Macworld San Francisco 2006 Rumor Roundup

[BlizzardBomb]

I seriously hope they replace anything with a G4. I also hope there's LCD price drops or maybe even introduce a 17" for Mac Mini users. Plasma TVs would just be mind-blowing. 50% smaller shuffles would make sure they don't get pushed out of the limelight in all this frenzy

 

[amateurmacfreak]

Here's what I think will happen:

Jan. 10 2006:

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Apple released Intel based Mac Mini at its annual MWSF event.

Jan. 11 2006:

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At NYSE, AAPL traded at $80 a share, due expectation in increase in sale.

Jan. 15, 2006:

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A file named "Mac OSX Tiger for PC (cracked) (work!).iso" appeared in eMule community.

Jan. 16, 2006:

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At NYSE, AAPL traded at $25 a share.

Hope this won't happen..

What the heck? Joking? One of the most odd scenarios I've ever heard.

 

[amateurmacfreak]

The larger iMac/iHome machines could be very interesting to say the least, however, I doubt it due to the price points mentioned (not that they are only determining factor) I have been looking at TVs lately, and purchasing anything with a 42" screen alone is going to cost around 2000-2500, nevermind with a $1500 iMac built into it.

I just want a new Powerbook, running XP when I need to!

Agreed. Powerbook that could run XP would be awesome. Not that I love XP. It's for the "software diversity."

 

[mandoman]

I don't care what comes out if anything, I would just like to hear
a more definitive roadmap for the Intel transition, especially
in terms of pro software development.

I would especially like to hear an official end-of-life announcement
on the g4 with significant price reductions announced across the g4 line
so I can pick up the last of the g4 powerbooks on the cheap.

Of course tight lipped Apple will keep us in the f'n dark as long as possible...

 

[ZorPrime]

I THINK Jobs has gone on record stating that X always was and always will refer to the number. Its just Apple's wacky fanbase that call it the letter X. (Who wouldn't. Its so much slicker then 10.) So at some point it will, with great fanfare no doubt, roll over to OS 11.0: Neural Implant Edition

If I'm not mistaken I recall the "OS 10" trademark is owned by Sun not Apple. As a result, Apple had to use OS X and trademarked "OS X" (officially pronounced ecks and not 10)... I'll have to dig deeper though...

 

[berkleeboy210]

This is why I Have every computer I own up on eBay right now for a 7 day auction. If nothing of interest comes tuesday I'll remove it, but I have a feeling that we'll be seeing something BIG.

And the More money to spend on them, the Better!

Holy Crap! How often do you see a post from 2 people in Boston at the same time???

 

[amateurmacfreak]

"By" June actually means before June. "In" June means any time in June. June 30 for example.

But "By" is just as ambiguous. For 30 days Jobs could still say "it's still June!", just as he could with "in."

But for me, "By" means before, or at least the same as in.

If he says "by June," I expect Mactels to be shipping by the first day in June when I open my eyes. That's what "by" means to me. Before, or right at the beginning of.

 

[Peace]

As has been pointed out to me I will repeat something for the N'th time..

Jobs NEVER said "by June"

What he said at WWDC last June was "by this time next year there will be Intel macs out"

 

[Some_Big_Spoon]

Nope, you'll never hear anything. Remember, it's Aple.. You're not important, only their image is important.

I don't care what comes out if anything, I would just like to hear
a more definitive roadmap for the Intel transition, especially
in terms of pro software development.

I would especially like to hear an official end-of-life announcement
on the g4 with significant price reductions announced across the g4 line
so I can pick up the last of the g4 powerbooks on the cheap.

Of course tight lipped Apple will keep us in the f'n dark as long as possible...

 

[sehix]

this was part of Intel CES Keynote. They showed a range of Laptops featuring the Core Duo chip...... looks like a thin iBook to be..... opinions.?

Not with the two trackpad buttons at the bottom.

 

[bankshot]

I can honestly say I don't care one bit about possible new products this year. All I want is a gapless iPod, and we all know that isn't happening.

However, the article at the very end of this news item was very interesting. Former Apple product manager talks about the whole process leading up to a Stevenote, weeks of preparation among many different teams across the company, all to make it look so seamless and simple. Excellent read.

I thought this article should have gotten its own story on the front page. As it is, I'll bet 99% of people seeing the rumor roundup story didn't notice it way at the bottom. Such a shame! Go read it if you haven't already.

(my one wish for this year would be 5 minutes with Steve to show him the gap problem, let it get under his skin until he's driven to focus that perfectionist energy on making the product team fix it... just 5 minutes! )

 

[sehix]

It wasn't setup right then. *shrugs*

And it still beat the Dell! Yay!!

{*ducks*}

 

[VanNess]

Since GarageBand is getting fully integrated Podcast recording support (expecting the smae from iMovie of course), don't you guys think iWeb will be more of a Podcast-Uploading utility?

Well, it may include that, but I think it's going to be more of a "super homepage" web page creation tool, going further beyond .Mac's homepage feature.

I don't have .Mac, but .Mac's homepage feature seems to be geared mostly towards publishing your photo and movie collections on the net for others to see. I suspect iWeb will be more of a standalone website creation tool, not necessarily married to .Mac and publishable anywhere, which will likely aggregate all of your various iLife media files so you can easily include them in various forms as content on your website. Making it part of the iLife suite makes sense in that regard. Most likely it will be largely template based, similar to Pages document creation.

So no longer will your goofy pics, iPorn movies, and nails-on-the-blackboard Garageband songs be confined to just you and your friends and members of your immediate family; now it can be creatively presented as imbeded media in an easy to build, professionally rendered, rich multimedia website for everyone to "experience."

Surely, it's still far too early for a Leopard demo? WWDC is the far more likely event for its premiere.

I give about even odds for at least an overview of some of the features being planned for 10.5. On the heels of Gates Vista (aka Mac OS X rip-off) presentation at CES, I think Jobs will find it too irresistible to remind the world at large that when Microsoft releases Vista (assuming they honor the current slated release date), and despite the somewhat obvious attempts at copying current OS X features, they will still be far far behind the technologies planned for OS X 10.5 when it's released roughly at the same time Vista is.

My guess is that, in terms of Richter scale changes in store for the Mac this year, Leopard will emerge as the most significant, not the intel switch.

 

[sehix]

If I'm not mistaken I recall the "OS 10" trademark is owned by Sun not Apple.

Odd. They don't seem to be using it for anything. Certainly not for Solaris 10, which is where you'd expect to see it if they were going to use it for anything.

As a result, Apple had to use OS X and trademarked "OS X" (officially pronounced ecks and not 10)... I'll have to dig deeper though...

Somebody needs to tell Mr. Jobs, then, since he says "OS ten" consistently.

We'll ignore "jagwire" and "ohtomatic" for now...

 

[sehix]

As has been pointed out to me I will repeat something for the N'th time..

Jobs NEVER said "by June"

What he said at WWDC last June was "by this time next year there will be Intel macs out"

And sure enough, there were intel-based machines for development work within a few days after WWDM '05.

 

[shawnce]

(my one wish for this year would be 5 minutes with Steve to show him the gap problem, let it get under his skin until he's driven to focus that perfectionist energy on making the product team fix it... just 5 minutes! )

At WWDC you can get a chance to bump into him in the halls and talk. It is fun

 

[SiliconAddict]

"By" June actually means before June. "In" June means any time in June. June 30 for example.

But "By" is just as ambiguous. For 30 days Jobs could still say "it's still June!", just as he could with "in."

But for me, "By" means before, or at least the same as in.

Please reference this for a direct Steve Jobs quote that you guys are getting completely wrong.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=1978989&reference#post1978989

I'm sick of posting the same quote over and over and over again. I really hope they come out with PowerBooks next week. Then I can get OS X Tiger and use Automator to reply to these comments.

 

[shawnce]

And sure enough, there were intel-based machines for development work within a few days after WWDM '05.

Well the developer transition system was talked about in a different context by Steve. His statement about "when we're here next year" was not related to the developer transition system.

 

[yoak]

iWeb is interesting to me at the moment, as it´s probably the only thing I can afford out of everything that (supposedly) coming out.
Homepage as it is is useless to me.
Hopefully we´ll see something like rapidweaver, but better.

That said, I´m still dying to see what they come up with next week

 

[WindowsSUCKSX5]

no more refurbs

I dont know if this has any affect on what might come at mac world, but there were no available refurbished ibooks at the online apple store. when i checked yesterday there were some available.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...rcT/0.0.19.1.0.8.63.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.1.1.0?97,63

 

[ZorPrime]

Odd. They don't seem to be using it for anything. Certainly not for Solaris 10, which is where you'd expect to see it if they were going to use it for anything.



Somebody needs to tell Mr. Jobs, then, since he says "OS ten" consistently.

We'll ignore "jagwire" and "ohtomatic" for now...

Really good point... I've trawled(sp?) Sun's site and for the life of me I wasn't able to find anything... I remember a friend of mine mentioning Apple was having legal issues with wanting to name the OS X as OS 10. They had similar problems naming classic aka OS 9. Microware Systems sued Apple because they had been using the trademark "OS 9" 20 years before Apple but Microware lost. I think, am not certain, Apple had a similar problem with "OS 10" but lost and that's the reason why they've refered to the OS as "X", Tiger, etc. suffixed with 10.2/10.4 etc... I think I'll check out the US trademark administration's official site but given the lack info I've been able to dig up... it's highly likely I'm wrong.

Edit/Update: I give up...

 

[VanNess]

I really hope they come out with PowerBooks next week. Then I can get OS X Tiger and use Automator to reply to these comments.

I would be surprised if Apple releases Powerbooks next week

The majority of stuff for the Mac that Apple shows at Macworld will likely be consumer-based products, such as iLife 06, and it, along with iWork updates and so forth, will almost certainly be released as a dual binary build. Updating at least some of the consumer Mac line (Mini and iBooks, both long overdue) would make sense since they would now have Intel-native software (and some of the crown jewels of consumer software on the Mac platform) to chew on.

I would guess that Powerbooks, et al., will be delayed at least until critical 3rd party software developers such as Adobe and Microsoft have their dual binary versions ready to go, if not already waiting on the shelves.

 

[steve_hill4]

Please reference this for a direct Steve Jobs quote that you guys are getting completely wrong.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=1978989&reference#post1978989

I'm sick of posting the same quote over and over and over again. I really hope they come out with PowerBooks next week. Then I can get OS X Tiger and use Automator to reply to these comments.

Amen brother.

This misquote annoys the hell out of me. I'm desperate to see the new PowerBook announced next week, (Tuesday I believe ), but so many keep telling us that Apple said they won't have MacIntels in the market until June. Apple knows that this line is most desperate for the transition, and as soon as possible, not June. They also know fools like myself have cards burning holes in their pockets to buy the Rev. A machines. Okay, so we had a revision recently, but we haven't had a proper revision in effect for a year or so now, (as this was only really a band aid over the PowerBook wound).

I of course look forward to explaining to those customers who aren't Mac literate the differences between the old PPC PBs and the MacIntels. Obviously there will be a price reduction, but I know lots will be indecisive once they get it into their heads that it is old technology. I can hope that there will be a few out there looking to snap up the last PPC models reduced, as they don't trust Intel. However since I have now been told I am a key player at work, (and it appears yet another pay rise is on the cards to keep me sweet for the time being, even though they know I am starting to look around to leave), and I appear to be the main Mac Expert these days, it's a challenge I look forward to.

 

[windowuser82]

I'm sick of posting the same quote over and over and over again. I really hope they come out with PowerBooks next week. Then I can get OS X Tiger and use Automator to reply to these comments.

Maybe you'll luck up and Apple will release iPersonality.

 

[WindowsSUCKSX5]

ibooks are most likely mac computer to be updated

I would be surprised if Apple releases Powerbooks next week

The majority of stuff for the Mac that Apple shows at Macworld will likely be consumer-based products, such as iLife 06, and it, along with iWork updates and so forth, will almost certainly be released as a dual binary build. Updating at least some of the consumer Mac line (Mini and iBooks, both long overdue) would make sense since they would now have Intel-native software (and some of the crown jewels of consumer software on the Mac platform) to chew on.

I would guess that Powerbooks, et al., will be delayed at least until critical 3rd party software developers such as Adobe and Microsoft have their dual binary versions ready to go, if not already waiting on the shelves.

I like you feel that consumer level products will likely get the intel processors first.I also believe the ibook will likely lower in price by 200$ to better compete against the pc market. later powerbooks will come when the more professional programs are OS X x86 compatible.