I personally think that 23 feb 06 will be either intel pro apps demo, Mac mini for sure, I don't think a new ipod, we just got 2 new ones, nano and video. Maybe a wireless phone that give GPRS via bluetooth to the MBP completing a solution. Remember Apple is a turnkey solution company. There are integrating technology and solutions. EG iLife ipods fits together so do the pro apps.
May be an new intelBook this for sure, the iBook is also very outdated.
But the PowerMac i do see in summer to fall, and xserve in October.
Switching to intel is a slippery slope. Once people switch they want to go all the way. I will not buy another PPC, just because in the future and I do not know how long incompatiblity will surface because technology will move on. Rossetta is a temp solution to move to intel, there is not backwards compatible. High end apps will be adapted to the new intels, if not the next version of software(like adobe) but the release after. I know I don't see the bennifit in supporting big binaries when all the products being sold over the last years are intel(future looking back).
So by my deduction this intel all buy end of year. I also see intel in ipod and if there is a apple phone that too.
Remember when the announce intel, Steve job said, anwsering where intel that intel had products that fitted with apples future products, and he was not just talking computers. I seen 486 in cell phones, the first smart phones where 486 chips, low power, with memory and devices on chip. In 1995 intel had the 486 in the quater of the space they used to. so for the company I worked for, they packaged mem and devices needed into the rest of the chip. I worked by the way on this companies prototype Smart phones / data services.
