“It’s that time of year again, time to dust off the crystal ball and prognosticate about what Apple has in store for us at the big January love-in at Moscone. Macworld Expo opens in San Francisco in less than two weeks and predicting Expo announcements has become nothing short of a sport. So before you lay your money down for that shiny new computer, here are Jason the Greek’s Vegas odds on Steve Jobs announcements for The Big Dance,” Jason D. O’Grady writes for ZDNet.
O’Grady’s list:
10. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
9. Intel PowerBook
8. iWork ’06
7. iLife ’06
6. Bluetooth remote control
5. Price Increases for iTunes
4. AirPort Ultra (featuring video) + AirTV application (stream video to your TV – in High Definition)
3. 1GB iPod nano
2. Intel Mac mini
1. Widescreen Intel iBook (Don’t be surprised if this IBook is the first to ship without a FireWire port)
Full article here.
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The only plausible scenario for dropping Firewire from the iBook is when it becomes a 2lb. device with flash RAM and no hard drive. With Apple’s activity in the flash RAM market, you just know something like this is only two years away. The iBooks will be consumer-level devices akin to the Newton, and the Powerbooks will stick around for the pro market. The current iBook/Powerbook dichotomy just doesn’t make a lot of sense. If they drop Firewire from Powerbooks, though, there’ll be Hell to pay.
Any takers?
I’d be happy with an HD tuner with a hard drive.
Anyone else get a new Flat Panel tv for xmas,
and find out that High Definitin tv is free,
but you need a tuner to get the channels?
Seems to me that an apple HD tuner would be the
perfect application that would convince people
they need an Apple media center.