Comments on: 8 Predictions for Macworld 2008

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:31:44 +0000

why would they update the macbook and macbook pro if it was just updated in november?

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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:28:29 +0000

What about APPLE TELEVISION SETs in the NEAR FURUTRE with built in Appletv?? And to go with the TV’s, SUBSCRIPTIONS to Itunes that allow for competition with the major cable and satelite providers??

Sounds like a winning idea to me. It would bring apple to the front lines of TV-on-demand.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:27:14 +0000

Adding a touch screen feature to a laptop or desktop would be horrible. The position you would need to be in to operate the UI screen would just be… weird? Having keyboard onscreen would be nice if you enjoy having half of your screen occupied by a input UI. In the world of design and coding, more landscape = better.

Mouse + keyboard + wacom is such a better combo then being able to finger paint on screen. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the idea of an iTablet!

By: anon

anon — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:12:50 +0000

Yeah a mac nano, what an AMAZING PRODUCT. Cheapskates will be so happy. There is no way that will be the “one more thing” product, the mac mini is a lame product, like half an imac. It’s not cool and nobody cares about it

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By: Surfguitarshredder

Surfguitarshredder — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:49:35 +0000

Mac needs to get this together. But they won’t because they have converted from a computer company to a consumer electronics company. Have you seen the Sony eReader and the music pad pro? If that was 8×10 or 10×12, and wireless, and documents could be marked up, every student (millions of them) would using this thing to read textbooks in class instead of carrying around huge tomes from the school store. Where will they get these pdf versions of textbooks? From frat guys that scan those $200 overpriced schoolbooks and sell the pdfs for $20 each until they get emailed around, which will be in about a week. The students will be able to buy the iTablet less than the amount of money they spend on one year’s worth of textbooks, which is about a thousand bucks. Not only that, but professors could WIFI class documents from their iTablets tot he iTablets of the students, and they could receive papers submitted by the students the same way. Professors would much rather mark up students papers on their iTablets and email them back than to carry around those huge stacks submitted papers.
This brings us to Apple going “green.” If Apple wanted to reduce the absurd paperload of universities, they would make the iTablet. But they won’t, because Apple is not green. Apple is about mega-consumption, which anti-green.

By: MMM

MMM — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:13:34 +0000

but there is one more thing….
BLU-RAY

By: ia

ia — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:21:07 +0000

something small and handy like the Asus eee pc would be nice, but with a 10 inch screen!

By: david k.

david k. — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:42:31 +0000

I really really really hope for a 13.3″ (or 12″) aluminium laptop.
Even if it’s just a 13″ macbook, just please make it in aluminium.
How cool would black aluminium laptops be (like the iPod nano black).

maaaaan i’d love that.

And clearly, some people are really hoping for a 15″ macbook.
I mean, alot of people want a bigger screen, but don’t want the bigger price. I can understand where they’re coming from.

but whatever, I just want my 13″ aluminium laptop, i hate the plastic-y look of a regular laptop.. and the white too. Oh well.

By: Eric Norton

Eric Norton — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:17:33 +0000

Most of your predictions feel like they’re pretty spot on. However, I disagree that only the Macbooks will be updated. I think there will be sweeping updates through the entire Macbook and Macbook Pro lineup.

A 13.3″ Macbook Pro would be oh so sweet.

By: Kenny Terell

Kenny Terell — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:58:55 +0000

i think you are spot on with the comments there

you even missed out the mac pro – and thats brilliant because they didnt really do anything with that did they?

lol

also you missed out the blue ray and hd-dvd subject which they havent really done anything with

the mac pro showed up a lot -

i hope that they do release the ‘one more thing’ product otherwise apple have lost their speed…

By: a

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:17:48 +0000

cool

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By: HandyMan

HandyMan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:13:01 +0000

The LCDs on the current 17″ MacBook Pros are so crappy…I’m TRULY hoping that Mac gets its act together and makes them all with the new LED technology and backlighting that’s actually worthy of the high price tag.

I’m also hoping that the new Intel Penryn processor will make its way into the MacBook Pros this year.

By: david

david — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:06:34 +0000

There’s probably won’t be a mac iTablet this year, but its definately – and I say definately – something that will come sooner then later. think about it;
- 13.3″ BLU LED screen
- ultra thin with blue-ray DVD
- runs full blow mac osx
- full multi-touch screen

the main concern people have in input, do u really want to use a cluttering on-screen keyboard? the answer is: if u want, the device will come with a slick slim bluetooth keyboard/mouse (maybe a bundled dock too)

if mac released one i would buy it tomorrow, because currently i have an iMac and a regular PC laptop, a tablet would be all i need on the road to access emails, watch movies and work

By: a man

a man — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:06:31 +0000

i dont think that there will be a iTablet. It would be way to expensive. most people that buy a computer for that price use it for work. i just cant imagine the iTablet being very useful in anything but games, viewing pictures, videos,….entertainment etc. since it wouldnt have a keyboard. Face it guys, there just arent enough people that could afford to buy a “toy” with this pricetag.

By: Paul Boswell

Paul Boswell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:30:28 +0000

I would expect to see a lower priced, entry-level Apple TV, possibly as low as $99 since Apple needs to adopt the strategy well established by Kodak that you give the “camera” away because the REAL money is in the ongoing film sales. Also look for a Apple TV+ with a DVD player, since this is the key missing component of Apple TV. DVDs still provide vastly superior pictures (not to mention extras) to downloadable m4vs. Most of Netflix’ business is still DVD based, for example. I suspect most people also have quite a few DVDs around the house too. It might make sense to include an option to order a Blu-Ray or HDTV drive since stores carry these discs but still very few players. However, I predict that consumers will weigh-in on the side of video on demand over HD video for some time to come. Too few people have the necessary hardware for HD and the software (movies) is still very limited. Remember, it took over 20 years for people to accept color TV over black & white. By the way, the biggest liability to Apple TV is the name. People assume it needs to work with their PCs and people think Apples and PCs are incompatible. They should have tried harder to come up with a completely brand-neutral name, as they did with iPod. So, we can only hope they rename it.

IF Jobs chooses to announce the G3 iPhone, expect him to drop the price another $100 to clear out remaining inventory of the current model. This would be consistent with other maturing cellphone products, like the recent Motorola Razr. If he’s smart, the Apple store will take pre-orders for iPhone 2 immediately. (This is a stupid omission from the first release).

A Mac Nano is highly unlikely because of the practical size limits imposed by the a CD/DVD ROM drive. As I said, the biggest argument against Apple TV is the lack of a DVD drive. For just a little more money you’re far better off with a Mac Mini as your home entertainment computer. The Mini was greatly improved with the upgrade to 4 USB ports (vs. the 2 original). So, a smaller form factor would only reduce the features with no real benefit. More likely, if there are any changes to the Mini line at all, we’ll see at least one new color (black) or possibly several colors, like the iPods. Also the “Nano” name is too closely associated with iPods to extend to Mac computer products.

Apple may introduce a Mini Tower, which is a missing product from their lineup. These are about 2/3 the size of a standard tower but would be in about the same class as higher-end iMacs. This would appeal to a lot of users who want to use their own, cheaper, displays but still have a Mac.

We’ll see next week.

By: Buccaneer

Buccaneer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:16:52 +0000

I believe that Steve Jobs will be announcing the following new products:

1. A microcomputer which is portable and has its own VDU and keyboard – possibly attached, and all neatly arranged in a carry box about the size of two briefcases. Though unlikely, it would be nice if it had some sort of removable storage capabilities – wow, digital would be great!

2. A wireless telephone unit with number buttons instead of the standard mechanical dial. It would hopefully have an LED display showing the time, date, seconds and the channel or frequency you are speaking on.

3. A music device which I think could quite easily be called “iDisco” which allows you to play music from a number of 7 inch or 12 inch long players records in a row – I would wager it will use the stacking mechanism but with a sort of braile reading device which swipes each disk before dropping down to AUTOMATICALLY select 33 or 45 rpm speed. If I get my wish they will have an armband-mounted version which I can take jogging.

4. One more thing… An office device incorporating dried food and hot water heating – to create INSTANT HOT FOOD. I have no idea how this would be realised but I can see that fruit manufacturers may get upset that the snack as we know it (e.g. a standard factory produced apple or biscuit) will be redundant.

I love technology!

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:10:53 +0000

I say NEW DESIGN Macbook Pros we havent seen a new design of the macbook pros in a very long time not since the powerbook G4s and i would love to see a Geforce 8800M GTX put in it too with 512 graphics ram make it a real gaming notebook COME ON APPLE WE WANT NEW MBPs

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:02:34 +0000

Any idea when we can expect to see new Cinema Displays? I’m really looking forward to getting a built in iSight in a Cinema Display since I generally keep my MBP docked to an external keyboard & monitor when I’m not traveling. Its annoying not having iSight when the lid is closed.

By: Richard Prince

Richard Prince — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:48:47 +0000

First, I wish you gamers would shut up and go play with you Wii-wees. Masturbation junkies.

OK, this list of predictions is really lame. Mac Nano… do you really know what you are talking about? NO. That’s why you are so bad at making predictions because you have put so little thought into Apple’s partnerships, product alliances, their patents and the direction of the technologies.

Right now Apple’s touch screen implementations are blowing everybody out of the water and they must move on it fast. Adding to their portable Mac line with a low-power subnotebook is essential. And you are say NEVER, EVER, EVER… (in bold text) get some perspective. Who let’s you write crap?

I agree with the earlier poster that said if Apple doesn’t significantly upgrade AppleTV it is a dead product line for them. All indications are that they will turn this into a video-on-demand platform in partnership with studios and certain Disney (no brainer). I’d be willing to speculate that Jobs sees DVD drives as a passing technology and not something to include in the portable and laptop lines in the future.

By: Sockel

Sockel — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:00:10 +0000

I agree with most of the predictions. Not the Mac Nano, though, and I miss the MacBook Pro Upgrade.

On point I never saw discussed anywhere, and which I firmly believe will come: The iTunes Update will also include the possibility to buy iPhone applications through the iTunes store. Because this will be the way Apple will keep control of the iPhone software. The only way to install third-party applications on your (unhacked) iPhone will be through iTunes.