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Steve Jobs announces new Macs tomorrow at the annual MacWorld New York conference. [update: coverage of the keynote is below] The faithful, as usual, have whipped themselves into a frothy speculative frenzy trying to predict exactly what the new offerings will be, but this year there seems to be almost no leaked information to go by. New iMacs, for sure, but all the flat panel rumors that had been floating around for weeks (including the outlandish wireless detachable tablet screen iMac) have dried up. Could they really deliver a mere speed bump and new color choices? (Again?) That machine is getting very tired.
New Powermacs, again for sure, but how interesting can these be? New cases seem like a good bet, but nothing else is really on deck to surprise. Almost everyone seems to agree on 733, 866, 933 mhz for the desktop machines with the possibility of 1 ghz to be announced but not shipping for a few months. Dual processors somewhere in there, but probably not across the entire line (and probably not at the highest clock speed.)
The powerbook G4 (TiBook) won't be updated until September. The rumor from the Merril Lynch analyst about 14 inch display iBooks has to be wrong (who'd buy a TiBook if the iBook had a 14 inch screen?) But that leaves you wondering what could the source at Alpha Top have been talking about? Almost makes you want to start speculating about that tablet thing again, but I just don't see it. Probably the source was just wrong.
We'll see tomorrow. But I've got a bad feeling about this one. Steve better pull something out of his, uhhh... hat.
What happened to lemonyellow?