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After digesting the iPad news from a day, I finally came to organize my ideas and post this small article about the device. At first I was a bit disappointed because of the similarities with the iPhone-iPod touch, my main concern is that a device like this would be better if it was marketed as a computer replacement or companion as opposed to marketed as a media device.

I really think that is an awesome media device, the ability of managing your media and your communication from a device like this one blows my mind. The addition of iWork for the iPad is just a killer move on Apple’s part, and because is open to developers to create incredible applications, this makes of the iPad the best media-communicator device in the world. Read the rest of this entry →

As I’m writing a post for my blog using Pages from iWork ‘08, I get frustrated with all the functions that it does not has. So much that I had to copy all the text that I had to MS Word and continued there, Pages is for me what Publisher was on the PC and nothing else. Yesterday, I downloaded a demo of iWork ‘08, I took all my MS Office for Mac shortcuts from my dock and told my wife that we needed to make an effort on using iWork to see if we would like it or not.

That meant no MS Excel, Word, or Power Point, as for Entourage, I never got the hang of it. A day after that decision I had to bring MS Word back on my dock, none of the functionalities that we use on Word were available on Pages. An example would be the spelling and grammar; the spelling features of Pages wont even tell me that English goes capitalized. It is very important for me this type of functions, as my first language is not English; in grammar I appreciate the help with run-on sentences among others. And the last feature that I enjoy from MS Word is finding synonyms of words, which help me sound less repeating.
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This afternoon I spend it reading and watching all the information that I could to bring you the best of the Apple event that took place in Cupertino, CA. While it was not confirmed, it was rumored that Steve Jobs was going to lead the presentation. He was there and with the excitement that only the Mac community can bring, everybody was happy to see him so energetic giving an exciting presentation to the audience.

I want to make sure you understand that I was not at the event, all the reading you are about to do is just from what I read around the web. The new iMac is everything anyone can dream in a computer, since the beginning I loved the new all-in-one form factor of the iMac, and this new model is not an exception. The action took place at 1:00 PM EST, new iMacs, iLife, iWork, while it was not mentioned during the keynote is fear to point that the MacMini also was updated.
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Everybody is talking about the same thing; the new MacBook Pro comes packed with power. Apple got the new “santarosa” chip inside, bumped the RAM to 2Gigs and this time they can handle up to 4Gigs of RAM. The L2 Cache size is bigger and the front size bus is faster (800 MHz). You get the LED technology on the 15-inch model and faster graphics cards across the board. The cool thing and the one I love about Apple is that all these come without price changes. If I had the money, I would run to get one today.

All these news leave us wondering what is Apple talking about next, they have updated the MacBook and MacBook Pro. They rev the Apple TV, and updated iTunes. The things that are left are iMac, Mac Mini, Software, iPods, monitors, and iSight. What do you think? Which of these products are going to be even mention next week? Take you guess, here is mine.

The iPhone is the winner; we all know that they are 99% likely to talk about new features, the mysterious SDK for developers, accessories, functions, a lot of bragging, etc. While there are just rumors floating around, I think they will unveil a new iMac. This last one may even not happen because this is not a consumer show, but if not now then when. As well we have the Mac Mini, I think is going to be mention. Whether is to take it out of the market, re-design it, or finally giving it some love, like new processors, more RAM, etc.

As for the iPod, I really doubt they do or mention anything but there is a slight possibility that they surprise us. No rumors about that, but what have had rumors is monitors with iSight. I don’t really care about integrating iSight with Apple displays but LED displays would be good news for everyone. Are we done with the hardware? Well, for some reason I have the impression that they could give us one more thing, hardware related. And I base my though on patents already released to the public couple months ego about a touch sensitive device like the iPhone only that it was smaller.

Software base, I think they will talk about Leopard. However, I don’t think is going to be about new features. I think features are to wait for a later date, but release dates, along with SDK updates will be focus of attention. As for iLife and iWork, I have give up hope, I wonder about Final Cut Express though. These are all consumer products and in my mind, they should not take time of the developer’s features, but things have change and you never know.

Come on, be brave, and post your prediction on this post. Share with the world what your thoughts are, and be part of the community. Email me at lumencreativegroup (at) gmail.com for questions or more information. Thanks.