So, Colin and I decided we would post our thoughts on what is going to be announced at the Keynote on Monday. Below are my predictions. We'll see how it goes.
Mac Pro
- 2+ GHz Core 2 Duo or Xeon Chips ( 30%/70% )
MacBook Pro (2nd Generation)
- I put a 50% chance that we'll see a revision of the MacBook Pro's with Core 2 Duo Chips
iPod Video V2
- 15% chance of a iPod revision
iPhone
- I put a 50% shot of seeing a iPhone or apple phone of some sort
Mac OS X Leapord
- Tabbed Finder ( 10% )
- Finder Sporting Unified Look ( 25% )
- Safari spotting Unified Look ( 50% )
- New version of Xcode ( 95% )
- Charts (new app ( 5% ))
- Movies on iTunes ( 75% ) Rental based ( 70% ), Keeps based ( 15% ), Subscription based ( 15% )
- iChat with tabs ( 25% )
- Spotlight 2 performance boost of at least 20-30% ( 70% )
- Heavily redesigned Finder ( 70% )
- Full screen in Quicktime (regular w/o pro) ( 2% ), Fullscreen is in iTunes, use iTunes for video viewing.
- iCal public framework for integration into other apps ( 2% )
- Dashboard widgets natively on the desktop w/o dev hack ( 5% )
- Voip on iChat ( 75% )
- Software Update on other Apple Consumer Apps ( 80% )
Today was a long day. Breakfast at the Marriott at 8 AM, and a whole day of presentations. The career fair seemed good. I talked to a few companies and gave out a few resumes (I forgot to bring resumes so I had to pay a few dollars to print off a few copies at a copy center). Attached is a picture from the window of the hotel room.
I need to get ready for tomorrow. I've got to get up early to hurry up and wait in line for picking seats at the keynote.