“Apple’s last Macworld Conference and Expo opens Monday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, but the real action starts Tuesday at 9 a.m. PT (12 noon ET) with senior vice president Phil Schiller’s opening remarks — the first Macworld keynote not delivered by Steve Jobs since 1997,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
Our top 10 favorite Macworld rumors:
10. Snow Leopard release date
9. Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro
8. Revamped iWork
7. 32 GB iPhone
6. 64 GB iPod touch
5. New Mac mini
4. New iMac
3. New iPod shuffle
2. New Apple TV/Time Capsule
1. Steve Jobs
Below the line:
• iPhone nano
• iPod tablet
Full article here.
cmon Steve, put in a cameo appearance
I’m hoping Snow Leopard is high on the list.
Verizon gets the iPhone!!!!! I hate using my iPhone on AT&T;
Will the Mini lose Firewire???
matte screens!
removable batteries!
firewire 400!
green blinky hard disk lights!!
parallel ports!
the return of the floppy disk!
the 68000 CPU to make a comeback!
ohhhh MW is going to be awesome!!!!
Bill gates does one more thing at keynote!!
@taxi
Can the 68000 chip be clocked in excess of 1 ghz?
This is my dream:
Steve Jobs cartwheels onto the stage.
Rob Enderle is invited on stage.
Steve squres up, Enderle trie a jab, but Steve puts in a left hook.
Enderle goes down.
The ‘Steve is dying’ rumours are laid to rest for good…
Hormonal imbalance iCure.
I will be surprised & disappointed if upgraded MacPros with new displays are not introduced. And isn’t this the right time for an iLife announcement? Or is Apple happy with the current iLife for another year? I’d esp like to see some iMovie changes.
And the more I am involved with the “new” MobileMe, the less I like it. It was certainly a step down from .Mac. Make that two steps down.
10. Snow Leopard release date
Possibly, more likely at WWDC
9. Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro
Maybe a mention, but this will not likely be at a major release, just a press release.
8. Revamped iWork
Very likely
7. 32 GB iPhone
Could happen. Again, not a big enough change for a keynote
6. 64 GB iPod touch
See #5
5. New Mac mini
Very likely, assuming that it has the major changes that are rumored.
4. New iMac
Only if they are tossing in a quad-core option.
3. New iPod shuffle
Doubt it
2. New Apple TV/Time Capsule
Possibly
1. Steve Jobs
That would be fun
I think you may see a MacPro announcement. With those new Intel chips, that could mean big enough changes.
It would be disappointing not to see new iLife. We definitely need the ability to burn HD content. If Steve thinks FW is no longer needed because consumers are moving to tapeless HD camcorders, he should really be consistent and give us tools that allow us to deliver that HD content to our Blu-ray players. We don’t really need Blu-ray burners (or $35 blank discs) in order to do that; ordinary DVD+R (DL) discs will do; we just need tools to do this in the true Apple way. At present, it’s a colossal hassle, with the only cheap software for that being Toast 9 (of all tools, no less!).
Current crop of Apple’s hardware could properly handle AVCHD files if only the software they have would properly support it. It is very clear that today, 9 out of 10 camcorders out there are AVCHD and tapeless (i.e. no FW). And 5 out of 10 retail for below $500. Steve sait that the year 2007 was “the year of HD”. It’s now 2009 and it’s time for it to be really true, Steve.
I would have thought a MacPro with the new Intel i7 processor was a no-brainer, esp. with a Snow Leopard demo – 4 real processors, 8 virtual.
My wish list:
1. Apple TV 3.0
2. iPhone to Verizon
…my fingers are crossed…
iPhone to Verizon
Not gonna happen. Ever. iPhone is GSM. Verizon is CDMA.
@ Predrag.
Apple’s solution is to stream your HD imovie to your Apple TV.
Zero external media required.
eMax:
I seriously hope that’s not their official line. Right now, AppleTV is a 720p/i-only device, while practically all HD camcorders out there are 1080p/i. This may change tomorrow, but still. Clearly, mainstream consumers are buying Blu-ray in far greater number than they’re buying AppleTV. In Windows, you can buy several cheap (sub- $100) software tools that will acquire your AVCHD video, let you edit it, as well as author and export into Blu-ray compatible file format, with proper directory structure, ready for burning onto optical media. On the Mac side, the only fairly integrated solution for that is Adobe CS4 suite (Premier/AfterEffects/Encore). On the consumer side, there’s nothing, except very clunky and unintuitive process involving iMovie and Toast.
The realities of today imply that providing blu-ray authoring could make a lot of Mac users happy.