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Red Apple iPod, new MacBook to debut next Tuesday?
Friday, May 12, 2006 - 12:28 PM EST

"Will next Tuesday, 16 May see the debut of the much-touted red iPod? Let's string together a series of coincidences and see if it will. We've no evidence - think of the exercise as a thought experiment. Apple was rumoured to announce its new Intel-based MacBook this week, on Tuesday. A variety of sources say the launch will now take place next Tuesday... Other sources have claimed that the announcement will be accompanied by new iPods, even though it's much less than a year since the 5G iPod and the Nano were launched. Rumour-mongers have also suggested the MacBooks may be available in different colours," Tony Smith reports for The Register.

"The conclusion that a red iPod is in the works was first drawn after U2 singer Bono suggested it in off-the-cuff remarks about his Product Red charity, a scheme that calls on famous brands to offer red versions of their products in order to publicise the African AIDS crisis. Next Tuesday, the day Apple is said to be announcing new, coloured MacBooks and iPods, Bono will be guest-editing a major UK newspaper the Independent, which is going red to mark the occasion," Smith reports.

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May 12, 06 - 12:43 pm Comment from: Charko

Take a look at Appleinsider.

There's going to be a special 'briefing' for analysts and media on Thursday.
That's probably when all the goodies are going to be announced.

May 12, 06 - 12:48 pm Comment from: PG

Thursday is the new Tuesday.

May 12, 06 - 12:49 pm Comment from: whatever

yah it makes sense, a red iPod definately means new macbooks, no doubt about it. I wonder what'll happen when they release special Republican iPods.

May 12, 06 - 12:49 pm Comment from: bobby Skinner

Can I get one with an NC State logo on it? .... that could tempt me to replace my still pretty new iPod!

We are the Red and White from State and we know we are the best ...

May 12, 06 - 12:50 pm Comment from: MadMac

What then is the new Thursday?

May 12, 06 - 12:51 pm Comment from: Jvpiter

Lets hope new things will come!!

May 12, 06 - 12:52 pm Comment from: winchester Biggins

Monday afternoon.

May 12, 06 - 12:52 pm Comment from: PG

What then is the new Thursday?

Tuesday?

May 12, 06 - 12:55 pm Comment from: Noraa Haras

I hear Bono is peace-loving liberal. He thinks AIDS should be cured instead of being used as Gods tool to destroy all the sinners.

What is wrong with humans that makes us watch dispassionately while other humans die? Why do so few work so hard to make peace?

May 12, 06 - 12:57 pm Comment from: Thorin

Whatever:

Don't start more political BS on this thread!

May 12, 06 - 12:58 pm Comment from: andy

woo more cool stuff, that i cant afford and dont really need hhmmm, let me know when the new powermac, photoshop and maya are out, thats when ill be able to go intel.

May 12, 06 - 12:59 pm Comment from: Hawaiian Starman

New iBooks coming!!!!!!!

This is beginning to sound like the "boy who cried wolf". snake

May 12, 06 - 01:01 pm Comment from: No koolaid here

i had simpler solution: i just applied some red paint to mine. lol

May 12, 06 - 01:03 pm Comment from: J-dawg

Next...

May 12, 06 - 01:04 pm Comment from: Just passing through

Let's not forget a pink one for breast cancer (can I say breast), a green one for the environment, yellow to support our troops, maybe a blue one for the Democrats. Or better yet, go buy a Zen, they already come in multiple colors, don't they? What's that you say? Nobody buys Zens. Exactly.

May 12, 06 - 01:05 pm Comment from: Charko

andy,

I think the new Powermac will be completely redesigned.
It doesn't have to be quite so big now and anyway a design change is due.

I'm really looking forward to the new Powermac, which, unfortunately, will probably be called the 'Mac pro'.

May 12, 06 - 01:05 pm Comment from: Da Vinci

What about a purple one for the catholics! A green one for the Irish! Or a combo there as most are catholics anyway.

And a orange one for the Dutch! and a pink one for the gays and girls, and a cam one for the troops and a ............

Bring them on, we will love them no matter what the colour.

Apple rocks.......

Leo

May 12, 06 - 01:11 pm Comment from: MacMania

MDN, will you never learn?

tongue rolleye

May 12, 06 - 01:12 pm Comment from: Tourian

Very quick note:
IT WAS OBVIOUS APPLE WASN'T GOING TO ANNOUNCE ANYTHING THIS WEEK.

There are other tech titans out there people *points at E3*

May 12, 06 - 01:24 pm Comment from: NeverFade

ugh - the red one ( from the artists comp ) looks really ugly to me. hope this doesn't ever see the light of day...

May 12, 06 - 01:27 pm Comment from: Mike Napolitano

It seems to me using a venu like a new store opening to usher in new prodocts is marketing genius. what a way to draw massive attention from the press and blogoshpher with every new store opening! Even if it's just little anouncments from time to time like a speed bump or even new software udate, it would place all eyes on the new store, get many more people to attend making a longer line, great for sales/press kit shots, all in all a win win as far as I can see. Whats your opinion MDN? =)

May 12, 06 - 01:29 pm Comment from: Noraa Haras

*Torments Thorin*

May 12, 06 - 01:32 pm Comment from: megamac

Go Pack!!!!

May 12, 06 - 01:43 pm Comment from: Mike Buonarroti

I predict...

- A new iBook (called MacBook) this year.
- A new iPod by next year.
- An earthquake in California.
- Michael Jackson will make the news again.
- The TV news will over-hype terrorism because it was a slow news day.
- A group of politicians will over-hype terrorism because they are completely incapable of any independent thought or original idea.
- A group of politicians will ignore the 1,000 deaths DAILY from smoking because the tobacco industry gives them more money than the terrorists do.
- IT department heads will continue to cling onto the MS Windows platform with their last breath like rats on a sinking ship because whatever intelligence it takes to troubleshoot Windows has nothing to do with recognizing Mac myths from facts.

It really doesn't take a fortune teller or an "industry analyst" to figure these things out.

May 12, 06 - 01:57 pm Comment from: Hey Noraa

kiss

Love,

Thorin

May 12, 06 - 02:07 pm Comment from: James Hopkins

Sweet its my birthday on Tuesday!

New iBook for me

May 12, 06 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Tom Cruise

You dont know the history of thursday..... I do.

May 12, 06 - 02:20 pm Comment from: Straight/Normal Male

A bleeding heart wrote:

"I hear Bono is peace-loving liberal. He thinks AIDS should be cured instead of being used as Gods tool to destroy all the sinners."

----------

Yeah, well he ain't God! :wink:

May 12, 06 - 02:30 pm Comment from: Thorin

OMG Tom Cruise cracks me up, ever since he put the Porsche 928 in the water that time. Good times. cheese

May 12, 06 - 02:31 pm Comment from: Reverse Thrust

A red iPod. It's about time commrade.

May 12, 06 - 02:39 pm Comment from: Ryan

"- IT department heads will continue to cling onto the MS Windows platform with their last breath like rats on a sinking ship..."

Um, I think you have the metaphor backwards. Rats LEAVE sinking ships.

Or so I've heard.

May 12, 06 - 02:55 pm Comment from: Nick

As long as everything Apple makes from now on includes a Core Duo, at least 512MB RAM, a 60GB HD and a superdrive, they will sell plenty of hardware.

Of course, that 512MB gets gobbled up by integrated graphics somewhat.

Hopefully there will be a $999 iBook replacement that isn't too gimpy.

May 12, 06 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Nick

Noraa Haras:

Peace doesn't pay in the short term, and the fat impotent powermongering dudes are mostly just interested in short-term profit.

Bush and company have demonstrated that they are happy to obliterate our civil liberties, send our troops to die needlessly occupying a country that is of no consequence to us, allow our environment to be polluted and destroyed, and render the US dollar worthless through massive debt building. It makes me wonder what the "conservatives" are conserving.

I wish we had leaders who loved their country, and who could see past the end of their noses.

May 12, 06 - 03:15 pm Comment from: OzzysCross101

The red would be totally pointless and unbelievably ugly. Even worse than the black one.

May 12, 06 - 03:47 pm Comment from: ishufflemyfeet

I like red Ketchup.

There, I said it.

May 12, 06 - 04:02 pm Comment from: typhoon

PG said, "Thursday is the new Tuesday."

OMG!!! That is soooo funny. Good show!

May 12, 06 - 04:34 pm Comment from: ron

Yeah, definately.

May 12, 06 - 04:57 pm Comment from: Laugh Clown laugh

Mike,
Rats desert a sinking ship not cling to it. Come on man

May 12, 06 - 05:11 pm Comment from: maczealot

Sorry, Thorin, as a passionate, gun totin', truck drivin', red meat eatin', Navy veteran...

No doubt the “Red” iPod will match the “Red” MacBook Pros from People’s Republic of China. I hear that the “Red” iPods will come pre-installed with those hip hits from the top socialist charts including,

“Sweet Socialist Dreams are Made of These”, “I’ve Been Thinking about You, (Karl Marx)”, “I’ll be There - to Lead the Revolution”, “Do you Think I’m Sexy – as a Communist Worker?”, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun at the May Day Parade”, “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming, Capitalist”, “Stairway to Heaven and Social Bliss”

May 12, 06 - 05:23 pm Comment from: macbones

Our iPods are already "Red" as in made in China. . .

May 12, 06 - 05:43 pm Comment from: maczealot

macbones:

Yes, of course, but the other iPods don't have the Politburo’s favorite finger-snappin' tunes pre-installed. comrade.

May 12, 06 - 06:15 pm Comment from: St. Bob

Ryan, Mike, etc.:

The movement of RATS has little to to with the state of a ship as purely regards sinking; it has everything to do with whether they could find a hole big enough to fit through. Forward movement stops only when they can no longer find, or make, passage. They'd simply like their tiny little lives to continue.

Yes, a good CAPTAIN may indeed, on occasion, go down with the ship. However RATS, having no such honorable code wired into their peabrains, follow a much simpler one: Live. And so, if they can, they get the freak out of Dodge, while the Captain takes his last shot of the good bourbon.

May 12, 06 - 06:17 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Personally, I hoping for a new MacBook whose color contains the presence of all the frequencies of visible light. A little less cool is a MacBook whose color contains the presence of none of the frequencies of visible light.

Peace.

MW: those - As in I would like one of those before too long.

May 12, 06 - 06:30 pm Comment from: Jooop

It makes me wonder what the "conservatives" are conserving.

That's why I don't agree with calling neo-cons like the Bush administration and the creeps at PNAC "conservatives", because they're not about conserving anything. We should call them what they are, "consumatives". They're about consuming everything they can...consuming our natural resources, our financial resources, and our human resources, all for short-term profit. Seems to me that's the opposite of what "conservative" used to mean.

May 12, 06 - 08:27 pm Comment from: Less is More

Conserving the rich and powerful at the expense of the general population.

May 12, 06 - 08:56 pm Comment from: Matt Lauer

Hey, screw you Tom, you big-toothed midget.

May 13, 06 - 12:48 am Comment from: Steves Job

It is correct that Bono is not God. Nor is he a peace loving liberal. He is simply a self promoting poser with an ego the size of Bridget Jones's bum and a face to match. Oh yeah, he's Irish too.

May 13, 06 - 11:32 am Comment from: Ampar

I'm waiting for the iPod - Pop Tarts hybrid model. Tasty tunage.

May 13, 06 - 04:36 pm Comment from: Tom Cruise

Matt, you dont know the history of midgets........or big teeth.... I do.

May 13, 06 - 05:38 pm Comment from: Vern

macbones,

My current iPod was made in Taiwan, which, I must inform you, is not part of the People's Republic of China.

May 13, 06 - 06:10 pm Comment from: Ampar

Nice job "raster"izing Tom.

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