{"id":506,"date":"2007-08-07T00:25:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/the-new-imacs.html"},"modified":"2007-08-07T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:25:41","slug":"the-new-imacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/the-new-imacs.html","title":{"rendered":"the new iMacs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple is holding an “event” today at 10am PST… a church service of sorts<\/a>. It won’t be about iPods or iPhones – anything about them will come later this fall. This is about new iMacs. I’m probably Mac’d out – my powers of rationalization probably aren’t strong enough to justify a new iMac…though I am working on it.
\nHere, from the fine folks at MacWorld is their prediction\/wish list<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n– A new iMac: The iMac is way overdue for some updates. Brushed aluminum, new CPUs, new motherboard, new monitor sizes, high definition DVD support? We\u2019ll know in just a little more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n


\n– A new mini: The mini is just as aged as the iMac, so expect to see some changes here, too\u2014that is unless Apple has decided that the mini has no future with the company. If that\u2019s true, that would mean the only Mac one could buy without a monitor would be the Mac Pro, and I just don\u2019t see that happening. So we\u2019ll see a mini with perhaps some small changes to the case (goodbye white top, hello all-aluminum box), some speed-bumped CPUs, and a larger hard drive.
\n– .Mac enhancements: As Apple itself has noted in the message above, .Mac will be offline for \u201cmaintenance\u201d tomorrow from 10 a.m. to noon Pacific time\u2014exactly when the company will brief the press. You don\u2019t need a degree in genetic bioengineering to suspect that the two are somehow related. More storage space, better integration with various apps, and maybe even a return of some level of free service?
\n– Leopard\u2019s ship date: Apple has already told us October, but that\u2019s all. I expect we\u2019ll hear a firm ship date for OS X 10.5. If I had first pick in the office pool, Friday, October 26 would be my pick.
\n– iWork \u201908 and iLife \u201908 preview: Steve Jobs will demonstrate iLife and iWork, and announce that both will be available when Leopard ships in October. Some are expecting the suite to be released at the special event, but I think both will rely on Leopard technologies, and will ship at the same time as the new OS. Note that I am not saying iLife\/iWork will be Leopard only, but rather that they\u2019ll include some features that require Leopard. Apple won\u2019t want to pass up sales to OS X 10.4 users, but, as my colleague Philip Michaels suggested last month, the company will use some Leopard-related features as upgrade incentives.
\nOK, so much for my rational predictions. I still don\u2019t see the above taking a full two hours, so that leaves room for two personal pet projects.
\n– The Mythical midrange Mac minitower: The big brother to the mini, this box provides expansion options to those who want them, but don\u2019t want or need the power (and expense) associated with the Mac Pro. I doubt we\u2019ll see this one, though, as I think it would cannibalize Mac Pro sales too much.
\n– The MacLightBook Pro: This is the missing link in Apple\u2019s portable lineup. A smaller machine with a 13-inch LED backlit 1,280-by-800 resolution screen powered by a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 video adapter, weight of 3.7 pounds, built-in camera and microphone, 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo CPU with 2GB of memory and 4GB of cache, a 200GB SATA hard drive, SuperDrive, built-in 802.11a\/b\/g wireless, and built-in Ethernet. Impossible, you say? Well, Sony builds a full line of machines with those specs. If Sony can do it, and Apple\u2019s now using the same industry-standard parts, why can\u2019t we have a MacLightBook Pro? I would sell my MacBook Pro in a heartbeat for such a machine\u2014even if it cost the same or more than the MacBook Pro!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you can make heads or tails of that last prediction please translate for the rest of us. I mean a “NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 video adapter”??? Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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