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This article could use some coverage of the mistakes in the 'leak'. For example, it mentions a new Macbook which 'Looks gorgeous at 0.8" thin' (this is obviously the Air), but then goes on to say 'DVD drive pops open on side when eject button is pressed'. The Air has no optical drive! This is a major
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computers. At least in form, it would be plausible if not earthshaking, and as some people pointed out, the real speech is presumably undergoing frequent last-minute changes. This means the actual keynote could be different and makes it impossible to definitively disprove the leak, part of what makes
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The choice of the talk page is interesting, suggesting that the poster understood Knowledge (XXG) editing practices well enough that source material wouldn't be appropriate to dump directly into the article. For that matter, one could wonder why Knowledge (XXG) was chosen at all, as opposed to the
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for the article about the conference itself. The IP address, 216.170.223.41, has a limited contribution history and traces to an ISP serving Wisconsin and neighboring states. Its appearance sparked a bit of discussion on the talk page and a brief edit war over whether it belonged there at all - it
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error - it's not like the engineers could decide a few days before the Expo that they were going to take out the optical drive. That decision had to be made many weeks or months before - thus the leak is either a very old version (unlikely) or an insightful fabrication (much more likely). --
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in San Francisco. His address is typically expected to include a major announcement or two, such as new product offerings. The leadup to the event thus fuels a dizzying amount of speculation in the active online community of Apple users and fans.
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Identifying itself as a "Rough Outline; draft 5", the document goes through highlights of various Apple products Jobs would presumably discuss during his keynote. Included are the
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to Knowledge (XXG), sparking a flurry of blog speculation and analysis. While its potential validity was largely downplayed, its appearance still garnered considerable attention.
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picked it up, although most thought it likely to be fake, possibly even active disinformation being circulated by Apple. Bryan Gardiner of
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that it "seems to suspiciously mirror the popular rumors that have gained credence over the past month". On the other hand,
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Macworld ritually kicks off with the Jobs keynote Tuesday, 15 January, at the
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Last week an unregistered contributor posted what was allegedly a draft of
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on January 15, however did not contain any of the material in the leak.
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he was inclined to accept the document - "It sounds real." Steve Jobs
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Supposed advance draft of Jobs keynote surfaces on talk page
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project created specifically for this type of material.
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