HD support has been just around the corner since beta version of Leopard 10.5 had it....

Toast and ArchiveMac already support writing to Bluray on Leopard. Whats supposed to be added as new? I assume just playing bluray movies.

When was the last Mac Pro rev? Seems like they could have faster processors there.

I'd love to see iWork update as soon as possible. Keynote is amazing piece of software beating PowerPoint and others to the ground. However Pages and Number need some essential features to be used for example for writing technical documentation. I like the simplicity of user interface and many concepts of both Numbers and Pages leading to perfect looking results with almost no effort. However can't use them because of lack features that should not be so hard to add - TOI, TOT, native captions support, bibliography, writing formulas in Pages. Numbers are very slow when working with large set of data and pivot table support is missing as are some functions.

It would be nice, not to say essential in some pars of the world, to see proper RTL languages support in iWork.
My wife, who needs to work with Hebrew all the time, could then stop using the antiquated Office and start using Pages. Until then, it's still Micr*soft hell for some of her work.

so we're looking at:
-new macbooks
-new iwork/ilife
-new imacs?
-apple hdtv?

I doubt mac mini will be revised, except if it were to merge with apple tv, and a nice 42 inch apple cinema display, for a decent price.

blu ray would be great but they should have optional full hd resolution for all macbooks 14 inch and above.

why don't they just have a 5 minute keynote saying "it's all online, go ahead and check it out", that would minimize the last minute wait for things. Plus, steve is just gonna jabber on about how amazing everything he invents is.

it would make sense to see a lot of upgrades though, as they already released the new ipods (keep this one more concise and more space for other products).

Looking forward, shame i'm not so high on cash though.

I am sure that like many out there, I am not the only one that belives (and hopes) that removable media, while fine for archiving if one does not want to trust Timemachine (I trust it), has past it's time. I can stream / download movies from iTunes or elsewhere, I can email or stored in the 'cloud' large files for sharing etc etc. So, a nice robust solid state 'laptop' about the size of the EEE PC 1000, but with a full size keyboard and the usual Apple innovations would be lovely. If I want a larger screen and/or Blue Ray, I can then dock this 'brick' with my desktop setup. The 13" form factor is too large - Apple need to lose the area around the bezel.

You ask about Rose sounding like a confident guy -- he wasn't. He told a crowd who asked what he had heard, what he heard, but he prefaces it by saying his source was a bad one. Then your second source is macsoda? They just make stuff up. Do you even remember them getting the invitation date wrong and later admiting it was total speculation? You should because you reported their gaff here.

I hope so...

IF they release an HDTV Apple made, then they better allow more countries to purchase movies and TV Shows. That is something I am looking forward to (I know it's not going to happen...).

iLife and iWork? Both would be great! I would purchase them right away, hoping iWeb has been improved in some aspects. On a side note. Some of my blog readers told me comments don't work. Whereas others don't have any probs..Maybe changing something somewhere for iLife 09? Hope so.

One thing I am also looking forward to is Aperture 3. This superbe piece of Software lacks integration with the rest of "Apple...

I bought iWork for the first time last year because Apple finally added a spreadsheet application - Numbers. However Numbers turned out to be nothing more than Pages with advanced tables. It's claimed excel compatibility was a joke - the first spreadsheet I tried had over 25,000 import errors mostly due to formating incompatibilities and unsupported functions. The lack of freeze panes was another major shortcoming. So I ended up having to buy Microsoft Office 2008 - they very thing I had been hoping to avoid. Well now I have MS Office - there is no way an IWorks upgrade would attract me - even if they addressed all the shortcomings.

Apple freakin' rules! Another great update to shake up the industry and set the bar even higher. Steve and his marketing genius at work. Now I gotta go get a new MacBook Pro so I can watch Blu-ray discs while I write some NASCAR and deer hunter apps for the iPhone....

If Apple adds blu Ray then they would have to get high resolution screens than the current generation for at least the MBP line so people can watch HD videos / DVDs on it with no re-scaling

Freezing panes! pah!

I have changed my whole office (financial institution) over to numbers and its a dream! so much easier and a pleasure to use, it isnt simply pages with more advanced tables it has some pretty nifty features that excel could never have.

There are over 80 people in my firm now using numbers instead of excel and they are not making simple lists etc they are performing advanced financial calculations.......and despite this, they look great!

@ leahk
I think you are being rather unfair to Apple on iWork. Even 10 minutes research on the web would have revealed that Numbers never claimed to match Excel. In time perhaps but certainly not on v1. iWork is not aimed at the MS Office prime market but rather at the rest of the world made up of SOHOs, smaller businesses and all others who wanted a reasonable feature set without the bloat. It would be naive to expect to import an Excel worksheet with functions not yet supported in Numbers.

Geez... I'm still using iLife 06. If 09 does come out tomorrow, I guess it's time to upgrade.

Figures. I just bought and installed iLife '08 yesterday.

I would really love to see an iWork and Ilife revision although I doubt it will happen, mostly for these reasons. iDVD could simply be updated if Blu-ray happen to come along and Apple has always kept the even year streak going so in a way I doubt the 09 release. The only main reason I want iLife 09 is because I hate iMovie 08, I want a cheap yet satisfying movie maker. There is my 2 cents on that.

Actually that is not correct. The only year that a new version of iLife has not been released is an iLife 2007. Before that, new versions were released every year at MacWorld in January. However, at iPhoneWorld... excuse me, I mean MacWorld 07, they showed Leopard and the first iPhone. They waited until August 2007 to release version 2008. To some people's way of thinking, it was like going back to version 1.0 all over again.

Ya I guess you are right... I just figured that they already have so many things in one event to mention, it would be too overwhelming to talk about software also.
But you are right they did release other versions that were odd numbered my mistake.