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This article could use some coverage of the mistakes in the 'leak'. For example, it mentions a new
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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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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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