Apple

It’s time again for serious Mac geeks to travel to San Francisco for Macworld Expo. FILE 2007/The Associated Press Apple chief executive Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at last year’s Macworld in San Francisco. The Mac faithful have been busy blogging about rumors on what innovations may be coming from Apple this year. I’ve said this before, but it’s my favorite week of the year.

I’ll be at chief executive Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday, and I’ll be updating our tech blog as I can during the event. I may enlist my fellow bloggers to post for me with some timely texting from the speech. Traditionally, new Apple hardware and software is introduced by Mr. Jobs himself at a keynote or special media event. If you follow Macintosh news at all, you’ve probably seen at least a snippet of a Steve Jobs keynote. It’s part CEO speech and part rock concert.

People will start lining up at the Moscone West convention center the night before, and by the time breakfast rolls around the line will be around the entire building. As for what will be introduced, there is only speculation. Last year, Mr. Jobs introduced the iPhone and AppleTV. One of those has been a huge hit and the other (cough, cough, AppleTV) not so much.

There we were at the largest gathering of Macintosh fans in the world, and there was not one mention of any new Macintosh desktops or laptops. It almost seems as if upgrading existing lines of computers is not important enough to merit a keynote mention. I guess that’s OK. This year I’ve been reading the rumor sites along with everyone else. Here’s what I think might come out of Macworld 2008.