Filed under: Macworld, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs, Apple
Forbes guesses wildly at Macworld
Forbes is playing it safe with the Macworld predictions this year. Everything you've ever heard rumored about Apple in the last five years? Yeah, it's all here in their Macworld speculation guide. From the sub-notebook, to the iTablet, all the way to the Beatles, an Apple car, and even the old Apple gaming device, they cover pretty much all the bases.In a way, it's good, because at least it means that Forbes has exactly no idea what's coming at the big event. Don't get me wrong-- I'm sure we'll still see it leaked a few days ahead of time by the Washington Post or the New York Times. But at least now, before the holidays, they're as clueless as everybody else.
So what is coming to Macworld? At this point, I would be surprised not to see the sub-notebook, and as we said in last week's Talkcast, it would be nice to see an update to the mini and/or the Apple TV. But let's face it: we won't know what Steve is going to talk about until he actually stands on stage and talks about it.
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Alex said 2:03PM on 12-13-2007
My guess is a sub-tablet - halfway between an iPhone and a Macbook.
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Cabana said 2:49PM on 12-13-2007
Does Apple have a 30-day return policy? Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a dumb idea to have such a hyped event so soon after the holiday shopping season. I can see a lot of peeved new iPhone owners. Maybe there will be surprise announcements in the next week or two?
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Josh* said 3:14PM on 12-13-2007
Apple products purchased over the holiday have until January 8 to return them, iirc. Plenty of time to realise that a new product coming out doesn't make yours instantly unusable.
Josh* said 3:20PM on 12-13-2007
I like that mockup!
I'm hoping for a 13" MacBook Pro. Not a 6 inch MacBook, Not a 9 inch iPhone, and MacBook Pro with an acceptable sized screen and no unnecessary bollocks like touch screens.
All I want to see is a thinner, lighter alu MacBook with a matte LED backlit screen and decent GPU. Think Dell's m1330 and LG's P300, both of which pulled off the size with more than adequate specs.
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Steven said 3:32PM on 12-13-2007
Mac Pro video card needs some serious love :(
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Cabana said 3:56PM on 12-13-2007
The only thing that's keeping me from buying an iPhone right now is Macworld '08. I don't want to buy it now and then have something new come out next month, but if there will only be announcements for products coming out in Summer '08 then I've wasted an entire month waiting for nothing.
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Carlos said 5:11PM on 12-13-2007
buy the iPhone now and enjoy it - the only thing to wait for would be 3G and even if it is announced at MacWorld it wont ship until summer at the earliest.
Simon Arch said 5:49PM on 12-13-2007
My money is on more of the same, without any major new hardware announcements. I can't imagine them releasing a tablet, but then I was dead wrong about the iPhone, so what do I know?
Whatever they release one thing's for certain: I can't afford it.
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geochick said 7:27PM on 12-13-2007
My guess: Movie rentals via the iTunes Store and some sort of a sub-notebook. A thinner MB/MBPro/Tablet with some of that iPhone touchscreen goodness.
My wish: All that plus some more templates for the iLife suite esp. iWeb.
I don't think we'll see a new iPhone until the summer either but who knows what they have been planning to unleash on us.
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Twist said 10:39PM on 12-13-2007
I don't really expect anything too big from them this time. A tablet Mac would be nice (as long as it has a decent level of sensitivity unlike most tablet PCs or even the modBook, think greater than 2048 levels), but what I would really love to see is a new desktop that fills the void between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro. Give it specs similar to the iMac, but with at least a single PCIe slot and perhaps room for a second internal hard drive. If they want to cut costs they can ditch the keyboard and mouse just like with the Mac Mini. They can even stick an Intel GPU on the motherboard to help cut costs as long as it has a PCIe slot available for after-market upgrades. Price it somewhere in the $1200 range (the price the low end PowerMac's used to start at) and call it the Mac. This is basically what we wanted when they gave us the Mac Mini they just missed the target a bit.
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Joe Maller said 9:42AM on 12-14-2007
I don't think we'll see an iPhone hardware update, but I do expect a major point update to the iPhone OS. Leopard's To Dos and Notes have languished too long already, Notes is already there and those two blank spots on Springboard are itching for a To Do app. I'd be surprised if we see new iPhones before March, but we might get a preview of the iPhone SDK, WWDC is too long to wait.
MacBook Pros will likely see a hardware update, and it's very likely we'll see some sort of NAND-based, solid-state mini-MBP.
Mostly though, I just want Leopard to work better.
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Jason Anderson said 1:00AM on 12-15-2007
I want either a tablet (13" MacBook sized screen) or a ThinBook. But will settle for a thin Tablet. I want multitouch. Single touch wouldn't be enough for me. I want to use the touch screen either with my fingers (I don't care about fingerprints) or a stylus if I want to. I want it to be pressure sensitive. And have multiple points of touch at once, two at least. With an OS X update to accomodate for it. As well as an open SDK for programmers to incorporate multitouch into their normal apps. Like for instance being able to press a toolbar button while also drawing on the screen at the same time.
Please make it true, Apple.
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