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Prognostication is fun.

How hard is it to predict a stripped down iPhone? It's certainly not an "if" type of speculation.

Or new MacBook Pros? Hmmm.

We need some meat, some "lose-your-job" disclosure with all the litigious trimmings.

Yeah ... like an analyst has any idea what's in the keynote! Well ... it may be mostly true. I hardly expected the hour-and-a-half iPhone keynote - with hardly a mention of Macs. But ... this will be showing up in a month and won't be mentioned?

DLMeyer - the Voice of G.L.Horton's Stage Page Pod-Cast

I took a stroll into a Apple store to consider a laptop for my road trip this summer.

I thought a MacBook would be nice and then I saw the horrible cheap looking glossy screens.

My eyes began to hurt immediatly from the reflection of the overhead lights seen on the screen, I couldn't see the screen well because of the reflection.

I cruised over to the MacBook Pro's and was welcomed with a nice matte screen. Unfortunatly I hear of battery swelling with these machines and heat issues.

I hope Apple addresses both issues, because I would like a nice cool MacBook with matte screen, not glossy.

Is there gonna be a live feed on this event?

@ Almost Not a Mac User Anymore

Agreed. I own a MacBook and I can't stand this screen. Sure it's coll and all under the right lighting conditions but when the light is not great (go figure, being somewhere with bad lights using a MOBILE computer) it's BAD. Should have a matte option for the MacBook as well.

Glossy is only good for indoors.

@almost not...

course, if you actually WERE a mac user, you'd have spell check in your browser.

as one of many self impressed idea bloated opinionaters I have nothing signifcant to add except more hot air and wasted electrons in the pursuit of self agrandizement. Long live blogs, the internet, useless contributions, and useless contributers... cheers to one and all...

much ado-

That was pretty funny, thanks.

But I feel so insignificant now...

APPLE BRING BACK MATTE SCREENS!!!

You know I looked at other hardware sites, there is wealth of options on the PC side.

There is a quad core portable tower that is the size of a small briefcase, it even comes with handles. It can hold four hard drives and plenty of ram, has more than enough ports.

Then there are SantaRose and even Quad core laptops.

The hardware choices are plentiful. I feel entrapted by Mac OS X now, because it will only run on Apple's rather limited hardware.

Vista totally sucks, that I know, but I got to have my Matte screen affordable laptop!

Please Apple, I don't want to leave, but if you can't pay attention to millions of your customers needs with your "one size fit's all" type product line, then I'll have to leave.

Respectfully yours, Almost Gone.

@ Almost Not a Mac User Anymore
You really haven't looked at the MBP close enough if you claim that MBP has a better screen. MBP 17", maybe, but 15" with it's matte and glossy "sparkly" screen is terrible. I know, because I've just returned one and bought MB. MB has a much better screen in terms of silky smooth colors. Also if you play a little bit with MB (not just glimpse at it in the store as you did) you will find, that it is easy to adjust the MB screen indoors so that you don't get any reflections. It becomes a second nature after a while. MBP is you play with it will make your eyes burn. It has a 3D look to it and it's all sparkly and grainy.

Wow, so they won't be spending time on a consumer product at a developer's conference? I'm flabbergasted!

We went through this bullcrap last year, with people whining about no new iPod being introduced at the WWDC.

People, please get it through your heads: This is a developer's conference. It is for developers. Not consumers. The focus will be on products of interest to developers, like new high-end Macs and software.

that it is easy to adjust the MB screen indoors so that you don't get any reflections.

Now how is one supposed to do that? I can't adjust the sun or office/library/wifi spot lighting to eliminate the glare off of a manufactured glossy screen.

You see scientists found out what causes eyestrain in CRT's. It's because the glass causes a slight reflection and your eyes are constantly adjusting between the two images.

When matte LCD's came out, my eyes felt 1000% better and I could stay online for hours without any headaches.

But as soon as I took a few minutes looking at the MB glossy screen, my eyes were tired and I caught myself rubbing them much like when I had a CRT. Sure enough I had a headache in a few minutes and needed to go lie down.

You know, computers are tools and some of us need to work with them. Not be having them all flashy and drool worthy to the point that it's a hazzard to our health.

I hope Apple reconsiders their mistake, because according to polls, people who have used computers for a long time like matte screens better.

I can see glossy having a appeal to the younger crowd who hasn't exerpienced eye strain daily.

31,000 votes can't be wrong.

http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=527

Apple needs to bring back matte screens.

No doubt.

I find it hard to believe that Apple is going to release a 6GB wide screen iPod. If they're going to release a wide screen iPod it will be at least a 30 or 40GB device. There's absolutely no way Apple's going to remove the cellular technology from an iPhone and then just sell it. Give me a break.

I thought a MacBook would be nice and then I saw the horrible cheap looking glossy screens.
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Glossy screens aren't cheap you putz. They look fantastic. You'd prefer a circa 1998 LCD which fades when you adjust the angle??

Glossy is great for a media center laptop (widescreen)

C'mon, Leopard won't be ready till winter 2007 so what's the point of discussing Apple's latest version of vaporware? Steve Jobs gonna stoke the crowd's imagination with more hints of "top secret" Leopard features? Zzzzz.

iPods and MacBook Pros galore. Whoopee (insert sarcasm). I don't need or want a notebook and a 8 gig nano is sufficient for me. What else ya got, Apple? Oh, I almost forgot AppleTV. I don't have a TV. Yawn.

I beginning to feel that Apple has abandoned desktop users except the uber rich MacPro customers. Mac mini can't support dual monitors and is woefully slow. iMacs, meh. Looks like another year of the same-old-same-old for me.

More smoke and mirrors at WWDC. I guess I'll have to wait for Intel's 45-nm processors before anything really exciting to come from Apple. Wake me up in 2008.

Almost Gone - Go, and see your eye Doctor on the way!

Astroturfers piss me off.

Negative BS about Apple and their products will not work on the readers of this site. Peddle your BS elsewhere and get more bang for Microsoft's buck.

Apple is leveraging it's iPhone buzz into OS X. I love it.

One more vote from me to ditch the glossy screens, even though that's not what this article is about.

I don't have a TV.

That's the part where I knew you were a nut job.

"Wow, so they won't be spending time on a consumer product at a developer's conference? I'm flabbergasted!"

Well...they will spend time on a consumer product at a developer's conference, if developers can actually develop stuff for it!

The original iMac was introduced at WWDC. But that was of interest to developers because they could develop software to run on it.

But with no third-party developer support for iPhone, why would developers be interested?

@ Almost Gone & Almost Not a Mac User....

Don't let the door hit your Dumb A**** on the way out.

31,000 votes? How 'bout the millions of Mac OWNERS that swear by their laptops? I own both models, and the screens are *just fine*. Go troll some Windows site.

the iPhone without a phone is not enough to make a good iPod, it needs more storage.

I have an aluminum Powerbook, and I wish the screen were glossy, but I'm stuck with a dull, matte screen. oh well...to each his own.

@Mr. Peabody and Martin

Read the headline again about the iPod. It's 6G as in 6th generation not 6Gb as in gigs.

There's no mention of what storage size this guy, who is basically paid to guess, thinks the iPod will be.

Tues. 5/29, the replacement for the MacMini - only the name is gone, not the product. WWDC - new Macbook Pros & iMacs. iPhone - end of June. Video iPod ala dumbed dwon iPhone - August. New Apple TV and iTunes 720 movies in the Fall.

Im happy about this as im waiting to switch to a mac being a whole time windows user, and am lookingforward to the macbook pro but havent made a move on one yet as was waiting for it to be refreshed

WWDC is for developers!

Man, those glossy screens are the pits! Have you ever tried working on one for an extended period of time in real-world lighting? BAD bad bad!

I've heard that glossy screens look fab in you mom's basement.

Apple DOES have matte screened laptops... MacBook Pro! The only way to go!

I'm using a horrible XP box at the in-laws place in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hardly anyone uses Macs here... poor bastards! Good thing I've got my PowerBook nearby!

this is the worst mac site EVER

extended periods of time, in real world lighting?

yea everyday no problem.

This 'anal'-yst, Gene Munster, shows his complete ignorance by talking about all this stuff being introduced on June 14th.

That's three days after the keynote, which is on the June 11th.

So much for him being in the know!

Give Munster a break, Toby, even Steve Jobs had Leopard's release off by about six months.

this is the BEST mac site EVER

..."according to PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster"

Holy crap! It's Herman Munster's brother!

Until Apple releases the means for developers to write programs for the iPhone, there's no need to talk about the iPhone at WWDC. Those folks could care less about iPhone -- they're busy making The Next Big Thing for the Mac, which means they need Leopard.

And fall makes sense for a new iPod -- just in time for the holiday shopping season.

but its autumn now????

LordRobin

Wow, so they won't be spending time on a consumer product at a developer's conference? I'm flabbergasted!

Good Job, Lord Robin. I was going to say the same thing but figured I'd better check the comments first.

Somehow, I don't think developers are like pure mathematicians who spend countless hours delving into multiple dimensions, chaos theory, and information theory. Those developers showing up at WWDC are probably more like applied mathematicians - seeking a buck for designing new software and devices for consumers.