Roberto Mateu

With Apple’s WWDC conference starting next monday, the rumors are all over the place. Here are my predictions on what is going to go down according to my uniformed and unreliable imagination:

• iPhone 3G: Without a doubt the new iPhone is going to be announced and very likely be made available. The new features:

  • 3G Wireless
  • GPS
  • Front camera for video chat.
  • Double the flash for the same price points.

• New and renamed .Mac: consensus seems to be around me.com. A lot of things should be new in .Mac. Probably many will be related to calendar and address book syncing with the iPhone. Hopefully a push email option will also be available.

• MacBook Pro: Probably will be announced but available in July. Features:

  • New square keyboard similar to the regular MacBook and the Air.
  • Faster processor based on the Montevina platform.

• Snow Leopard: To be released in January 2009, this version is rumored to be focused on “stability and security”

• MacBook Air with 3G: Completely going out of the limb here, but I think it’s possible (yet improbable) that we will see a MBA with 3G wireless like the iPhone. The new version will have a bit more RAM and hard drive and cost $1899. The current version will get a price drop to $1699.

Of course, the aluminum MacBook is missing in these predictions mainly because I’ve been wrong about its imminent launch for a whole friggin year. So in a way, I want to be wrong again so I can buy it before I leave to Oslo. Sadly, I think that Apple is going to push the new MacBook Pro’s initially and then announce the MacBooks close to August.

In any case, as Garcia Marquez once wrote:

He who awaits much can expect little.

Which basically means no new MacBook for me!