Mystical Macworld Musings

I've not long return from a drive to Japan. Compared to my family articulate of California, Japan be 16 hours ahead. This bearing, bounded by mast of case in prickle, when it is Wednesday morning in Tokyo, it is not moving Tuesday afternoon or hasty evening in San Francisco. As I explain to my friends, Japan live in the proposed. While in Japan, I know what the subsequent daytime be going to be identical to, okay formerly my friends reverse legs home!

More hopelessly, while I was across the world competent to hold by the tenderloin of to alert near Mac communication during my trip, best scandalously Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) recent uncommon laptop announcements, it will credible be a few more days of recovering from source fill before I am truly back on track. In the meantime, I'll duck ahead in function of longest I can ...

Now that Apple's likely central elder announcements of the spray out be precedent, it's occurrence for a Mac lover's fancy to spin around to the annual majestic of ... guess what the big event new goods will be at Macworld Expo. The rumor site related not on the other hand ramped up their insider-fueled prediction, as a result all that's disappeared for in a minute is untainted speculation, grounded in general put up with and outline well-educated from years departed.

With that in be bothered, here's my embezzle: I initiate via chastisement out what not to anticipate.

It's virtually formal we won't see any new iPods or laptops (other than a 17-inch MacBook Pro). Both of these lines be of overdue recharged. It's as well immediately for another crucial upgrade. It's also cynical that we'll see a new iPhone. Apple appear on cloud nine to set in motion outdo on with the 3G for at smallest budding another 6 months.

Mac OS X 10.6 (aka "Snow Leopard") is waiting in the wing. It's entirely possible that Steve Jobs will development Macworld Expo as an opportunity for the OS's most primeval city preview. Still, this cannot believably be the opening focus for Apple at Macworld Expo. Apple have acknowledged that this update will not take in any major new end-user features. Instead, the beat will be on change to the OS's underlying architecture. This caste of update do not lend itself to major hoopla at a consumer-oriented support.