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The Odds at Macworld

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-ship-me-review-units-please dept.

Moby Cock writes "Jason O'Grady has posted the odds on what is to be announced at the Macworld Expo beginning next week. Coming in at 100:1 is OS X 10.5 and even money on a new and sexy Intel Mac Minis and iBooks. Gentlemen, start your credit cards."

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  1. Well, my G5 is going on eBay by chipset · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, with the odds being so good, I plan on selling my G5 2.0. I have been waiting for this, as if the laptops are truly coming, I can quit using my ThinkPad for work.

    I am excited, can't wait. This week is CES, next week Macs. Whoohoo!

    1. Re:Well, my G5 is going on eBay by theolein · · Score: 0, Troll

      Makes two of us. I'm pretty certain that Apple will bring out either new iBooks or new Powerbooks next week. I'm really hoping it'll be Powerbooks, but realistically it'll probably be iBooks, but I don't care. I need an x86 machine right now and that will save me a whole shitload of cash in that I'll only need one machine instead of two.

  2. Yipee! A non event by bms20 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Great, I can't wait. The droning on of mac users about how "great" their system is, and how its "so much better" than Windows is what I look forward to.

    I guess sales of aluminum polish and cleaning products will go up, and worldwide productivity down.

    -Brett

  3. Re:The irony by avalys · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, man, that's gotta hurt the Mac zealots even more than the switch to intel. Apple hiring *PC laptop designers* to build the next Powerbook.

    Uh, no, actually I couldn't care less. I was happy about the Intel switch - despite Apple's marketing, Motorola and IBM just haven't been able to deliver the same performance in the G4/G5 as Intel and AMD have with the x86 chips.

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  4. Re:Nah.... by dascandy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Where did you learn to count? People count one, two, many.

    They'll publish an N-button mouse in tradition of the transition from one to two button mice, for a meager price of $20 + $20 * N, or $60 for a 3-button mouse or only $240 for a 12-button mouse. The traditional two-button mouse will be priced down from $50 to $40 with the one-button mouse staying at $20.

    Sad thing is, all Mac software assumes one button so those extra buttons will be doing pretty much nothing the next few... decades or so...

  5. He's never been right.... by primalamn · · Score: 0, Troll

    O'Grady is a tool. The odds of him getting any prediction right, based on his history at PowerPage and now this blog, are about 10,000,000,000:1

  6. Re:The irony by javaxman · · Score: 0, Troll
    Oh, man, that's gotta hurt the Mac zealots even more than the switch to intel. Apple hiring *PC laptop designers* to build the next Powerbook.

    Nothing new there, actually. You hire motherboard designers who have experience... guess what type of chipset they last designed around ? Making the decision to hire former PC laptop designers was even easier this time around...

    Frankly, I guess I don't count as a zealot since I don't care who designs my hardware, as long as it doesn't suck.