Jobs To Keynote MWSF '06

[rdowns]

New iPod armbands! Fingers crossed! Are we there yet?

Are you nuts? Apple would never upgrade their armbands before they update their socks.
🙄

 

[rdowns]

I'm betting Steve's going to show a bit of that SNL skit at the Keynote.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​

You feeling under the weather? You look a little pale.

 

[aafuss1]

A bluetooth, laser Mighty Mouse. (Even MS now has laser mice on the market
FCE 4.0
iWork '06 and iLife '06
Surely, Apple could support WMA in future products-as now one of its rivals, Sony has now started adding WMA support to iPods. How much marketshare does WMA have now compared to mid-2004?
Intel iBook or Powerbook
Logic 8-at NAMM?

 

[cwoloszynski]

Names for new intel machines

I am going to speculate that Apple will name the new laptops:

iBook G6
Powerbook G6

The 'G5' was an Apple moniker, and I am sure that they don't want to emphasize the Intel part too much. Since all the old Intel machines were x86, perhaps they will play on the 6 in x86 and call the new machines G6.

Obviously, the dual core machine may be powerbook Dual G5.

Let's see if I get this one right!

Just my opinion.

 

[sushi]

Excellent! and predictable!

Is Leopard going to be uncaged in fall 2007? I think Steve will wait until WWDC 06 to do a complete preview of Leopard.

Hey Lacero, looks like your slipping in your instant replies -- number 3! 😉

I doubt we will see Leopard at MWSF this year.

I do think we will see something intel running Tiger.

Sushi

 

[sushi]

Don't think I won't catch ya.

If you run, you only die tired. 😎

Good one!

Nice to see ya back.

Needless to say, this MWSF will be anticipated greatly.

Sushi

 

[~Shard~]

I am going to speculate that Apple will name the new laptops:

iBook G6
Powerbook G6

The 'G5' was an Apple moniker, and I am sure that they don't want to emphasize the Intel part too much. Since all the old Intel machines were x86, perhaps they will play on the 6 in x86 and call the new machines G6.

I think Apple will leave the marketing title of "G5" for the IBM chips, and will indeed rename the Intel chips something else, since they are a completely different architecture. However, I disagree that they don't want to emphasize the Intel part too much - this is the future of Apple, and Jobs has already gone to great lengths to emphasize the transition, so I don't see him holding anything back now, at the dawning of the pivotal release of these machines. 😎

Just my opinion.

Of course it is - who else's opinion would it be?!? 😛 😎

Good one!

Nice to see ya back.

Thanks sushi - always good to be back. 🙂

 

[EricNau]

Intel PowerBooks, with flash-boot capability.

Hubba!

Will never happen, it just doesn't make any sense, except maybe saving 50 seconds oh goodie!

edit: atleast anytime soon

 

[~Shard~]

Will never happen, it just doesn't make any sense, except maybe saving 50 seconds oh goodie!

I don't know about you, but I would take saving 50 seconds - that's a long time in the computer world! I could see the potential for something like this... 😎

 

[iPhil]

Hey Lacero, looks like your slipping in your instant replies -- number 3! 😉

I doubt we will see Leopard at MWSF this year.

I do think we will see something intel running Tiger.

Sushi

If i remember correctly that 'Jobs' said that leopard will be out by end of 2006 or early 2007 right before "Vista" or @ the same time launch as "Vista" 🙄 🙄

So no MWSF look @ 'Leopard' but there's a good chance of a Preview of 'Leopard' @ WWDC '06..😉

the sstatements were from my memory from watching the 'Stevenote' @ WWDC '05 .. I watched it in QT..😱

 

[EricNau]

I don't know about you, but I would take saving 50 seconds - that's a long time in the computer world! I could see the potential for something like this... 😎

Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to startup your computer in 10 seconds, but I don't think the technology is "good" enough yet (atleast not for a personal computer).
Not to mention - Flash is not stable enough - I know people who go through Flash drives in a matter of months, and when they fail, you have no warning at all. I know people are going to argue with me saying; "HDD can fail at anytime also," and yes, this is true, but flash is even less reliable.
I just don't think it can be done yet (atleast not well). - I'm not sure I would buy a laptop that used flash to boot.

Hey: You're back! You've been gone a while.

 

[~Shard~]

Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to startup your computer in 10 seconds, but I don't think the technology is "good" enough yet (atleast not for a personal computer).
Not to mention - Flash is not stable enough - I know people who go through Flash drives in a matter of months, and when they fail, you have no warning at all. I know people are going to argue with me saying; "HDD can fail at anytime also," and yes, this is true, but flash is even less reliable.
I just don't think it can be done yet (atleast not well). - I'm not sure I would buy a laptop that used flash to boot.

I hear what you're saying. 🙂 I'm actually looking forward to the future and flash-based HDs, but, as you say, that will be a ways away yet before the capacities, costs, etc. are where they need to be.

Hey: You're back! You've been gone a while.

Yeah, it was a couple weeks - I was off honeymooning in Hawaii. 😎

 

[kirk26]

A better comparison to Sony wares would be the PCG-X505 IMHO that form factor, with a better keyboard layout, combined with an ULV Pentium M and OS X would be a KILLER iBook.

Why does everyone like that huge gaping space on the Sony Vaio? That is what makes me not buy Vaios.

 

[EricNau]

Why does everyone like that huge gaping space on the Sony Vaio? That is what makes me not buy Vaios.

Huh?😕

you've lost me

 

[EricNau]

Yeah, it was a couple weeks - I was off honeymooning in Hawaii. 😎

Then I forgive you. 😉

BTW: My original statement about Flash Boot Drives; "That will never happen" - should be changed to " That will never happen anytime soon."

 

[hyperpasta]

Keyboard

Huh?😕

you've lost me

He's talking about the keyboard. SONY puts the keyboard against the front edge of laptop, with empty space by the display. Everyone else does the opposite, with the keyboard by the display and empty space at the fonr for resting hands/hlding the trackpad. The SONY way is totally impractical.

 

[maya]

Oh my, I do not know what Steve Jobs will release at MWSF 2006. Why am I not surprised? Maybe he will release nothing and just stand on stage for 1.5 hours making a fool of himself.

Every year its the same thing, people ponder and speculate what will happen and be released at an Apple Expo XX. That same repetitious crap.

iPod
Mac

some reviews of some product(s) and statistics.

What a surprise, I cannot contain myself. 🙄

 

[~Shard~]

Every year its the same thing, people ponder and speculate what will happen and be released at an Apple Expo XX. That same repetitious crap.

Yep - that's why most of us are here - it is MacRumors after all! 😉 😎

 

[dontmatter]

Some truly excellent products to be released:

- Intel based laptops hopefully.
- Of course, iLife 06 and iWorks.
- New Shuffle
- Demo of Leopard - its time, one year to go. Tiger has been out long enough and Apple should have something to show. There haven't been many rumours about which will be new - new Finder and resolution independent display - but that doesn't warrant a new OS version alone.
- at least one new consumer software and hardware to be unveiled.
- RDF reaches new heights.


Too soon -
- Apple branded phone
- digital camera
- Intel based desktops

Yup, everybody's got their own wish list. But I want to point out for all who mention it-ipod shuffle can't be updated without running into the nano. So if we get a shuffle update, which we probably will, given how old it is, how little it sells, and how much the price of competing products has dropped (and apple doesn't like to drop prices, they'd rather make the product better), we'll get a nano at 4 and 6 gigs. Which would be awesome.

 

[maya]

Yep - that's why most of us are here - it is MacRumors after all! 😉 😎

A sad day, we have become so shallow. 🙁

There is no surprise anymore. I want to hear just once that MWSF XX is cancelled and we are not sure when there will be another Expo or event. Something to mix it up and get it interesting again. 🙄

 

[EricNau]

Yup, everybody's got their own wish list. But I want to point out for all who mention it-ipod shuffle can't be updated without running into the nano. So if we get a shuffle update, which we probably will, given how old it is, how little it sells, and how much the price of competing products has dropped (and apple doesn't like to drop prices, they'd rather make the product better), we'll get a nano at 4 and 6 gigs. Which would be awesome.

I don't know if we'll see a Shuffle update, but I agree, if they did, they would also update the nano (to 4 & 6 GB) they did this the the Mini, why shouldn't they do it to the nano (as it is the replacement for the mini).

 

[EricNau]

A sad day, we have become so shallow. 🙁

There is no surprise anymore. I want to hear just once that MWSF XX is cancelled and we are not sure when there will be another Expo or event. Something to mix it up and get it interesting again. 🙄

Cancel MWSF! 😱 Don't ever mutter those words around here again! 😱

 

[Stella]

Yup, everybody's got their own wish list. But I want to point out for all who mention it-ipod shuffle can't be updated without running into the nano. So if we get a shuffle update, which we probably will, given how old it is, how little it sells, and how much the price of competing products has dropped (and apple doesn't like to drop prices, they'd rather make the product better), we'll get a nano at 4 and 6 gigs. Which would be awesome.

Too right about the Shuffle and Nano.

How much do you improve the Shuffle until it starts impacting on Nano sales?
It won't take too much for the Shuffle to be a lot cheaper than the Nano yet have the same capacity. Of course, minus the screen.

 

[~Shard~]

A sad day, we have become so shallow. 🙁

There is no surprise anymore. I want to hear just once that MWSF XX is cancelled and we are not sure when there will be another Expo or event. Something to mix it up and get it interesting again. 🙄

No surprises anymore? 😕 So I assume you saw the iPod nano coming a mile away, as well as the seriously-updated iMac shortly thereafter? 🙄 😛 😀

Speculating is fun, it gets the creative juices flowing, and gives members the chance to converse about possibilities and alternatives they may never have thought of - it's the benefit of being in a think-tank structure! And then when Apple surprises us with something we weren't really expecting, that makes it even better! 😉 🙂

 

[EricNau]

How much do you improve the Shuffle until it starts impacting on Nano sales?

Considering memory/storage usually goes in increments of doubles (...32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1GB, 2GB...)
The only way they could update the Shuffle would be at the very least to up them to 1 GB & 2 GB. The Nanos start at 2 GB. They would just have to update the nanos also.