Macworld 2007: Behind The Scenes Options

[Alex Oughton]

It's that time of year again, and with the rumor mill spinning as fast as ever, SetteB.IT have posted an interesting set of behind-the-scenes photos from the setup for this year's Macworld.

InsanelyMac as always will be steering clear of some of the more 'dubious' rumors doing the rounds this year, but look forward to a complete roundup of all of the facts after this year's keynote from Steve Jobs.

Until then, let's all just salivate over this photo set...

[Simania_NL]

This new front page add on the apple.com website makes me wonder what they're up to.
I find it a little daring statement to say the least.

[user2]

lets hope it's not a repeat of the 20Th anniversary.

This post has been edited by user2: Jan 8 2007, 01:54 AM

[pyrates]

Someone I know who works in shipping said they recieved a high number of shipments, more then the usual amount, of apple products. But they weren't allowed to open the boxes at all to count the number of products in their to be sure none were missing. So Apple is definately launching either an ipod update or their rumoured ipod with cell phone capabilities product. Just thought I'd let everyone know. Here's the convo by the way:

<+xxxxx1> i've got some news... i work at a freight company up in canada and we handle stuff for apple... this past week, we had 5x the usual volume of apple freight we handle
<+xxxxx1> i guess they are coming out with something HUGE
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: did u take a peak inside the apple boxes?
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: they were sealed inside crates
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: darn, thought u could be an inside source
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: usually we are supposed to do an item/package count to make sure that the number on the packing list and the actual number of items match... we were not allowed to do that this time round
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: damn, apple has control of everything
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: put it on an xray machine, see what is inside it
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: we didn't even get the packing list... alll we were told that there are supposed to be this many skids of these dimensions weighing this many pounds
<+xxxxx2> damn lol
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: all of those are scheduled for monday evening delivery to the various stores... some even late night
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: oh man, now we all know apple is announcing something
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: i had exactly the same feeling
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: and it's gonna be HUGE
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: I would sense that
<+xxxxx2> xxxxx1: so it had the weight of it on the box?
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: i have no idea how many boxes there were in the skids... usually we have that number to make sure nothing went missing in transit
<+xxxxx1> xxxxx2: most of the apple freight we handle are less than 5 lbs. per piece

I've taken out the actual nicks here so that no one gets in trouble of course

[GBK.Xscape]

haha this is awesome, i would guess the iTV. it has been something i have been personally waiting for

[Lostgame]

I dunno, the iTV seems kinda...not what I'm looking forward to at all. I have absolutely no interest in it whatsoever.

[kevin_4e]

A new iPod would be very great with all the Christmas money of mine I'm also not too thrilled about iTV unless they introduce something really inovative. Can anyone refresh me on the 20th anniversary?

[sHARD>>]

A new iPod would be very great with all the Christmas money of mine I'm also not too thrilled about iTV unless they introduce something really inovative. Can anyone refresh me on the 20th anniversary?

http://lowendmac.com/ppc/tam.shtml

[joe75]

iTV, who's doing the copying now

[GBK.Xscape]

yea but for some reason i think the iphone or new ipod would not that muich of a success i think it would be a hit at first like the zune but will not sustain a good amount of sales because at the time something as complete as the iphone wouldnt be able to hold as many songs as a an ipod should hold, at least 5,000 IMHO.

[Alex Oughton]

Personally I don't care what gets announced as long as there's something a bit concrete on Leopard. A launch date would be nice.

[Takuro]

Someone I know who works in shipping said they recieved a high number of shipments...

Nice job. You made it onto the front page of Digg without actually releasing any information whatsoever. Welcome to the land of pre-Macworld fanboy hype.

But on a serious note: I doubt it's going to be an iPod or a cell phone. From what I've heard, Apple still doesn't have anything set up as far as service providers and actual calling plans. If there really is a big shipment coming in, we might be in store for a bit of a surprise. Either Apple miraculously finished the new "true video" iPod in time for Mac World, or it's something else that hasn't even been mentioned yet.

This particular Mac World is obviously a lot bigger than the annual summer Keynote. Apple's really going to go "all out" because it's their 30th birthday. I'd expect Leopard to be shipping a little ahead of schedule, plus some other hardware-related goodies.

The only thing I'm 100% certain of is a new iLife and iWork (probably under different names. They're moving away from using the "i" prefix to everything.) It's basically guarenteed since new releases have been introduced at Mac World every single year.

[CoolBits]

They will release OSX Tiger for any PC with semthex kernel... and keep Leopard mac only... (i wish)

[Simania_NL]

This is the vision of "Reuters", about what's going to happen:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....echnologyNews-1

[other]

iPhone anyone?
Remember iTV and iPhone are still codenames for these products.

As ever, I'm looking forward to the supprise Apple will bring to us.

[jtwh20]

They will release OSX Tiger for any PC with semthex kernel... and keep Leopard mac only... (i wish) tongue.gif

now that would be something

[dio]

But, for sure, everibody is waiting ...

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[Alessandro17]

It surprises me that we can have so many Guests.

[Alessandro17]

As ever, I'm looking forward to the supprise Apple will bring to us.

Me too. Very much so.

[t3mur]

Is it possible to watch it live?? I live in ny... and if not, will apple.com post the video like they did last time?