspect (and it'd be an odd choice to release something so drastic on April 1st), but although my first thought was "obvious prank", it's not entirely infeasable;
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Google Mail is not an April Fools joke.
Gmail not a hoax...
From CNN:
However, Google's one gigabyte of storage claim led to some speculation about the Gmail announcement being a hoax since it took place on April Fool's Day. Google has pulled April Fool's jokes on the tech community before, including jokes about pigeons being the driving force behind Google's search technology and that Google was looking to start a new research center on the moon. In addition, the press release about Gmail was fairly goofy, including lines such as "Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born." But Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president of the products group at Google, said the Gmail announcement was legitimate. He did concede that the company did get caught up in the spirit of April Fool's Day in its press release. ---
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
So what was (is) the final determination? Was this a hoax or not. Our esteemed webmaster sure seemed to think it was. Other highly-acclaimed folks in the Mac community said it was legit.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Here's the little absurdity: do you really think that if Apple built a 3 CPU Mac, they'd put the plastic handle to remove the CPU fans off-centre?
HAHAHA
u made me laff :)
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Actually, this worked great on me. Before reading past the headline, I opened a new window to Apple's site, and saw nothing about it, went to MacCentral, nothing. Go back to macosxhints, and read the date under the headline, there is the first clue.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Indeed, I tried to bury enough stuff to make it just believable but completely impossible.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
well. and maybe the fact that computer's CPU *must* come in pairs (inside one system), they cannot be odd-numbered. It's just the way it works, somebody more knowledgeable of the fine details can fill me in here, but rest assured, the fact is this.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Explain the single CPU system, then...8-)
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Then a Google search on "three-processor computer" shouldn't turn up any links at all, right?
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
and maybe the fact that computer's CPU *must* come in pairs (inside one system), they cannot be odd-numbered. Back when Sequent made hardware they made boxes with the CPUs on cards, you could use one or two CPUs per card and plug up to 16 or so into the box. It was a shared memory box, so if you put 3 CPUs in it would be like a 3 CPU G5. Well except I think they were 16Mhz CPUs, but that was pretty fast back then.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
You are right, you are not geeky enough to get the humor. For whatever reason, (I'm not geeky enough to understand why) multiprocessor machines are built on powers of 2. The next logical step past dual processors is quad and then pipe dreams are built on 8 and 16 CPU machines.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
The three CPUs was what made it obvious -- no-one in the world makes a 3-CPU machine. Another hint is it having both PCI-X and AGP: IIRC, PCI-X is a replacement for AGP.
Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Actually, that part is true -- it was cut and pasted directly from the original Dual G5 press release. The PCI-X they are referring to is a high-speed PCI slot, not the PCI-X replacement for AGP slot. Confusing but true ... the Duals have both PCI-X slots and an AGP 8x slot. |
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