Macworld 2007 keynote is in about 9 hours. Being the Mac geek that I am, I’ve got to list my predictions:
- Demos of new Leopard look (Finder + overall graphical theme)
- iWork ‘07 with spreadsheet
- iLife ‘07 more of the same - incremental improvements but nothing major
- Airport Extreme X2/X4 (already leaked so easy guess)
- MacPro Dual 4-way machines (total of 8 CPUs). I want one but have no idea what I’d use all that power for (maybe run Vista on BootCamp?)
- Details on the iTV thing - probably with iPod branding
- iTunes HD (gotta put something on the iTV device)
- Cinema Displays with built-in iSight and some insanely large size like 42″
- One more thing…iPhone mini/nano/candybar/whatever. It’s coming. No possible way it can live up to the hype.
The real story this year with Apple will be Leopard and improving market share. Vista is a resource pig so if you gotta buy a new machine, might as well make it a Mac. And Vista’s DRM lock downs should tick more people off enough to switch as well. iTV should open a new era for iTunes and start the real war for digital downloads. The days of cable and satellite TV have to be numbered. If I could get iTunes subscriptions for shows in HD, I’d probably think about dumping my DirecTV system.
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