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Apple Watch: Tuesday Special Event
Monday, 2007 August 6 - 10:07 pm
New iMacs tomorrow? That's the rumor.

Well, Apple is holding a special media event tomorrow, and everyone is expecting new iMacs. The iMac hasn't been updated in a long time, and Apple has clearly stated that this is a Mac-oriented event, not an iPod- or iPhone-related event.

There are some questions, of course. Will the Mac Mini be updated, or discontinued? Will the new iMacs have a radically new form factor? And, given that the dot.mac web service is going to be down tomorrow, will we see updates there too?

I think the conservative thinking would be to get 20" and 24" iMacs with similar but sleeker enclosures, a speed bumped Mac Mini, and dot.mac with a handful of new iLife-style features.

There are some that believe we'll see touch-screen technology, given what we've seen with the iPhone, as well as Apple's flurry of touch-screen patents. I don't think the time is right for that; touch screens are one thing for a handheld, but for a vertical screen on a desk, that would just be awkward.

Here's some more radical thinking. What about a modular Mac that replaces both the iMac and the Mac Mini? We could finally see the long-awaited headless iMac... but maybe it could even dock to a monitor, using a DuoDock-style connector, to eliminate cable clutter. The computer part could be larger than a Mac Mini, and use desktop components instead of laptop components to keep costs down. We could see a $500 computer, a $600 20" monitor, available as a package for $1000.

It's possible we'll see an ultraportable notebook too, though I think that's less likely.

As for dot.mac, I'm hopeful that we'll get the PHP/SQL expert-level features that allow us to host real dynamic web sites. And maybe, along with that, we'll see a FileMaker-lite application that lets us create database-driven sites easily.
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