Macworld 2008: Pre-Show Link Orgy
This years Macworld event running January 14th-18th in San Francisco is easily the most popular and widely discussed Macworld event ever. With over 400 exhibitors, tons of buzz about potential hardware releases, and lots of BOOM from the Steve, we will all surely be encompassed by the reality distortion field well before the week ends.
The blogosphere has been super busy the last few weeks with rumors, red herrings, and buzz on what to expect at this years Macworld. Here is a list of my favorites.
- AppleInsider is one of the first to post a series of photos of San Francisco’s Moscone Center as it gets jazzed up for Macworld. The tagline ‘There's something in the air’ has pretty much confirmed rumors of a lighter than air new subnotebook. With WiMax support? Or is it something to do with wireless purchases or iTunes? Or neither!
- You aren’t a Macworld rumor monger without a 2008 Keynote Bingo card from Arstechnica.
- TUAW posted a killer nostalgic list of Macworld’s past with a link to the corresponding YouTube video for each item. Very cool. Also if you missed it check out the staff at TUAW’s list of predictions which is really very complete.
- Gizmodo posted arguably the most detailed and thorough article detailing what to expect at this years Macworld.
- Party animals should scan the Hess Macworld 2008 events list for every possible party and meetup you could ever want to attend. Tequila!
- GeekCulture has a cool celebrity checklist for those lucky enough to attend the event.
- In case you didn’t know, Steve Job’s keynote address will occur on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008 at 9:00 AM PST in Moscone West at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. I have heard a couple claims of people attempting to stream this live, but I think it’s safe to write this off as BS (no link for you!) Expect the keynote to be available on here Apple’s site shortly after it occurs – immediately after which it should appear everywhere else including torrent sites.
- AppleGazette has a list of sites providing live blogging of the event and keynote.
- You might also want to keep an eye on Flickr, as photos are already beginning to surface there.
That’s about it. Also be sure to subscribe to MacApper’s podcast as I am certain some of the writers here are cooking up a roundtable style podcast within the next 48 hours or so. In the mean time what do you guys expect to happen at this years Macworld? Subenotebook? iTunes movie rentals? iPhone v2? None of the above? Let us know in the comments.
[quote]I have heard a couple claims of people attempting to stream this live, but I think it's safe to write this off as BS (no link for you!) Expect the keynote to be available on here Apple's site shortly after it occurs – immediately after which it should appear everywhere else including torrent sites.[/quote]
There’s always someone who is writing down what is being announced as it happens and posting pictures along the way. I don’t have a link either but just search for “Macworld 2008 keynote live” on Tuesday and there should be plenty of links. Some are better than others so check around and you’re sure to find one that keeps up with the keynote pretty well.
Oops. I guess I should have finished reading the rest of the post since it already pointed you to all the live blogging sites. Thanks Miles!
Thanks Christi. Yeah I came across these guys claiming to actually be streaming the keynote live, but as many people have pointed out, that’s pretty much impossible.
Some pretty crufty (read bad) logic surrounding this Air business. The Google cache, easily, could be coincidental, and should be assumed as such. There Could be a MacBook Air; MacBook Air could be a WiMax card or similar; or the Air reference could be unrelated to MacBooks at all. All of these are euqally plausible and supported by logic. The “Pretty much confirmed” bit strikes me as… uninformed.
@Brian: Well the Google cache reference to MacBook Air you’re referring to was posted after I wrote and submitted this article, so you will have to forgive my lack of time travel abilities. Anyways you’re right though that the reference pretty much clinches it for the new notebook. I’m obviously not the only one who thinks a new notebook will be announced. I guess we’ll all see very soon what ‘in the air’ is referring to, but a new flash memory enabled subnotebook is looking like a safe bet to me.
I don’t disagree there will likely be a sub-notebook introduced; I’m just not convinced that the “air” reference has anything to do with it, google cache or no. My reference to “Pretty much confirmed” was concerning the fact that we really have a lot of circumstantial information from dubious sources, and very little solid information, so at best all I can muster to give reasonably is “strong guess.”
Apple’s done very well, for all the leaks, to keep detailed info out of the rumor mill.