" MacWEEK described it as a " fine, inexpensive replacement for the Macintosh Plus that best embodies the original Macintosh vision six and a half years later ".

MacWEEK was a controlled-circulation weekly Apple Macintosh trade journal based in San Francisco founded by Michael Tchong, John Anderson, Glenn Patch, Dick Govatski, and Michael F. Billings.

Later, he moved to the weekly Macintosh trade journal MacWEEK as a reviews editor.

Latterly, the industry of Macintosh rumor speculation, began with a regular column in the now defunct MacWEEK magazine called " Mac the Knife " and written under a pseudonym.

MacWEEK magazine reported on July 10, 1990 that Apple had paid $ 1 million to Modular Computer Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Daimler-Benz AG, for the right to use the " Classic " name as part of a five-year contract.

At the time of its founding, Mac Publishing's holdings included a unified Macworld under the banner Macworld incorporating MacUser as well as Ziff-Davis's MacWEEK.

* February 2001 In a move to assert the dominance of the Macworld brand among its brands including MacCentral. com and MacWEEK. com, Mac Publishing redirects Maccentral. com traffic to a subdomain of Macworld. com.

In March, Computer Reseller News reported it was being readied for April, but by August MacWEEK reported it to be " a month away " and a November issue claimed that the documentation was complete but the program was not.

Vulcan Ventures first invested in ZDTV, a network that supplemented content from Ziff-Davis ' computer and technology based print publications ( at the time including PC Magazine, MacWEEK, and eWEEK ), in November 1998, acquiring a one-third interest from Ziff-Davis.

Version 1 received " 5 mice " from MacUser and 4 stars from MacWEEK.

* History of the " flipping " of the product are taken from a series of releases in MacWEEK magazines

The online edition of MacWEEK continued for several years, originally under the editorial management of MacWEEK staff members and later under the management of former Macworld editors.

Mac the Knife was the pen name ( inspired by the homophonous well-known song " Mack the Knife ") of an anonymous gossip columnist for the ( now defunct ) Apple Macintosh-focused trade publication MacWEEK.

Mac the Knife was always written by a single writer, but the identity of that writer changed more than once over the long publishing history of MacWEEK.

MacWEEK was later transformed into an online entity and a short-lived print magazine called eMediaWeekly.

In March 2001, Macworld folded the trade-focused MacWEEK into MacCentral MacCentral was folded into the Macworld brand over a period of several years.

" At the time, MacWEEK was published by Ziff Davis Media, which also ran the monthly video game magazine Computer Gaming World.

Robert Hess was an associate editor for the magazine MacWEEK and a notable Apple evangelist.

He has also written many technical books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series in the 1990s, books on Eudora and iPhoto, and magazine articles for MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld.

During most of its existence, the cabal ( sometimes capitalized ) steadfastly denied its own existence ; those involved would often respond " There is no Cabal " ( sometimes abbreviated as " TINC "), whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.

In his short story " Crabs on the Island " ( 1958 ) Anatoli Dneprov speculated on the idea that since the replication process is never 100 % accurate, leading to slight differences in the descendants, over several generations of replication the machines would be subjected to evolution similar to that of living organisms.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

Dyson speculated that such structures would be the logical consequence of the long-term survival and escalating energy needs of a technological civilization, and proposed that searching for evidence of the existence of such structures might lead to the detection of advanced intelligent extraterrestrial life.

In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.

In his old age, Engels speculated about a new cosmology or ontology which would show the principles of dialectics to be universal features of reality.

From this, archaeologist David Romano speculated that a stadium racecourse of 170 – 180 meters would have been enclosed within the hippodrome.

It has been speculated that if Finland had not joined the euro, market fluctuations such as the tech bubble would have reflected as wild fluctuations in the price of markka.

Also it has been speculated that the Bigfoot appears to be nearly seven feet tall when Heironimus was only six foot two and Heironimus was also not as bulky as the creature but a suit would prohibit a reasonable comparison.

In 2001 glaciologist Charles R. Bentley estimated that the tent with the bodies was under about 75 feet ( 23 m ) of ice and about 30 miles ( 48 km ) from the point where they died ; he speculated that in about 275 years the bodies would reach the Ross Sea, and perhaps float away inside an iceberg.

However, these views have been disputed by, among others, the late Carl Sagan, who speculated that any technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilization would be advanced ethically as well, and would not be aggressive, and that humanity would, due to the extraterrestrial civilization's technological prowess, reciprocate this non-aggression.

John Doerr speculated that it would be more important than the Internet.

Many also speculated that Super Bowl XXIX would be the least watched game in Super Bowl history.

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

While his biographer, Tim Pat Coogan, speculated that questions surrounding de Valera's legitimacy may have been a deciding factor in his not entering religious life, being illegitimate would have been a bar to receiving orders only as a secular or diocesan cleric, not as a member of a religious order.

When the law was being passed, it was speculated it would be overturned again as soon as an administration without the Greens was in power.

After the Whigs ' decisive victory in the 1831 election, some speculated that opponents would abstain, rather than openly defy the public will.

Accused of speculating in Marconi shares on the inside information that they were about to be awarded a key government contract ( which would have caused them to increase in value ), he told the House of Commons that he had not speculated in the shares of " that company ", which was not the whole truth as he had in fact speculated in shares of Marconi's American sister company.

Modern scholars have speculated that it would be impossible to cover offices as pontifex and consul for a blind man for more than twenty years.

In the second half of the 5th century BC, particularly at Athens, " sophist " came to denote a class of mostly itinerant intellectuals who taught courses in various subjects, speculated about the nature of language and culture and employed rhetoric to achieve their purposes, generally to persuade or convince others: " Sophists did, however, have one important thing in common: whatever else they did or did not claim to know, they characteristically had a great understanding of what words would entertain or impress or persuade an audience.

" Johann Hari of The Independent speculated that the work would come to be recognised " as the greatest play of its time ".

Also in 1999, it was speculated by analysts that Pokémon species, in particular Charmander and others, would become sought-after toys.