Jason D. O’Grady has put together a list at ZDNet, Top 10 Things Apple Could Announce at Macworld. Unlike other such lists floating around, he predicts odds and gives the reasons behind those odds. He has an Intel-powered PowerBook at 50-1, but an Intel-powered Mac mini and an Intel-powered widescreen iBook are listed at even money.
Akihabara News has released details and pictures of a new drive enclosure that is tailor-made for ultraportable users. IO-DATA has a new USB 2.0 harddrive enclosure for 1.8-inch harddrives (20GB – 60 GB capacities). This thing has to be seen to be beleived. More information at IO-DATA’s website (Japanese).
According to TG Daily, Alienware is opening their first retail store in a few days. The store is located in Dadeland Mall (Miami, FL). Several prices will be given away.
You can read more about it, as well as get directions, at Alienware’s retail website.
Akihabara News had the scoop on the new ultraportable from NEC, the NEC VersaPro UltraLite. the VersaPro UltraLite (model #’s VY12F/CH-W and VJ12F/CH-W) is powered by a 1.2GHZ Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Pentium M, come with a 12-inch XGA display, and has up to a 7-hour battery life (with 9 hours possible, possibly through an optional battery).
NEC has announced the NEC PC Parafield, currently only available in Japan. It’s a 12.1-inch ultraportable with a Pentium M 1.73GHz processor, and most importantly – no Hard Drive – it stores the Operating System (OS) and applications in 3GB of flash ROM, and has an additional 512MB of RAM for system/application memory. As far as we know, there are no others with this kind of setup, currently available.