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Old 01-14-2008, 11:35 AM   #12 of 33
Carlo Medina
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Re: Oh please, let there be... (Your MacWorld hopes)


Oh please let there be...no new enticing announcements because I have barely recovered from Christmas gift giving!

Seriously, I would welcome (and some of this will be duplicative of above posts) the following products, and are ranked in order of "most likely to get me to buy immediately" to "will wait a while before buying":

1. 2nd gen iPhone with 32GB+ RAM, 3G wireless.

2. "In-Between" Desktop Mac: more powerful than iMac, not as "server oriented" as Mac Pro. Uses Intel desktop chipset (as opposed to iMac which uses the same chipset as the MBP) but does not use ECC RAM. Customizable video card options. Blu-Ray option.

3. "Macbook Air" - the rumored ultralight notebook. I love my 2.33 MBP, but a super-light notebook would essentially get me to turn my MBP into a "desktop replacement" (and I would hook it up to my 20" Dell LCD monitor) and the new Air would be my true mobile solution. Even at 5.5lbs there are times I don't want to lug around my MBP (and I used to own an 8.8lbs laptop!). If the power adapter to the Macbook Air were lighter and more portable than the one for the MBP, I'd take that thing everywhere!

4. Apple TV/Mac Mini Hybrid. Supports 1080p and Leopard. 250GB+ built in HD, support for firewire devices including external HDs. If they also added some OTA HD tuner + DVR functions this would shoot up to #1 on my purchase list.

5. iPod Touch with 32/64GB RAM - 32GB would still be a wait and see, because that's only half of my library. 64GB would hold most everything and I'd buy that right away.

6. iPod Classic with 160GB+ HD but with touchscreen comparable to iPod Touch/iPhone.

7. 24" Apple Cinema Display at 1920x1200 with HDMI input and support for HDCP, 1080p/24, and more competitively priced.
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