no there wont be any surprises.
the only surprise will be the lack of top secret features ;)

why no choice of mac pro?

Well I would like to see an iTablet.
But...
I have noticed only macbook and iMac's with leopard on the display on the apple website... So I forecast a all new replacement for macbook pro line.

rooooaaaaRRGGHHH!!! grooOWWWLL!!!

The Leopard men were a West African secret society who practised cannibalism.

No one seriously believes that Leopard will come out on PC right?!

I think a macbook revision is the most likely. but that isn't there, so the funny vote is the last one.

So I add mine to the pointless hordes.

I truly hope there is some kind of new macbook announcement/revision (is this what you mean by a slimbook, a slimmer macbook or do you mean a subnotebook) I'll take either one! I JUST NEED A NEW COMPUTER! PLEASE APPLE! SOON! And 9to5, PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR SOURCES ARE SAYING! PLEASE!

A new Macpro!

How about none of the above? You guys out of stuff to complain about right now?

How about new processors for the Mac Pro? Doesn't that count as a surprise?

If at all, then they will announce a slimbook. And if 9to5mac asks a question like this, it might even be true...

Ok you guys seriously should stop abusing the caps lock key!

it makes sense for there to be a Macbook replacement at this time -- it'll be lower cost than a Macbook Pro or a Mac Pro; and therefore better for the marketing guys to push in the Holiday sales season (I would have picked the iMac for a co-release, but of course, the iMac's already out now...)

That, and the Macbook Pro seems most likely due an upgrade for Macworld; and the Macbook might struggle to get enough hype if it comes out at the same time as a new MBP, or shortly thereafter.

I don't think we'll see Leopard on PC anytime soon, not without hacking.

Which is what I was thinking of doing with my wife's Dell, just to see how it works. She won't mind!

You should have had another category for none of the above.

Seems Caps Lock is broken? Perhaps someone you know can teach you guys have to type correctly.


As the quality of 9to5 drops lower and lower...

The question leads the readers to believe that some sort of surprise will be released with Leopard's arrival.

If so, when will Apple make this announcement?

how about none of the above?

I want a SlimBook Pro :D

I like how it's asking IF there will be a surprise, and don't give the option that there won't be one :P

How about a "none" option?

you need to reset the polls to when the extra options were added... it's not exactly representative of popular opinion if you don't

I was just thinking, but couldn't the new slimbook have to internal harddrives, one which you use for your every day use, and one that is a lot less expensive, runs at a much lower RPM ect, for use as your backup disk for time machine? This to my knowlage would be the first laptop which auto backs itself up without user imput at all!

I don't think Mac OS X is ready for a port to touch screen, I mean how would you use hot corners on a touch screen?

I really want MSN support in iChat, you Americans might not believe this but MSN is quite widely used in the UK (I don't know about the rest of Europe).

I think that now that Apple has a few game developers on its side it should start to make a gamers Mac, with a high powered Graphics card and all the rest but above all make it easy to change components like in the Mac Pro.