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Columns: RumorsAbout This ParticularRumorRumors from our reliablesources around the globe.BY THE ATPM STAFFeditor@atpm.comWelcome To ATPRAs a special feature, ATPM has gone to great pains in contacting its sources all over the globe,and even aboard the international space station. The staff spared no cost, went without sleepfor days, and lived exclusively off root beer and dried chipmunk sandwiches to gather theseconfirmed facts. Our correspondents under the White House desk have hacked the CIA filesto confirm every little detail, and we are proud to break these news items first, right here,right now. You might see this on AppleInsider a month from now, but remember, you saw ithere first! If any of these news stories turn out to be wrong, it wasn't our fault. We reportedthe truth, but to cover their tracks companies might have maliciously altered their productsand services make us look bad. Don't be fooled; they are trying to trick you. What follows isthe truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us Gil.PowerBook 105: IcebergBy now it is of course common knowledge that a new series of PowerBooks, featuring the G4processor, will be announced by Apple shortly, probably at Macworld Expo San Francisco inearly 2001. (See this page 1 for details.) But let’s face it: G4s are old hat. Who wants old technologythat’s been available for months and months? Fortunately, we have some good newsfor all of you who are thinking about buying a PowerBook, but want to wait for a truly stunningproduct.An ATPM source high up in Apple’s hierarchy (we naturally can’t give his name, but he usesthe same coffee machine as Steve Jobs himself!) informs us that Apple is already hard at workdesigning the PowerBook G5. With a built-in 2 MB level 2 cache and SuperRage 264 graphicscard, this thing really flies! Motorola is totally incapable of manufacturing them at thistime, but Apple has gotten a few test units from IBM, running at 1.2 GHz. That clock speedis much slower than what IBM hopes to have ready when the product is released, though.1. http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/03/19/0324g4laptop.htmlATPM 6.04 ← 40 →Columns: Rumors