Comments on: Is Apple readying a wireless announcement? Maybe not

The day before Macworld is set to begin, rumors are flying that Apple will make a big wireless announcement.

[Ed Hoarse]

It's Job's early morning Burrito

Hopefully it's not an wireless AppleTV box, and Asus already came out with the EEEpc for ultra portable, diskless, quick start up. Let me guess another glossy fully not functional overpriced product with lots of bugs. Yes I own an ipod but I also have a Zune for better sound quality.

[Lee in San Diego]

What is an Asus?

Your post is the first time I ever heard of them or their EEEpc, I had
to Google them to find out more.

So for what are you using your iPod if you prefer the sound out of
the Zune?

[GGGlen]

Interesting

The EEEpc can't run a single piece of software that I own, while my
17' Glossy MacBook Pro (I no longer use the matte screened one,
can't stand the display) runs virtually every software title on the
planet.

Also, and based on your comment, I visited Dell.com, where I found
out that a similarly spec'd laptop was WAY MORE EXPENSIVE than my
MacBook, even though it was thicker AND heavier AND ran FAR less
software.

The bit about being "not functional" is especially amusing, as every
single component in my laptop is indeed "fully functional", and gets
used nearly every day.

Lastly, you can't find a review on the planet that thinks Microsoft's
proprietary audio CODEC sounds better than the open and royalty
free MP4 format (also known as AAC), so you might consider just
swapping out the iPod's included earbuds for a decent set of
earpieces.

So... tell me again why I should take anything you've written seriously?

You seem to believe that laptops that run less software, yet cost more
when configured identically are better... so maybe you've just had a
bad day at work?

Anywayzzzz...

:-)

[Riquez-001]

MacBook Air

WiMax alone isnt anywhere near exciting enough to be the
subject of the banner "Something in the Air"
Last year Macworld announced the iPhone, so this year
announcing a new type of wifi is pretty boring in comparison.
Macworld has the reputation of announcing some fairly big &
exciting products & since the 8-core Mac Pro was sneaked in
quietly last week I'm willing to wager it has to be a lot more
impressive than that ...& that's quite impressive.

My bet is on MacBook Air being the main announcement,
however I don't believe that "light as air" is the reason for the
name - it may incorporate wimax, or some other funky wireless
tech. Since its likely that this ultra portable will be sans optical
drive, I like to see some clever wireless or online way of
compensating.

Just guessing here, as everyone else is, but I think 3G for the
iPhone might be on its way. Apple have said that the iPhone will
come to Japan in spring? 2008 & so the iPhone HAS to be 3G for
that - this could be it, "Something in the Air" being a 3G iPhone
and pushing the movie/TV downloads angle.

[MrStuckless]

Must be P2P wireless

I think they may have worked out their wirless systems (for iPhone, iTouch, MacBook etc) to transmit and receive wifi from each other (like bluetooth but larger range and larger ammounts of data transfer). This could be quite useful.