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Top 10 rumors about tomorrow's Apple MacBook event
It's time for the Mac notebooks to go through their annual renewal, and we're hearing rumors right and left. Tomorrow at 1pm EDT is when the big rollout begins, and there's a plethora of guesswork about what we'll be seeing.
Rather than sending you gallivanting all over the web, we figured we'd just gather all the scuttlebutt together in one place for your perusal, amusement, and individual speculation. Behold the scanty info, and please, no wagering:
1. Lower Price: There will be a cheapo $800 MacBook, a full $300 less then the current lowest-price model. Also, there will be 12 "price points" of MacBook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air and the new model. That's up from the current 8 price points.
2. The new, rounded and slim MacBook will be carved out of a brick of solid, aircraft-grade aluminum. It's a good idea — no screws are necessary to hold the thing together, and its solidity means no seams and no bending to create those sexy curves, eliminating weak spots.
3. The MacBook in the event invitation is a 13.3-inch machine, says Boing Boing, judging from the width of the Apple logo depicted in the illustration.
4. It could be a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro, adds 9-to-5 Mac.
5. The MacBooks are going to be two-tone, with aluminum on the inside and black on the outside.
6. There's also going to be an all-in-one Mac with Apple TV inside, explaining why the Apple TV hardware hasn't been revised in a long while. It'll be the rack-width size of home theater components, and may have a TB+ sized hard drive inside.
7. The new MacBooks will have glass multi-touch touchscreens in place of touchpads.
8. The Mac Mini will be redesigned. That "Brick" will look like a miniature Mac Pro desktop machine. Cute.
9. The Brick will be a Mac tablet with a touchscreen, near the top of many a Mac fan's wish list for years. Using the tech chops developed with the MacBook Air, this tablet will be bigger than an iPhone, smaller than a MacBook Air.
10. The MacBooks will support Blu-ray drives. This is so long overdue that we will laugh if it's not true.
By Vance at 6:44 PM ON 10/13/08
Wouldn't it have been better to just wait a day and post what actually happened at the event?
By loki88 at 8:59 PM ON 10/13/08
i agree
By Batwaffel at 10:16 PM ON 10/13/08
They are just doing it so they can shove more Mac crap down our throats. What would Dvice be without 400 new articles on a new Mac product?
By shinyfish at 10:27 PM ON 10/13/08
Well you three, seeing how you are all TOO cool to be interested in mac gossip, why did you click the jump button at the bottom of the article in order to read the predictions, hmmm? And batwaffel, it seems that you WANT mac crap shoved down your throat, or you would not have read the rest of the article. And if you only clicked the jump button in order to slander the content, then you are just sad.
By Vance at 1:28 AM ON 10/14/08
I'm honored that you think I am cool, but I'm not. And while we're on the subject of things I'm not: I wasn't slandering the post. (Don't you agree that the post that will no-doubt be made after the event to point out the highlights and exclaim over the surprises will be more popular and interesting than this one? Because that's all I said.) I said nothing about the quality of this article; I just don't understand the point of posting an article of rumors one good nap away from the real deal. It doesn't give enough time for discussion.
By Traveler at 12:39 PM ON 10/14/08
who cares
By Drywall at 2:18 PM ON 10/14/08
TIme to start laughing: no Blu-ray.
By shinyfish at 12:59 AM ON 10/15/08
Lol, true, true :) I was mainly going after the third guy, I just caught the rest of you in the crossfire of the first sentence. And for the record, yes I think that they do get a little apple-crazy, which also makes me a hypocrite for reading this...but isn't it all so delectably addicting ;P
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