Dive into OS X

During Apple’s Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts, Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer (CFO) and Tim Cooke (COO) both mentioned a “product transition”.

Someone tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September or October time frame. It will run the full Mac OS X and have a slot loading SuperDrive, an “iPhone-type” GPS chip and an Intel Core Duo processor.

The Apple iTablet PC rumor has been around for a long time. Lots of people think they would love a big iPhone type device to surf the web. They have to wait some little time!

This gallery of Apple’s computers features most of the major products from the last three decades, starting from 1976 through 2007.
Some data to remember:

• 1977 - Apple ][ - The first successful mass-market personal computer!
• 1984 - Macintosh - The original Mac!
• 1998 - iMac - We all loved it!
• 2001 - iPod - Set the tone for a new century of consumer electronics!
• 2007 - iPhone - Yes, you want one!

Beloved by budget funded Apple fans worldwide, the Mac Mini was very well received at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 11, 2005 and has maintained a loyal following ever since.

The Mac Mini is Apple’s most affordable and smallest desktop computer ever. It weighs only 2.9 pounds and sits just two-inches high. It is designed to attract owners of computers, iPods, older Macintosh models, and anyone interested in a low budget, easy-to-use personal computer.

But if you believe the latest rumours from AppleInsider, time has come for the Mac Mini: The arrival of Apple TV, a very similar next-generation product in many ways, rings the deathly bell. And a possible sign of this upcoming end is the fact that Apple has updated its desktops and notebooks with the very latest Santa Rosa-class of Core 2 Duo processors from Intel, and the Mac Mini is still trudging around with an old Core Duo chip inside.