- Hello, and welcome to This Is,
where I have a very special
guest on the show today.
The one and only iJustine.
How's it going?
- It's going well.
I'm very nervous about a trivia.
I'm so scared.
- The thing is,
we have tailored this
game specifically for you.
Because you are out of everyone I know,
by far the biggest Apple nerd.
I feel like looking
through these questions,
you've got a good shot.
- Alright, I'm ready.
I'm gonna do my best,
but sometimes my best
might not be good enough,
but that's okay.
(laughs)
- Well, the good thing is,
all you do is hit 50% success rate.
So we're going to ask you
two questions per product.
First of all, the product name,
there's a little bit of wiggle room.
So if you're very close,
we'll give you the point,
but get as close as possible,
as well as the year that
these device came out,
and we were giving you a plus
or minus one year handicap.
So let's say something came out in 2005,
it looks up 2004 or 2006
as a correct answer.
- Okay.
Beyond that, of course we have
our classic This Is wager.
If you can get that 50%,
then we will tweet whatever it is,
that you want, from our Twitter account.
Rather than that, are you ready to begin
the "Who wants to be a Mac smarty pants?"
I think we need a better title for this.
- You could've done who wants
to be a Mac millionaire?
Like, are you kidding me?
That was handed to you.
(laughs)
- [Matt] We already did that one.
We're in a pending lawsuit.
- Yeah, we've been told We
can't say who wants to be a
rich person or whatever
that show is called.
We were not allowed to say no.
- That's true.
Okay, who wants to be
a, I'll think about it.
- Okay, all right.
Let's begin with question number one.
Oh, Oh.
- Is this the.
- While you're thinking about it,
keep in mind there's no time limit.
Think about it as long as you want,
walk us through your thought process, and,
just keeping in mind that
you have 10 questions.
You do have one lifeline
available, which is Phone-a-Ken.
- At first I wanted to
say it was the Lisa,
but it definitely isn't because
I feel like the Lisa only
had like one little, like drive on it.
So it's not that.
Well maybe they're, I don't
know if there was like,
two different versions because this,
this basic setup kind of
looks like the Apple Lisa,
without that, whatever is on top of it.
I'm not, I'm actually
not sure what that is.
And then the Lisa, I feel
like only had one drive.
Now I'm just gonna say the Lisa in 1983.
I don't think it is, but it looks like it.
- iJustine, you have dazzled audiences
for many, many years with your
wonderful Apple knowledge.
And on question number one,
your gut was 100% right.
This is, in fact the very first,
1983 Lisa, congratulations!
- Wait, really?
Oh my God.
(laughs)
- You almost talked
yourself out of that one.
So, I think what you're thinking
about the Lisa 2 only had
one disc drive,
but the original Lisa
actually did ship like this.
- Okay, so because I was
doing research because
all of the ones that I was trying to find,
I guess were the Lisa 2s then, on eBay.
So those were, I like this one.
I don't even like, this
was not even showing up.
- Officially, Lisa stood for the
Locally Integrated Software Architecture.
Certainly not anyone's
daughter or anything.
- Okay, sure Steve, come on now.
- All right, well,
you're doing good so far,
so let's move on to question number two.
- Okay, well that's,
obviously the Apple mouse.
I mean it looks exactly like
the same mouse that was on,
the Apple Lisa,
but I do feel like they might've
had something before that.
But I'm just gonna say that
life without being able to
google something sucks.
(laughs)
I'll just say,
maybe 82 just to kinda, you know,
cause maybe it's earlier.
Okay, I don't know, it's a freaking mouse.
Okay, It's a mouse, it's
a clicker, a clicker.
But, I don't, cause, I'm just gonna say,
I'm gonna say a mouse 1982.
(laughs)
- All right, the Apple clicker mouse.
(laughs)
You get 50% points on this.
It is in fact, just the Macintosh mouse.
That was the official name of this mouse.
But it was birthed in 1983,
which means you still get 50% points.
- Oh my goodness.
- I was specifically told I
cannot accept anything like just
the Apple mouse, since
obviously that is what it is.
But, you're still doing good.
You're still at 75% points right now.
- I will never forget that,
if I'm ever on jeopardy
or something, I'll say,
what is the Macintosh mouse?
(laughs)
- Let's move on to item number three.
- I mean, it looks like
one of the first Mac minis,
but it also, I'm gonna need
a higher res image please.
(laughs)
- We need you more pixels.
- This to me looks like,
like the packaging for,
like an iPod shuffle.
But it also kind of looks like a Mac mini.
Like one of the first Mac minis.
And this would have been
back around the time
that I was on MySpace,
if this is a Mac mini.
- Okay, tell me more about MySpace.
I think most of the people watching this
have never even heard of it.
(laughs)
- I ran it, a scam on MySpace,
it was actually not a scam.
It was kinda like one of those
pyramid things where, okay,
you get like 10, 15 people to sign up
under this affiliate link,
and then you get something.
So I got iPods,
and then I also got a Mac
mini from this little scam.
So it wasn't actually,
it wasn't actually a scam
'cause people were actually getting stuff.
- Hey, we all did weird
stuff on the internet.
(laughs)
- It's true, that's true.
I'm gonna say 2003.
- All right, so for question number three,
is this the 2003 Mac mini, or,
is it the 2008
AirPort Time Capsule, which
is the correct answer?
- Stop it, I never heard that.
This is, now everybody knows how old I am.
- This is apples very
first wireless router.
So if you actually look at a photo of it,
it actually is similar to the Mac mini,
but it is a little different.
That first Mac mini was actually aluminum
where I believe this was plastic.
And it also the Mac mini didn't have that
little sort of line around the front.
- That's great, I've actually
never used time capsule.
I never use time machine.
I never used that at all.
- I've only owned, I think
I owned an AirPort Extreme,
for a few years there,
and that's pretty much it.
I never used really into these,
and I've never opened a time capsule once.
All right, let's move on
to question number four.
- Oh, we're in trouble,
cause I actually don't know what this is.
I mean, it's obviously some
sort of a gaming console
and I feel like this is
something that I should know.
I'm embarrassed, and ,I've
seen it, but I don't,
I am actually, I don't
know what it's called.
I have no idea.
- Well, before we get too far into it,
if you think you're gonna be wildly off,
you could take advantage
of your Phone-a-Ken.
He's a little bit early in the game,
but I'm just saying like,
that is a possibility,
especially if you don't think
you have a good shot at it
now I would probably be a good time,
unless you want to save it
for one of the later ones.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
Let's phone, let's phone, let's do it.
This is iJustine, hello.
I'm phoning you, and I need help.
I'm desperate.
- [Ken] I kinda know what
this thing is, kind of.
- You kind of know what it is?
- [Ken] It's the Apple Pippin.
- Apple Pippin, oh my gosh.
Yes, okay.
Do you-
- But I don't know the year.
- No, no, times up!
So I'm gonna say, Apple Pippin, 1992.
- 1992, Apple Pippin.
iJustine, on question number
four, you are 50% correct?
It is in fact the Apple
Pippin, but it is from 1994.
So just outside the window.
- I was trying to think in terms of,
okay, when, what was the
original Nintendo out,
and okay, all right.
Okay, all right, that's fair.
- It actually was basically just a Mac,
with obviously a game controller.
So the idea was, it was sort
of part PC, part console,
and this actually was licensed out.
So, a lot of these actually
were built by Bandai.
So essentially it was sort
of like a joint collaboration
back when Apple were in the wilderness,
and they were trying anything
and everything they could
to recapture their former glory.
And, surprising exactly, no one,
this didn't sell at all,
and very few people ever bought one.
So, a not successful.
Let's move on, to question number five.
- Oh, this looks like one of the first,
the first sort of laptops,
which they were calling them
PowerBooks back in the day.
It is so small, that's crazy.
It is a PowerBook.
I mean, cause I feel like
that's what they called them
up until,
my God, like until like,
I guess they did switch it
to High Book, at some point.
Oh God, this sucks.
Okay, PowerBook G3, 1999.
I'm not sure.
- iJustine, you have an
impeccable level of knowledge
and specifically very impressive memory
to place yourself in these positions.
And you know what?
I'm gonna give you full
points for this one.
So, this actually came out in 2000,
and it is the PowerBook Pismo G3,
the very last of the G3 PowerBooks.
Congratulations.
- God, I just though
you're just patronizing me.
- No, no, no, that was done.
So, this was named after
Pismo Beach, California.
And it was of course
the last of the G3 line,
but it was the very first PowerBook
to have the AirPort card built in,
as well as those ugly, clear keys,
I think called them like
glass keys or something,
even though they were definitely plastic.
You are now above the threshold.
So you were at six of 10.
So, you're starting to claw
your way back up there.
So, why don't we immediately
remove all hope of winning
with question number six.
- Oh, wait, okay.
This is, this is the Newton.
Well, I'm gonna say this is the Newton,
because I feel like they
did have some other sort of
palm type thing, but I
don't know, I don't know.
Okay, so, I'm gonna say the Newton,
was definitely something in the nineties.
This is a super nineties.
I'm gonna have like 95.
- Okay, so the 1995 Apple Newton?
- Ish give or take a year.
- Okay you literally get,
give or take one year.
Okay, so I actually cannot
accept the Apple Newton
because there were multiple Newton models.
Again, like with question five,
there are a couple of
addendums to the Newton name.
If you can get either of them, correct,
I will give you points.
- I'm gonna say, the Newton Pro Max,
(laughs)
at 96.
- For question number six,
I'm sad to say you have zero points.
This is in fact from 1993,
and it was the Newton pad, MessagePad.
No, sorry.
Newton MessagePad 2000,
what a terrible name?
- 93?
- So essentially, the Newton
was a product, a sort of name,
and the MessagePad 2000
was the actual model.
So, ran on Newton OS,
obviously had actually
really advanced handwriting
recognition for its time.
And in fact, the Newton
was actually popular,
actually a decade Newton stores,
there are a few of them
back in the early nineties.
So, this was actually a
major success for Apple
for just a little while, in
the pre Steve jobs posts,
like Apple being weird era.
- Men!
- You were correct about the Newton part,
but unfortunately there were
quite a few Newton models
to choose from.
The good news is, if I'm
doing my math correctly,
you were still at 50%.
So you were right now, at six of 12.
So you're still in the game.
And, we're gonna move on to
question number seven now.
- Oh my God, it's a freaking projector.
Well, maybe it's a camera.
It's a camera, it looks like your camera.
That looks like a camera.
I was like this, okay, well,
it's like full screen on my
thing, so it looks massive.
I'm gonna say the Macintosh PowerShot,
portrait mode 1990.
Okay, final answer.
Macintosh QuickShot, 95.
Freaking, I don't know.
- Well, I know, that you
are actually 50% correct.
This is from 1994.
This was the Apple QuickTake 100.
One of the very first
consumer digital cameras.
- Oh my God.
(laughs)
Quick take.
- QuickTake, I believe is
what the feature is called.
If you're trying to take a
photo while recording video,
if I remember correctly,
but they definitely still
do use the QuickTake name
in the iPhone today.
Seven questions in and you
actually still exactly at 50%.
- Well that's, you know,
that's pretty subpar average.
I that's what I strive for.
- No, all you need is 50%.
There's no extra.
You don't get any bonus, if
you get a hundred percent.
All you do is hit that 50%.
Let's move on to question number eight.
- Oh,
okay.
I just don't, I'm not quite sure though.
Okay, so, I mean, I'm gonna say,
like a power PC just because
that was probably around.
Let's see, okay.
I would have been in.
- When I was in kindergarten,
I think that I used this actually,
no, you had Macs in the
house growing up, didn't you?
- We did, it's all we ever had.
Okay, so I'm gonna say, 92 Mac PowerPC.
I have absolutely no idea.
- Well, I have an idea.
And you were 50% correct?
This is the 1993 Macintosh TV.
- What?
I was like, what is this
freaking remote thing?
- You actually, yeah, you
were dead on with that.
So essentially,
it was actually just this
sort of weird hybrid.
It was basically just one of their
Performa 520 PCs,
but had a built in 14 inch Sony CRT TV.
The problem with that was that,
it pretty much just did input switching.
So you could either run it as a TV,
or you can run it for the PC.
The actual fact of it
being a quote unquote TV
had nothing to do with it.
- Wow, yeah, it definitely
doesn't seem like
it's a very user friendly interface.
- No, but fun fact, this was
the very first black Macintosh.
So, if you get 50% of
the next two questions,
For sure exactly even on points right now.
You will win the tweet,
and nothing at that point,
can take away from the
fact that you would be a,
This Is winner.
However, there is,
if you choose to accept,
a final bonus question,
where you can go double or nothing.
So, I will say nothing more beyond that,
but just kinda keep that
in the back of your head,
as we move on to question number nine.
- The eMac.
Yeah, 2003.
We, like my family, we had
this, like we had this.
- Okay, well that was not very dramatic.
You have successfully
just won the This Is game.
Congratulations.
(laughs)
- Yeah!
- So this is the fact that the 2002 eMac,
but that's absolutely
inside the margin of error.
So I'm curious, you
guys actually had these
because as far as I know,
they were for the education market.
- My mom is a teacher, so yes.
So that's why we've had Macs in our house,
pretty much from the beginning,
cause she always had the,
the education discount.
So yeah, oh my God, this is great.
- That was a very well played.
So, you now are without a
doubt, a This Is winner.
But, if you would like, you can take
our double or nothing
bonus question at the end.
If you can get it 100%,
right, no handicap,
you will trail your, This Is tweet,
for a full 30 second Ad spot, on This Is,
where we will say literally
whatever you want.
However, if you do not get that
final question 100% correct,
you walk away with nothing,
besides the honorary title
of being a, This Is winner.
You don't have to decide right now,
you still have one more question,
but that are, those are the stakes.
So, why don't we move
on to question number 10
and potentially, the final one.
- It looks like Wally.
Like it kinda has like
a real Wally look to it.
Which kind of makes
sense, cause it was Pixar.
Oh God, I think this
might actually be the IIc
because I have, I also have one of these.
I mean it's 84, 85, I'm not sure.
So I'm gonna say, cause
it's definitely not 83.
So if I say 85, it
could potentially be 86,
but I'm gonna say 85, just to be sure.
- iJustine,
I'm not even gonna mess with you.
You got that 100% correct.
It is in fact in the 1984 Apple Iic,
which means that you obviously
just completely nailed
that sort of bonus question.
So, essentially this was
Apple's first attempt,
at a quote unquote portable computer,
that could be quote unquote,
easily moved from place to place.
You definitely turned that
one around in a big way.
So, now that you are very
clearly a This Is winner
The real question is this.
Are you ready to risk it all,
and go double or nothing
for our bonus round
where you have zero handicap,
to get this final item, correct?
Or do you wanna walk away with your,
This Is tweet, your glorious
fake, This Is winter trophy,
and call it a day.
- I mean I'm gonna walk away.
You think I'm crazy?
Why would I risk it all,
when I've already just
proven my subpar knowledge,
of these, of the Apple genre.
- Fair enough, so you were absolutely,
This Is winner, congratulations.
- Thank you, could I see
what the question is anyway?
Just like, just to see?
- Absolutely can take the question anyway.
So just for fun,
why don't we take a look at
the final bonus question?
- Oh, thank God.
I didn't risk it all, cause
I'm actually not sure.
- Okay, do you wanna take
a guess at what this is?
- Oh my God, its like a Bose speaker.
That's cool, nice little
integration there.
I'm not, I have really, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure what this is.
- I'm glad you took your
victory, cause this is actually
the Twentieth Anniversary
Macintosh from 1997.
- Oh.
- So, this is a really rare Mac
They only made 12,000 of them
and they cost $7,500 each,
which is about $12,000 in today's money.
- I mean, clearly that
integration with Bose immediate.
This probably sounded great.
- Yeah, and you can see like the sides
were pretty much all speakers.
It was that sort of weird
sort of Brown color,
but they were so rare.
They literally only had
three service locations
in the entire world.
And fun fact cause Matt made me say this,
the only way, the only place
where you could get them
serviced in the U S was in
Rochester where he's from.
He made me say that, I don't care.
I don't care about that.
- Oh my gosh, wow.
Well I'm glad I didn't risk it all.
- You have shown not
only impeccable knowledge
of Apple products,
but also an excellent
sense of when to stop.
So, really the big question we have now,
do you have a tweet for us?
We will tweet whatever
it is that you want.
Matt is very helpful,
he handed me the phone.
You don't have to decide
right now, by the way,
you can decide to give us the tweet later.
But if you have something ready,
we'll tweet it literally
this second, if you want.
- Well its probably
gonna be something about
what an incredible editor I am,
and how you guys are hiring me,
and maybe a little dig
to Linus here, you know,
the Linus true and Terrence.
So let me, I need to craft
it, but it's definitely.
- Craft away, do you
wanna do it right now?
(mumbles) wanna send it to me.
- No, I'm gonna have to send it to you.
Cause I might have to edit a little video
to go along with this.
I don't know if that's like a part of it,
but you know, it's a tweet.
- Absolutely, tweet a video
and text, whatever it is,
whatever it is that you want.
(laughs)
iJustine, thank you
very much for being on.
Where can people find you on
the internet besides MySpace
- iJustine, everywhere.
And now I stream on Twitch
and we started a podcast.
A lot of stuff has happened
during the pandemic.
I've just really exploring all avenues.
(laughs)
- Very, very exciting.
Well, congratulations.
And if you enjoyed, make sure to subscribe
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I'm gonna put the cards done now.
