i**** v2 & beyond !  

Oh my god, it must be 68k!

Definitely not Kormac. Got my name right.

So kormac. What was the iPod on your radar? An i****?

Two things going for Kormac77:

1.) He post(ed) early. Kormac76 always posted about the same time.

2.) He always edited his post almost immediately. Kormac76 had a habit of doing this, too.

But editing what? I say to make his native-tongue ENGLISH sound less native.

So, my radiological detection device is pointing to the positive.

Sounds a lot like the old kormac, from pidgin English right down to the staggering of posts ("part 2 later") but so what, the whole i**** just got boring last time.

Always glad to see a Kormac post. So the i**** v2 is soon to arrive? Do you have any more recent info on it? Processor? OS? HWR? Size?

Hi Kormac, (if indeed it really is you)... It is good to see you posting on the boards again. I for one am hoping that your ideas are spot on this time around...

Are you hinting that the i**** v.2 will have many of the same parts (e.g. 5gb Hard drive) as the iPod? If so, it seems that the i***2 would be enhanced by what, a larger screen? A decent chip?

Does any of this have to do with the firewire port on the iPod? Could the iPod connect to v2 to give it the HD it needs (and with which it is not sold?)

Mandricard
AppleOutsider

By the way, Kormac, just for my peace of mind, If you recall us chatting around the time of MacWorld NY 2000, we had chatted about doing something together, but never managed to meet up at the expo.

You can now send me a private message (I think) on these boards, or just mention it in a post, letting me know you remember, and thereby verifying that it is indeed you, for we have had our share of imposters around here, as you can probably imagine.

Keep posting!

Mandricard
AppleOutsider

Sounds like a good idea Mandricard.

kormac, what moer can you tell us about the Raycer chip and the Domino chip?

Also, what do you know about Gigawire? Is it Firewire2? Is it wireless Firewire?

I don't know, he doesn't quite "sound" the same to me....

I wonder how many times people have to get spoofed before they stop believing every joker who either A) says he knows something secret or B) pretends to be somebody from the old AI?

Oh, geez, not again....

SdC

Kormac76 was truly full of shit. He knew nothing. And if you are he, you know nothing aswell. Anyone can talk in vague hypothetical terms, pillage a few tech developmentsw from other comapnies in the industry and pass it off as rumor. Till the day you die I will keep telling people that you DID NOT predict the GOOD BETTER BEST iMacs. According to you they were to have LCD screens for nearly the past two years already. If you are the original Kormac either post something real or just shut up. If you're just an imitator... Have a nice day.

You're just jealous because his imagination is better than yours.

Lighten up. This is supposed to be fun.

Listen up people. Kormac has nothing. According to him we were supposed to be carrying uber PDAs for the last year, been using flat panel iMacs with different size screens for the past two years, and using an iMac with all manner of digital, TV, stereo I/O and recordingt and playback functions built-in since last spring.

uber PDA's will come in the form of Palm OS 5.O on StrongArm (type) chips. You don't need an insider to predict that. Also A-V will eventually achieve full computer integration. You don't need any info to predict that either. It's all stuff that the whole industry is doing, it doesn't take any imagination to say that Appl is on it too. Well duh?

But Kormac has the added distinction of being patently wrong in all of his specific details. Imagination? sure. Insight? Nada.

id bet my left nut this guy is a fake kormac.

[quote]Originally posted by cinder:
<strong>You're just jealous because his imagination is better than yours.

Lighten up. This is supposed to be fun.
</strong><hr></blockquote>

"Here's a neat idea, wouldn't this be cool..." is fun.

Pretending you have inside info, and specifically telling everybody that you have concrete details on products soon to be released by Apple.... that's just lying.

Well, actually, that's your opinion since we can't prove anything either way.

and I'll be damned if he ever used the word 'concrete'

it's merely information peppered with imagination and speculation.

You know, rumors.


and if anyone can make this stuff up, have it make some sense . . . well go ahead.
If nothing else, the bits of information he puts together are interesting.

You know what, if he is full of sh*t then so what? Instead of discussing what or who kormac is, lets just discuss what he proposes, it always generates some very good discussion. These are discussion boards, right?

If you do not like what he/she has to say then simply do not read it.

I have always enjoyed kormac's post's. If it's you, welcome back!

[quote]Originally posted by Matsu:
<strong>Listen up people. Kormac has nothing.
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But Kormac has the added distinction of being patently wrong in all of his specific details. Imagination? sure. Insight? Nada.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Regardless, I enjoy Kormac's posts more than I do yours. Imagination is life.

Perhaps you don't remember the cryptic cloak and dagger bullsh!t. Hey Kormac, DOMINO DOMINO DOMINO!!!

Before the site went down there was this little cult of Kormac a$$ lickers eating up his huge heaping piles of crap.

Why don't we take the sum total of his posts then and see what they said.

iMacs (the way he predicted them) Good Better Best, to have LCDs of different sizes almost 2 years ago! HA!

i****v1
i****v2 both to be some kind of Newton/emate organizer/media player with all sorts of integration. What did we get? FVCK ALL! Now he's trying to spin iPod into the mold of his predictions about the overall digital strategy. Well fact is he NEVER mentioned anything like it. iPod is an essentially single purpose design that does it's single purpose very well. It's secondary use exists as a no cost extra convenience -- the parts were already there, so why not a firewire HDD too -- but IT WILL NOT move beyond that (barring, perhaps, some voice recording). ALL of Kormac's posts were about multifunction. Evidence ***DOMINO*** the ultimate media hub, powered by mac, set-top, slate, slab, thingy device.

Overall, he's only been pointing at general trends. If it happens it's because the whole industry is moving in those directions anyway. honestly, who doesn't have a web pad, a wireless internet device, a consumer A/V machine, and PDA's under development, in prototype, and in focus group/feasibility study? NONE, of the major players.

Rumor requires specifics, proof, you know, evidence? What Kormac has given you is speculation at first dressed up as rumor. With big piles of "Oh, I can't reveal this right now, or I don't know when this is coming" When pressed about his poor record Kormac quickly back-tracked on his former insider persona with quips of "Oh, I'm not an insider anymore, I just like to post here, I like you guy... etc" &lt;-- and fix your f-ing grammar for sh!t sakes, these lame attempts at fake Korean ESL syntax are making me nuts.

I remember that you are full of it. I'm not gonna let others forget the steaming piles you've passed in here before. Your BS insider ploy won't work this time.

PS. If you're just an imitator, then disregard this little rant. If someone can verify whether this is the original Kormac please let me know, so I can start to lay into him a bit.

So currently we have Kormac75, Kormac76, and Kormac77. Are there others that I'm missing?

Bad form Matsu,

I do remember the old Kormac quite well. And indeed I remember him attaching caveates to the effect that a lot of which he spoke was partly conjecture.

You need to lighten up. It's been a year, and your still not over it.

Fine...

go Kormac go... away!

Kormac = Morkac

[quote]Originally posted by sizzle chest:
<strong>

"Here's a neat idea, wouldn't this be cool..." is fun.

Pretending you have inside info, and specifically telling everybody that you have concrete details on products soon to be released by Apple.... that's just lying.</strong><hr></blockquote>

sizzle chest - nicely put.

Macintosh - please read above. It's also not too late for an apology.

Has macintosh even posted in this thread?

[quote]Originally posted by Matsu:
<strong>Has macintosh even posted in this thread?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Hes referring to the mastergator incident...
And I think he already did apologize.

-Paul

I thought it was Mastergating which come to think of it is a nice conflation of masturbating and mastigating (both apt discriptors of fora in general). One might also see colorations of Gates as master, or an assortment of D&D type characters in there. A good name. From a proud family.

[quote]Originally posted by Matsu:
<strong>I thought it was Mastergating which come to think of it is a nice conflation of masturbating and mastigating (both apt discriptors of fora in general). One might also see colorations of Gates as master, or an assortment of D&D type characters in there. A good name. From a proud family.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Err, yeah my bad... I was thinking food (Master Baster... Mmmmmmm....)

-Paul

[quote]Originally posted by psantora:
<strong>

Hes referring to the mastergator incident...
And I think he already did apologize.

-Paul</strong><hr></blockquote>

Did he? I must have missed it. I certainly read his confession and the parts where he re-lived his great prank but I didn't see the part where he apologized.

wasnt the whole "forgive me father" thing an apology with a twist? like didnt he say sorry if you got pissed but that was the idea or something like that?
-Paul