The Odds at Macworld

Moby Cock writes "Jason O'Grady has posted the odds on what is to be announced at the Macworld Expo beginning next week. Coming in at 100:1 is OS X 10.5 and even money on a new and sexy Intel Mac Minis and iBooks. Gentlemen, start your credit cards."

How will we know?

[tcoady]

According to macrumors.com there will be a blackout:

Thank you for your email. A replay will be available on http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mac.html [apple.com], but there are no plans for live streaming.

Re:The irony

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing new. Sony designed the PB100.

Re:Price increases for iTunes

[jone1941]

Try emusic.com (look it's not even a referral link just the url). I like it so much I don't even care about the referral bonus for me! Seriously, even at the cheapest plan ($10/month) you get 40 tracks which is about $3/album depending on the number of tracks. It's largely independent labels so you aren't buying into the BS being shoved down the MTV/Radio tunnel of crap. Oh yeah and you get more tracks per $ with bigger plans and discounts on yearly purchases. God I should just get a job working for them.

"Journalism"

[mblase]

How will we know?

Major and minor Mac news sites like Macintouch [macintouch.com] and MacNN [macnn.com] always have someone in the audience blogging the Apple presentation in real time. Lately Apple's been blocking wi-fi connections during the presentation, but you still get the information immediately after it's over.

Re:Nah....

[iotaborg]

Where have you been? The 'Mighty Mouse' has 4 'buttons' already.

Re:Jobs is the Anti Buddha

[SteeldrivingJon]

". I wonder if he tries to reconcile this in some consumerist branch of Buddhism."

Buddhism has a tenet known as "right livelihood", and for a layman selling consumer products doesn't violate it. Things like being a butcher, or selling intoxicants, or selling weapons would, but not the selling of computers, regardless of how pre-expo rumors can have a seemingly intoxicating effect on Mac fans.

Technically, it's the users doing it to themselves.

Re:iLife '06 comes in at 10:1

[Moby Cock]

I'd like to see what Apple could produce in this area.

As would I, however, in the meantime, perhaps this [iggsoftware.com] may interest you.

We're definitely getting Intel Macs.

[GFLPraxis]

Check ThinkSecret- they're almost always right, and cite reliable sources (the same ones that leaked the iPod Photo and Mac Mini originally) that we'll have an Intel iBook and Mini.

Re:Nah....

[Jeremi]

Where have you been? The 'Mighty Mouse' has 4 'buttons' already

In my experience, the 'Mighty Mouse' is difficult to use as a two-button mouse, because if you have a finger resting on the "left-button region" of the mouse, tapping on the "right-button region" gets interpreted as left-clicking rather than right-clicking. In order to successfully do a right-click, you have to remember to lift your finger off of the left-button region first, which is really unintuitive and annoying.

Have other people noticed this problem also, or am I doing something wrong?

Re:Jobs is the Anti Buddha

[dr.badass]

Curious how Jobs being buddhist, he is responsible for such slavering of desire (according to the above, amongst the 'ignorant') in the products he works to create

I think you're misreading Buddhism. The Desire and Ignorance spoken of in the passage you quoted are personal in scope. One quenches his own desire, destroys his own ignorance, and thus (eventually) relieves his own suffering.

The desire for the product exists in the individual consumer, who is his own responsibility. Do people really blame Steve Jobs for somehow forcing them to desire things? If you're "suffering" from desire for an iPod, that's your own damn problem.

That said, it is wrong conduct to scheme and pursue gain for it's own sake, and one could argue that these are unavoidable for the CEO of a large corporation, but I suppose that's up to the adherent to decide.

Hm it seems doubtful Apple products are actually the path to spiritual awakening.

Who ever claimed they were?

Re:Why the "Replace Tivo" hardon?

[Kitsune78]

Umm, not going to try to "convert" you, but I want to point out that a phone line hasn't been required for almost two years. In fact, my Tivos have never been on a phone line, and I wouldn't even know if the modems didn't work.

Re:Intel Integrated Graphics

[Glock27]

I doubt that, only because I don't think the integrated graphics would be adequate for Tiger's eye candy.

Your doubts are unfounded, the demo Jobs gave at the Intel announcement WWDC were all on a desktop box with integrated graphics - identical to all the x86 development boxes that've been sent out.

Re:SpeedBump's Mini wishlist

[Whatchamacallit]

The region issue and unskippable portions have to due with the DVD standard to which the DVD Player 'complies'. The content creator puts those lockdowns in there. i.e. MPIAA, production studio, etc. There are ways around those features but then you are breaking the law... Apple has to comply to those features or they will loose their ability to distribute the DVD player at all (they license the codes to unlock DVD's). DVDJon wrote DeCSS so he could simply 'play' DVD's under Linux with a side effect that you can also copy the DVD. DeCSS makes it possible to unlock a DVD without the authorized license codes. Therefore, it bypasses the DVD standard controls. DeCSS is included in most Linux systems so that's why it works so well for you.

Re:My breakdown...

[toddestan]

Apple's had widescreen laptops for years. I think your parent post was saying they'd be the first to drop 4:3 entirely. Hence the world "entirely" contained therein.

Except that they would not be first. I checked a random PC laptop vender (Sony) and they don't have any non-widescreen models at the moment. Sorry.