“While acknowledging that expectations for next week’s Macworld Expo are running relatively low, one Wall Street analyst believes there’s an outside chance Apple will surprise show-goers with a new consumer oriented device,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.

“Speaking to clients in a research note, Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu said his latest round of supply chain checks lead him to believe Apple’s announcements at the conference will center around new Macs and ‘potentially a sneak preview of Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard,’” Lane reports.

“However, the analyst also cited ‘sources’ as he echoed a pair of speculative reports from Apple bloggers this week, indicating the remote possibility that the Cupertino-based company may introduce a new ‘consumer device’ that may be ‘an updated version of AppleTV and/or Time Capsule with enhanced capabilities including the ability to access personal content from anywhere on the Internet,’” Lane reports.

More in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Brawndo Drinker" for the heads up.]