Apple Insider has the scoop, with fingers crossed as always: Macworld’s big bust-out will be the long-awaited, much-speculated (including here), disk driveless ultra-lite notebook. Drat, and I was planning to upgrade from my PowerBook next week!
There’s so much pent-up demand for this baby, and combined with the Leopard upgrade it promises to give so much pop to Apple sales, that some boosters have put a target of $350 for the stock price (currently around $155 on profit-taking and general jitters after passing $190). Even conservative analysts are talking $225. So if you’re looking for a safe haven from the weak dollar, the shaky financial market and the DJ index, here’s your chance. You might want to wait till the profit-taking ride ends to jump in. If recent history is an indicator, the stock will roll back up as fast as it unraveled.
Of course it could all be smoke signals aimed at backstopping shares and pimping Macworld…but that would freeze current Apple sales during the crucial holiday period.
What I find far more interesting than yet another over-hyped Apple launch with its recquisite worship of Steve are the growing reports of serious flaws in Leopard OS. Seems it has been known to actually destroy user data. But I’m confident Apple fans will spin that into a positive development.
PS. I’d much rather read about local politics on this website than tech news.
One thing to keep in mind about tech stocks is that banks are big buyers of IT equipment and services, and banks wrote off 10’s of billions of bad mortgage paper. In other words, the computer industry’s biggest customers don’t have the cash to buy stuff. That’s why IBM shares got clobbered this week. I don’t want to be in tech right now. In fact, I don’t think putting money anywhere into this market is a good idea until we get a clearer picture of where the economy is going, and how deep the market selloff will go.
rll
me too.
As for the Mac, a disc less machine is hardly all that exciting and both Toshiba and Sony have built ultralights for some time.
Next thing you know Jobs will announce the iSlate .. a tablet mac.
Maybe by then the gPAD will be available with its free network based OS. My understanding is that Handroid has now fully solved the writing recognition problem and the gPhone will come with free, sponsor supported access to Sprint.
Negraponte, BTW, will announce that he has agreed to be the CSO for Handroid.
In the meantime, HBO has promised to develop its first interactive drama exclusively for the gNET. Th drama follows the day to day life story of an ordinary California family that is headed by a self serving CEO of a computer company. Of course the drama will be called, “Falsetto.”
In the first episode, the protagonist, played by Tom Cruise, is seen demeaning his closest colleagues for their incompetence in designing the cablew tie for the new power supply. His line becomes a byword for the seriesm as Cruise scowls . “You expect me to sell a power supply cord with a black twist tie!?” and raps a huge tie around the neck of his nearest colleague.
Meanwhile, Crusie’s significant other, played by Meryl Streep, is giving lessons in Tantric sex to their 14 year old daughter, played by Chelsea Clinton. A crisis occurs when Cruise learns that his major rival, played by Kevin Spacey, is about to announce that he has decided to turn his entire company into a non profit arm of the UN with financing from China and Saudi Arabia.
In the meantime, the co-founder of Cruise’s company, an infant savant grown into an adult has belatedly decided to run for the Republican nomination for President. Of course the co-founder is played by Dustan Hoffman.
More to follow.
RR
I don’t think Apple is in that sort of computer business.
Well, as a Mac user who was thinking of getting a new laptop in the next year or two, I’m definitely interested in seeing what they come out with. But I do have some concerns about the OS…wonder if users could ‘downgrade’ to Tiger?
rll,
Isn’t Chelsea a bit old to play a 14 year-old? From the rest of your cast, it is apparent that you are firmly stuck in the last Century, dude.
Let’s update: for Cruise, how about Owen Wilson; for Spacey, Colin Ferrel; for Streep, Scarlett Johannson; for the girl, how about Emma Watson, in a breakout role!
@6 Tlaz
Well the guy playing JObs today is himself older than the role so????
As for Chelsea .. I agree but could not come up with a current ingenue who was sufficiently doe eyed for the part.
Mac Shmac. I won’t even buy an Ipod, but I’d be interested in this……..
http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/geek/ipood.html
Or you could just go buy an Asus Eee PC with embedded Linux right now.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on this one not having a disk drive. There’s some interesting work being done with hybrid drives for notebooks where you minimize the power drain of the drive (spinning up takes a lot of battery power) by interfacing with it through NAND flash memory, in a sense increasing the memory cache until it’s like another drive.
The Apple Insider article only mentions optical drives.