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Yes!  I believe Jobs will be announcing the long-overdue consumer tower, revised iMacs, OS X on PCs, the acquisition of N, and Leo ahead of schedule.

I think it would be marvelous if Leopard was going to be released early. That would probably help jumpstart a few back to school sales. I was really hoping that there would be a new iPod ( read not shuffle or nano) that had a touchscreen or something new. I have waited forever to get an iPod and finally have the money to get one, however I am going to wait till they are released. I don't know what to think about the idea of dropping the 17'' iMac and mac mini unless like everyone else....there is going to be some sort of an upgradable tower. There has to be some sort of entry level mac....maybe its time for the Cube 2.0! Really I just think that the mini needs to be redesigned to have a real graphics card in it. Something that would make me very happy is a new 12" MacBook Pro. I love my C2D one but I really miss my little 12" guy. It was just so portable. However I only want it if I can get the same performance out of it as the preent lappies ( no integrated!) I really have more to say what I would like and why they should make it but I don't want to force ya'll to read all my ramblings   -Chris aka "speedy"

I'm wondering if they're going to be updating iPods? My 4th generation from two years ago died last week. The video ones came out two weeks after I bought it, so I don't want to get a new one until after next week so the same thing wont happen again.

I'm also excited to see what the new iMacs look like. I really like the current design, so I'm interested to see where they go from there. Lots of color options would be pretty cool too.

I have low expectations.

ScifiterX wrote:

Hardly surprising. I also won't be surprised if despite your "low expectations", Apple fails to live up to them even if most everyone else end up quite impressed.

I hope I am wrong but all I expect is perhaps an appearance change, some CPU bumps and possibly the confirmation or refutation of the rumor the Mini is dead.

Reasonable expectations Pariah, but some architectural improvements may also possible. I expect that 802.11N will be officially standard across all updated models and bumps in the graphic processors, hard drives & RAM in preparation for Leopard (and the recent gaming focus). It's also possible that if the Mac Pro get updated we may actually see eSATA.

Also remember, we're also supposed to start seeing LED backlit monitors this year. If we see monitors (also possible) they're likely to have them on the smaller units and integrated iSight capability.

Admittedly we won't be seeing all that on Tuesday but it is very reasonable that that sort of technology will start filtering in then.

Aqua OS X wrote:

a newly revived interest in Mac OS games

Did you totally miss WWDC?

ScifiterX wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

a newly revived interest in Mac OS games

Did you totally miss WWDC?

Ohh yes, Cider.

Develop for Mac OS by developing for Windows and relying upon Wine.

Aqua OS X wrote:

FutureDreamz wrote:

So no confirmation about the Mini so far?
Anyone think that it will be redesigned?

If by "redesigned" you mean "dragged out into the street and shot," then yes.

It looks like Apple might let that Mac die off. That's what seems to be floating around the rumormill.

I guess so, as it doesn't fit with Apples model:
             |  Consumer |  Pro              |   ???       
Desktop  |  iMac          |   Mac Pro        |    Mac Mini
Notebook|  MacBook    |  MacBook Pro |   ???

Last edited by FutureDreamz (2007-08-01 2:20 am)

Admittedly Cider is an imperfect start, but it is finally a start and I seriously doubt Apple would be having the gaming companies up on stage during the actual keynote  if they did not actually plan to implement some hardware change to better support gaming within the next year or so. They would instead let the vendor announce it on their own like every other time.

As far as the GPU comment goes, I can only hope some of you hardcore gamers eventually learn the real difference between a bad card, a good card, and a gaming quality card.

cleekj wrote:

The gaming comments at WWDC are pointless really......Well unless we actually see an actual desktop with desktop innards that does not start at $2600 with a good GPU.......

$2200

$2450 with the X1900