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Another Apple Special Event Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-announcements dept.

Sabathius writes "Hard on the heels of the last 'Special Event,' Mac Rumors reports that Apple will make another announcement on the 25th of September just one day before Photokina, a world-wide a photography/imaging gathering in Germany. There are rumors of a new version of Aperture (based on the lens image on the invitation matching the one on the Aperture box), as well as the possibility of a MacBook Pro update."

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  1. We can only hope!!! by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please let it be a 12" widescreen iPod with touchscreen interface, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in dual CDMA/GSM phone functionality with wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones! Oh please oh please oh please Steve!

  2. What is the point of this article? by frankie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article blurb already sums up EVERYTHING that is known about this coming event. It coincides with a professional photography conference. The invite is a close-up of Aperture's logo. Aperture obviously matters a lot to that crowd, not so much to other people.

    ThinkSecret doesn't have any more info about it than that. TUAW doesn't have any more info about it than that. MacRumors and MacOSRumors don't have any more info about it than that. Most likely there *is* no more info about it than that.

    Aperture update, and maybe the new MBP too. End of story. Next time, how about waiting until there's actually something worth discussing, mmmkay?

    1. Re:What is the point of this article? by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Funny

      I've been looking in to it and I've found some remarkable information that might be interesting here.

      Apple has been trying to find a way to shoe the Core 2 Duo into a MacBook and, frankly, it's not working out. The chip just uses too much power and generates too much heat.

      So, don't expect an upgraded MBP this year. Instead, look for an amazing announcement next August at the WWDC. Jobs is going to announce a remarkable new development - the entire Apple line is switching to Sparc. They've been talking to Jonathan Schwartz, and he's sold them on the next generation of multiple core Sparcs, the successor to Niagara, codenamed "Viagra." For the last eight years, Mac OS X has been living an amazing, hitherto secret, triple life, running on PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc architectures.

      When the 64 bit version of that'll not fit in a laptop, they'll announce a switch to MIPS in 2009, and a switch to ARM in 2011.

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  3. Re:Definition of 'special' by tbone1 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Would a new version of Aperture be big enough to qualify as a 'special' event? It would be of interest to photo pros, but hardly anyone else.

    Given that we are talking about a big trade show for photography professionals, I'd say that it is potentially a special event for those at the trade show.

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  4. Re:Working Software... by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 3, Insightful
    >Like the pile of trash that is iTunes 7 on my copy of Microsoft Windows.

    fixed a bug in your rant. happy to help.

  5. Re:Aperture update? by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any chance of the rumored Video iPod finally coming out I wonder???

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  6. Re:apple hardware updates by John+Nowak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here, have some, you may need them one day: ................

  7. Re:Definition of 'special' by lionel77 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Given that we are talking about a big trade show for photography professionals, I'd say that it is potentially a special event for those at the trade show.
    Can we please stop these baseless speculations? What's next? Someone suggesting that a keynote at Apple's World Wide Developer conference is actually geared towards the attending OS X developers?