October Back to the Mac Event Predictions
This is all speculation but I do this for fun
Hardware:
11.6" MacBook Air
-SSD only. Two models 128GB, 256GB
-Intel i3 ULV @ 1.33Ghz - 10 hour battery
-Intel i7 ULV @ 2.13Ghz - 7.5 hour battery
-Nvidia ION
-2GB of RAM (under-estimating)
- ~~ New 9"x3.5" glass trackpad ~~
-OS 10.7 multi-touch preview using new trackpad.
-Base price of new MacBook Air: $999
-Release Date: End of October
New Aluminum keyboard w/ integrated trackpad?
Software:
iLife 11'
-Multitouch Gesture based iMovie/Garageband. Tile draging, swipe to cut, etc
-iDVD no longer exist as standalone, integrated with iMovie.
-Mystery new App: iCanvas. Vector based, animatable, HTML5 ready content creator.
-64-bit?
-Release date: Early November
System Update 10.6.5 released
-includes FaceTime capable iChat
OS 10.7 Lion:
-Brand new interface, new animations
-Resolution independence (Vector based UI made in iCanvas)
-Removed TimeMachine Animation, now integrated with desktop
-Multitouch ready
-Multidimensional 3D layers
-Revolutionary way of managing and selecting files.
--Recent files at front, old files are blurred to the background
---New Ring-UI contextual menu (right-click)
Tap and hold a file to bring up the menu, swipe to the direction of the command
in the ring. (Similar to Maya, C4D contextual menus)
-3D and Vector based Icons
--New Iconbuilder to support 3D.
-Future proof to multitouch and 3D monitors.
-Release Date: October 2011