The Macworld 2009 and the 25th anniversary of Macintosh
Missing less than a month to the next Macworld. What this practically coincide with the birthday of the Macintosh 25mo. What surprises will stay in Cupertino preparing to celebrate their most important product?
The twenty-fifth birthday of the Macintosh is anticipated to be good news: for the first time in the last decade, the market share of Windows has fallen below 90%. It is not the merits of Linux. But what will happen in January during Macworld, when Steve Jobs will be found through the hands the opportunity to celebrate the first quarter of a century of the Mac?
Network began to circulate the first hypothesis. The birthday (which technically falls on January 24, the day of the historic presentation of the original Macintosh) also brings with it the memory of previous celebrations. The first and most recent is that of 20 years with the Apple model eponymous “20th Anniversary” in 1996. Extraordinary Machine is for technology solutions (the touchpad on the keyboard is something that fans of portable still want regarding computer fixed), has a design of respectable again today, thanks to one of the first years of pencil Jonathan Ive .
Another celebration, this time Apple itself has been played by more “intangible” with the amendments to spot “1984″: the Pitcher of the weight is thanks to computer graphics with a Pixar waist and iPod in the white cap ears. A tribute to the success of 2004 that was exploding a planetary level of the digital player.
Today we are in an dell’iPhone more than anything but aluminum monocoque, the touch and wireless devices of “post-PC” and the brute power of the new Snow Leopard. What could make Steve Jobs on stage?
Some have even suggested launching a version in aluminum and design of the good old Mac Classic and original. Intel forms the heart and eighties to see the light to a new compattissimo, screen and received power from Mac mini or more. A new found that could exceed the needs of celebration and turned into an extraordinary deal for all those who want to celebrate a classic design and not down yet. Think of the Mini from BMW or Fiat Cinquecento: revisiting the classic characteristics of enriching it with modern but keeping it well differentiated from the modern (after all, the iMac is the modern interpretation of classic Mac).
Or, Apple may have worked hard to create a “Mac touch” to celebrate the anniversary with innovative and go hunting for that market NETBOOK tablet PC and so far elusive. Perhaps with more software coming from the iPhone world that not one of the classic Mac OS X. It could be the second response, the most flexible and attentive to the needs of the moment.
Finally, the third case, Apple could have prepared an “ultra” of the Mac Pro, with the best multicore processors in circulation (eight hearts minimum), quad video card, tons of memory and disk 1 Terabyte as server memory state solid. It would be the final car, with innovations in design, the cooling system (a liquid), in the technologies used and the ability to exploit fully the news of Snow Leopard, as the new standard Open Cl for the exploitation of computing power graphics card. Costly, would be the Ferrari or Lamborghini of personal computers.
Whatever the actual development of what is prepared to Cupertino (maybe just a celebration with the revisiting of old video of Steve Jobs with long hair who presented his “godson” talking Macintosh), this Macworld is not expected that there will already be starting as everyone else.
