MacWorld 2008!
12.14.07 - 02:17pm
Every year Apple blogs are flooded with speculation as to what will be released at the Apple MacWorld exposition in January. Apple, who keeps absolutely mum on anything up and coming, creates so much rampant speculation that they generate approximately 700 million in free advertising each year. MacWorld is one of the most talked about events as this is where Apple usually showcases any new products.
Expected for MacWorld this year is a new skinny, skinny, laptop. Fifty percent thinner than the current model the laptop is expected to have a 12-13 inch screen, optional flash memory, LED backlighting and no optical drive. The price is expected to run around $1500, more expensive than average, but you will get all the great normal Mac software such as iMovie already included. Programs that would cost you hundreds of dollars a piece to buy and put on a regular computer. Whether or not it will support a touch sensitive screen similar to the Touch is up in the air and most likely just a “please we want that.”
The iPhone is expected to get a 3G upgrade. This has been known to be coming for sometime and is super important for the 2008 Australia release where they are used to the speed of 3G. When it will be released is the question and for how much? Also 3G speed takes a lot more battery life than 2G so there may be some changes there as well in the new iPhone 3G. The iPhone’s also expected to get more 3rd party application and some games.
Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac is set according to the Sydney Morning Herald. They wrote, “Sneak previews of the new software that we have seen, but about which we are not yet allowed to say very much, indicate that the new Office suite of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage brings major advances in the performance of each application.”
For iTunes everyone is hoping for a Beatles rendezvous. Jobs has been trying to get the Beatles albums on iTunes for years. This year could be it.
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