What You Need to Know: CES + MacWorld
If you haven’t stopped by TechMeme today, let me be the first to fill you in. Bill Gates had a great keynote at CES yesterday where Microsoft unveiled their Windows Home Server. It’s a simple device meant for storing media and just about any type of content you have on your Windows-networked PCs and devices. The server platform supports multiple drives and spans data across them.
The bundled server software can create automated backups and images while monitoring PC health. Windows Live account holders will benefit from added connectivity to their Windows Home Server. The first company to distribute their version of the Windows Home Server will be HP with other companies not too far behind. The price point is aimed at $500 or under for Windows Home Server devices.
There’s an interesting conversation with Bill Gates and some prominent bloggers over at CrunchGear. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 received IPTV capability.
Yahoo! rolled out a powerful mobile app that adds flickr, maps, email, finance integration and more to your mobile device of choice.
MacWorld starts up tomorrow in San Francisco with Stevie J’s highly anticipated keynote. There are many rumors in the blogosphere - an Apple phone of sorts, new displays with integrated iSights, the release of iLife ‘07 and iWork ‘07, an 8-core Mac Pro and the iTV. Many of these rumors won’t come to fruition tomorrow but personally I’d like to see the new software and their phone. As always, I’m awaiting Leopard but that won’t be coming out for at least a few more months. What would you like to see from MacWorld, or what did you enjoy the most at CES 2007?
Not sure about the rest of it, but I’m sure looking forward to Leopard and hoping at some point we might see a Core 2 Mini. Whilst plenty sources say it isn’t going to happen, they said the same about the MacBook. When Leopard comes out I’ll be investing in my first mac. (If you don’t count my LC2!)
Hmmm, I have a feeling that the biggest news will be the retirement Steve Jobs himself.
I would love to see a mobile device. Leopard is next on my list.
yea i seriously doubt Apple will come out with a 8-core desktop.
@Alex - people are already doing it. You just need 2 of the latest quad-core Intel Cloverton-based chips. It’s a direct socket drop-in. The question is if Apple is ready to offer that.
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2832&p=6
I would love to see a mobile device as well. If it happens, I could see it being totally different than the standard smart phones and pda’s that are currently on the market.
And if they release one, I’m buying, no questions asked! :)
C2D mac mini for sure! Of course I’ll invest on it AFTER Leopard comes out. It’s kinda heavy to buy a family pack license for my macbook and mac mini
What I am waiting for is Apple to release a decent multi-GPU setup similar to AMD/ATi’s Crossfire and Nvidia’s SLI. I know a lot of people don’t game on Mac’s but it sure would be a breath of fresh air over the 7600GT SLI combo you can get with the Mac Pro. Dual 8800GTXs anyone?
Hey there.
You got an awesome blog. Was just reading those tutorials you’ve put up on K2. They’re really good. I just wanted to know, why have you uninstalled K2 on your blog….any specific reason?
Thanks, Arjun
I can’t wait to hear what is coming out of Apple’s Labs at MacWorld Expo.
Paul- I know it can be done but I don’t believe Apple will do it. It has more to do with economics than whether it can be done or not.
8 core computers would be a stupid move. It’s way too early for that kind of parallelism. Software companies are still trying to catch up with dual-core on the Apple platform, much less optimize their code for it.