It is probably something more than a Madona iPod, maybe the last hurrah of the Motorola PowerMacs. I am at the point of deciding to upgrade my PowerMac G4 MDD or waiting a year or so until the Intels come out. If they have something fantastic in the way of a PowerMac I may go ahead and upgrade and wait for the second generation Intel Macs.

I wouldn't be interested in a Madona iPod, a Van Morrison special would appeal to me. I wish he, or whomever owns the rights, would allow his old stuff on the iTunes Music Store.

Hm... it will definitely not be good idea to buy anything brand new, like intel macs. It is generally better to wait for the first generation faults to be fixed, and buy on the second. This is why i'm trying to save enough money to get a brand new PowerPC powerbook, before they switch to intel.
(Working as a consultant in many product development projects, not with apple though.)

I wonder if they giggled any when talking about the Macintels? They’ll be announcing the first one in January, i’m sure. Everybody’s looking to June.

Oh, and Steve did not build all this hype over just a Madonna iPod! This is a real product announcement. A video product announcement. May include a video iPod, but i don’t think that’ll be the centerpiece of the announcement (it’ll be a peripheral, just like the Airport AV he’ll announce). Looking for something like a Mac mini AV with built-in DVR, and maybe an iTMS for old TV shows and a few movies (but not many).

Yeah, there probably will be a pink iPod nano, but who cares?