New Macs expected

News of new Macs expected 6pm London time today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/10/14/dlapple114.xml

Let's see if there are treats are in store, or just marketing hype.

No marketing hype yet: http://www.apple.com/

Tim

Announcement 6pm London time. If you know where to look I guess it will be possible to watch the press conference live. The website update will follow.

The UK Techies are chatting about it here

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17928344

Here is a live Engadget feed

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/live-from-apples-spotlight-turns-to-notebooks-event/

Yes Chris. I am watching the Apple blahney unfold!

But no live video!

Apple store down for updating - that will be the interesting bit.

... and no blu ray. !! oh well ...

Glad I moved to the PC, even if it is more difficult to set up for audio than a Mac.

They do look seriously good though.

A little off topic but do the new Nvida graphic chips help with quality of DVD playback or watching hi-def downloads from Itunes. I am currently happy with the video quality of my mini feeding a Samsung plasma and was hoping for a lower priced notebook so I could switch. I do not know if it is worth the extra cost.

I do wonder what they are up to. You would think they would want to close the gap with Windows' Laptops and increase market share. Instead the gap is approaching a factor of three.

Hi Brian - Can you elaborate on that a little?

The Macbook (not the Macbook Pro) was only marginally more expensive than an equivalent Windows Laptop a year ago, but the price of Windows laptops has been dropping. I was hoping that Apple would respond to these economic realities with a product rather cheaper than the 13" Macbook. So it seems Apple is yet again drifting upmarket. Surely the time is ripe to go for greater market share? They could overplay the "We are better than anyone else" hand: they have done that before.

I wonder what plans they have for the Macmini - again, I was hoping they would improve the specs of that, update the port configuration and sell a "Macmedia". Not to be. Not yet.

A big disappointment.

I will buy a Squeezebox Classic when Amazon have them back in stock for £130. I will buy a Netbook for a third of the price of a Macbook. I will have bitperfect streaming from my desktop PC to my HiFi and the ability to control the streaming from the browser on the Netbook, which I will use for portable and armchair browsing and writing.

As I was saying, so does the London Times

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4944691.ece