My 1st Prediction for MacWorld 2009

Apple will introduce a new Mac Mini with a new form factor.
1. They will drop the optical drive.
2. It will be able the size of an iPod Touch, just a bit thicker.
3. It will use a display port for the video interface.
4. It will have an interface port on the bottom.
5. Additional components can be mated to this port.
6. For instance, an optical drive could be added and the new Mac Mini will dock to it with the optical drive underneath it.
7. Apple will introduce a Blu Ray optical drive accessory.
8. The new Mac Mini with 250 GB drive and 2 GB of RAM will sell for $399.
9. It will come in Nano colors.
10. It will have 1 USB port, Bluetooth and will suport 802.11n WiFi.

Mac Idea

Actually this ID could be for any PC, but it would be really neat if it appeared on the Mac first.

I wish Apple would build a computer that has an 8/16/32 GB SSD reserved for the O/S and applications. Then the regular hard drive could be reserved for data. The cool thing about this is that it would be very easy to pop out the hard drive and setup another without having to reconfigure the O/S and applications.

Even cooler would be to have a copy of the O/S and applications kept hidden from everyday operations that could be used to restore from if the O/S or applications were ever corrupted. For that matter, the backup could just contain installers rather having installed applications.

What do you think? Should we lobby Apple to move in this direction?? If you agree with my idea, spread the word and ask Apple to do it. Maybe if enough of us do it, it will happen.

Another idea is that all the data could be kept in the cloud, then it would always be available and backed up. If your suspcious that the cloud may not be accessible, then the cloud could just be a copy. Your data hard drive would just need to synchronize whenever the cloud was available.

I'm an IT Manager/Developer and my platform of choice is Mac OS X. I'm using an iMac G4 with a 17" widescreen. Widescreen is the way to go for any computer. At work, I use a Dell Optiplex. One of the cool things for me is that I can use a Remote Desktop Client to connect from my Mac through a VPN connection to my company's WAN and use my deskstop PC at work.

My Mac is the coolest computer I have ever used. It may not be the fastest, but it can do so many things that other computers can't. I'm really looking forward to next year with the Mactel computers start rolling out.

My friend Keith sent me this link: Open Source Software for Mac OS X