Fleeting Thoughts

It seems as the title says the stars are finally aligning and we are growing ever closer to the release of the New Mac laptops with the Intel chips inside, err, it seems Apple will be leaping ahead by leaps and bounds with the introduction of the “Yonah” chipset.

First with Macworld coming on January 9th, some significant announcement can almost be expected. Second with Intel set to announce the new “Yonah” chipset on the 6th of January, one could be forgiven for jumping to conclusions. But one big question was about the Intel branding and with Intel’s announcement that they are finally dropping the “Intel Inside” branding and creating a new one (Intel Leaps Ahead) that shows their strengthening relationship with Apple.

All I have to say is I’m more than willing to beta test any of the laptops for ya Steve, just send me a email and I’ll be sure to put some good hours in.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the creater of one of the most popular political blogs The Daily Kos, was interviewed by Newsweek and it’s really interesting. He talk about the right wing nut Santorum and his ever slimmer growing chances of being relected, even with all his fundraising money from the religous conservatives. He also touches on the Abramoff scandel and potential dager he is to another Senator up for re-election, Tom Delay.
Kos brings up a very good point about Hilary Clinton and her chances to win the ‘08 election, that quite frankly no one knows where she stands on some key issues such as the big one, Iraq. And that is one hell of a problem seeing as thats the same reason Kerry failed to win his election.

Everyone right now is posting their predictions for the coming year, so I decided to mix it up and post some items that I hope will happen next year.

• Apple will release their Intel products quickly with little to no trouble and Rosetta will be a dream come true. They will also continue to grow thanks to the exposure the iPod has given them and there market share will top 8%+.
• Broadband proliferation will continue with greater rural penetration, so that America will be able to catch up with the rest of the civilized world. And bandwidth will rise as well as stabilize in price (5-10mbs for $20/m or 15-20mbs for $40).
• 3G wireless services will continue to grow and expand as well as a price drop that will greatly increase the rate of adoption.
• The Xbox 360 will finally get a killer app (Halo 3) and will trounce the newly released PS3.
• Schools will encourage students to use laptops and other technologies such as RSS to further help students learn better, hopefully with less stress and anxiety.
• WoW will top 10 million subscribers and will finally bury SWG.
• Podcasting will continue to grow at a rapid rate and slowly but surely kill satellite radio.
• Democrats will sweep elections and reclaim their rightful places in Washington.
• Bush will make a fool of himself (Both a hope and prediction really).

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