Who's he? Did you misread "college" as "colleague"? :P
In any case, I wouldn't know, it's just word that was being passed around.
Apparently a dev kit costs $2000, that's the equivalent of RM 8000 in Malaysia, quite a lot to pay for when we students usually only develop our projects on PC
Yup sure. I read it as "colleague", noted afterwards the actual spelling but then thought you may have misspelled it. Apologies, twas a poor assumption.
It's an interesting question - how many 'leaks' were actually there to date. A 100? A 1000?
99% would put the number of non-guess work really low - like we may be talking about a single actual leak (which presumably would be whoever first talked about Lockhart/Anaconda by name, as that's the one thing that is not a guess).
No idea. We've had a few leaks by insiders here, on reddit and eslewhere with info. we were already speculating on. Others that were just plain BS on Youtube and the like and like a bajillion pastebin posts that clearly fail the credibility test.
To your point on codename leaks, those aren't really anything I would consider leaks, because A) a codename is of no real consequence to us, and B) the final product more than often will not be revealed against said codenames--giving us no real way to verify whether a leak revealing codenames was real or not.
Wait so I can't criticize the negative spin game? I have to go elsewhere? Come on now...
If you're disingenuously mischaracterizing well reasoned posts as "negative spin" simply because you don't like what they're saying then I think you should probably take a step back from the keyboard... yes.
Either engage with the actual argument a person is making, by producing an equally well reasoned counterpoint, or don't reply. Otherwise it just derails the discussion.