The Keynote is at 9am PST on Tuesday, January 9th, in SanFrancisco… this is an hour earlier than normal…

Ok, here are the rumors thus far:

Rumor 1: An Apple iPhone

Specifications 1: Kevin Rose
- January launch date on all carriers
- Extremely small form factor
- Two batteries
- Two Models: 4GB for $249, 8GB for $449
- Slide-out keyboard.
- Possibly touchscreen

Specifications 2:
- Two Models: 4Gb for $599, 8GB for $649
- Wider than the iPod nano, yet thinner than the iPod Video
- Made of Metal
- Muliple Colors, but at least black, white, silver
- Claims Cingular is likely US carrier.
- Virtual Clickwheel
- Full screen LCD (3.5 inch)

Specifications 3:
- 3-megapixel Camera.
- 2.2 inch display
- Complete iTunes/iPod integration.
- Strictly GSM/EDGE
- Apple asking carriers to not subsidize the price of the phone

Rumor 2: True video iPod
There are too many to list…. however here’s the basics
- Full Screen
- Touch Screen, on screen scroll wheel
- Larger Capacticy? I don’t see why not, with the increase of storage capacities…
100GB would be my guess is that it would have this one…

Rumor 3: Increase in .MAC storage
There’s a video floating out there, here. I’m not sure if this is true or not… we’ll see…

Rumor 4: Mac Pro Upgrade
Possible update of the MacPros to include the Intel Quad Core processors… meaning 8 cores for processing with the MacPro.

Rumor 5: Mac Mini upgrade
– Possible upgrade to the Core 2 Duo, versus the Core Duo it currently has

Rumor 6: Blu-Ray addition
- Possibility of adding Blu-ray support to the Mac Lineup

Rumor 7: New iSight Camera
- Apple stopped selling the iSight camera, and the only way to get it is in the laptops… so a new one?

Rumor 8: New Displays
- Possible refresh of the displays, including 32″ display or possibly 37″ display.
- Rumored 50″ display.

Rumor 9: Thin 12″ MacBook Pro
- There used to be a 12″ powerbook model, but that was dropped, so could they be replacing it with a 12″ macbook pro?

Rumor 10: Mac Tablet
- Least likely, since Steve Jobs doens’t like the idea of a Tablet

Releases we’ll most likely see:
iLife ’07
iWork ’07
- Which might include a spreadsheet application

More Information released
iTV (name will be changed) But this is Apple’s Wireless streaming devices…
- Small Hard drive for cache
- HDMI connector
- RCA audio
- Component Output
- 802.11n Wireless
- No power brick, internal power
- USB 2.0
- Ethernet
- Digital Audio output
- Works with the Apple Remote
- Front Row-like interface
- Works with iTunes PC and Mac
- $299

Next version of their operating system OS X: Leopard
- Includes TimeMachine, a new feature that allows automatic backup of files.

I’ve posted this week Stories of the Week for January 7th, 2007. Check them out here

So I went out and bought the HD-DVD xbox 360 Drive, the drivers work, so that means that I can read the HD-DVD Discs… I wanted to purchase the Intervideo WinDVD Software, but they’re having issues, luckily their free-trial will allow me to do use the HD-DVD Player while I wait for them to return on the 4th….. so I’ll let you guys know how it looks on my computer.