Next MacWorld Agenda

[Lt Major Burns]

it's not going to happen, but i could really use the Mac Pro line to be updated, the prices on there havent changed since august 2006.

if i'm going to drop £1500 on a machine, i want more than 1gb of ram, and a geforce 7300 is just rubbish. integrated graphics are better than [ ]300 geforces... the next step up is £100 more for a radeon x1900! the x3900'll be out soon!

basically, they're completely out of date, and/or far too expensive for what they are now

[fryke]

Yeah, what's with the 1 GB standard: Even the MacBook Pro comes with 2 GB default config.

[Thank The Cheese]

I don't buy the ultra-portable touch screen MacBook rumors. I doesn't make sense -- IMO the iPhone over the next few years will morph into an ultra portable mac.

I think OS X 10.6 will run on the iPhone (ie. not a stripped down version like the iPhone's OS X is now)

[Timotheos]

I can see some sort of display re-design. Integrated iSight option? also bringing in some of the black and glass style from the iMac. Would also like to see the environmentally friendly option/standard they released for the macbook pro awhile. Why are the displays so expensive anyway? Easily the nicest displays around, but theres no way I could spend that much money just because it looks good.

[toddersk]

I don't think anyone's mentioned these yet but it appears they're due for an upgrade... this article's a couple of months old now but seems to indicate they'll get a speed bump with the new Penryn chips. Seems to make sense given that they haven't been updated since June. Maybe they won't be available immediately, but I think they'd be close enough to an update to make it worth announcing.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._revealed.html

[Harvey]

Will announcements at the Jan MacWorld affect (lower) the prices of the current MacBooks? I was thinking of buying a MacBook for Christmas but wondering if I should hold out till Jan...

[fryke]

First of all: We simply don't _know_ whether the MacBooks will see an addition or replacement. Maybe it'll just affect the MacBook Pro line. Then again, MWSF is mid-January, and things they announce could take another month 'til release and yet another one 'til wide-availability kicks in. (No 24" iMacs available this Christmas season in Switzerland, basically. Not good for Apple's sales!)

[chevy]

Originally Posted by fryke

[...] No 24" iMacs available this Christmas season in Switzerland, basically. Not good for Apple's sales!)

What do you mean by that ? Shortage ?