Between the iPad, the iPhone 4 and iOS 4, this has certainly been the year for Apple’s mobile offerings. Though we had the requisite upgrades to the MacBook, iMac, and Mac Pro lines, along with a pretty significant revamp of the Mac mini, the Macintosh platform has taken a back seat this year to its touch-based cousin.
This event, though, is supposedly going to change that; apparently, Apple wants to talk about “what’s new for the Mac.” While the possibility of new hardware exists, the lion photo seems to suggest we’ll be getting a peek at OSX 10.7, which—keeping in with the tradition of naming OS X versions after big cats—could very well be code-named “Lion.”
Other than that, details are kind of scarce. What else does Apple have up its sleeve? We’ll have to find out on the 20th.
I just want iLife 2010 and iWork 2010, they still haven’t came out with it.
My guess is small revision to the OS but lots of new features/functionality for iLife & iWork. I’m still waiting for Apple Core (home media server strategy).
Let’s hope, if it is OS7, that it doesn’t contain any of the iOS rules about buying Apps and is less buggy than the first edition of OS7
Snow Leopard is pretty solid. I can’t imagine what direction they will go with Lion.