MacWorld 2008 Predictions

The Mac Pro upgrades and price bump that happened yesterday leaves a big gap in Apples desktop product line. Earlier this year I talked about the Mac Mini and tv being inte­grated into one product, and recent rumors of a MacTouch have been going crazy all over the internet. So what will happen at MacWorld? We won’t know for sure till next Tuesday, but we all have our predic­tions and wishes for what will happen.

Here is my Prediction list: (not in any specific order)
iTunes upgraded to 7.6 or even 8.0.
 — With the rumors of movie rentals and DVDs containing digital files (tuaw), an iTunes upgrade should be expected. I would like for v8.0 to be released, there have been too many small updates to v7.0 and it would be nice to have v8.0

Introduction of a new smaller format desktop computer
 — With the upgrade to the Mac Pro yesterday, the stan­dard config­u­ra­tion price leaves a big gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro. A smaller form format desktop will fill this gab with a redesigned smaller Mac Pro like case.

Mac Mini & tv become one
 — With many rumors of the Mac Mini demise floating around and the tv getting more compe­ti­tion from LG and Netflix (tuaw), a combi­na­tion of these prod­ucts will make a great plat­form. You will have a fully func­tioning Mac OS that will be acces­sible from your living-room and will be able to use iTunes to down­load your movie rentals that will be avail­able Tuesday.

Notebooks to be upgraded.
 — Recent rumors are that either line of Apple’s note­books will be updated. There should be an upgrade to either the MacBook or the MacBook Pro lines of note­books.

iPhone news & SDK
 — The iPhone SDK will be mentioned and a release date will be given. Also the iPhone firmware might also be upgraded to 1.1.3.

Cinema Display’s to be upgraded.
 — It has be a while since Apple upgraded the Cinema Display’s and the last few upgrades have only been minor spec changes or price drops. It would be nice to have an iSight built into an Apple Cinema Display since they discon­tinued the external iSight over a year ago.

MacTouch to be intro­duced.
 — While the idea of having a large format iPod Touch running the full version of OS X 10.5 would be nice, this is more of a wish list item.

Tune in next Tuesday to your favorite Apple news site to find out what Apple has in store, and check back here to see a score card for how my predic­tions turn out.

Andrew

Jan 9, 2008

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