Apple MacBook Pro 17″ with unibody, 8-hour battery (even though non user-replaceable) and up to 8 GB RAM (!!!)

iLife ’09 which, along with all updates, introduces an interesting Garageband feature: music school lessons with the best artist around!

iWork ’09
that introduces iWork.com, right now a public-beta online service for document sharing

iTunes pricing changes:

(check our partner site iPodPalace.com about this iTunes-related topic)

Highly recommended: check these Garageband previews with music lessons from selected artists!

Apple yesterday rolled out new iPhone and iPod touch models with beefed-up memories and bumped-up prices.

The new iPods touch and iPhones will ship with the new software that CEO Steve Jobs unveiled at last month’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, including a maps application that allows users to use a combination of cell tower and Wi-Fi hot spot triangulation to mimic a GPS device and find their location on Google-powered maps.

Partner site iPodPalace.com released two new videos on the new iPod nano and iPod Classic.

This one shows the new iPod nano games: three are embedded and more are upcoming on iTunes!

[you can see this video by clicking here too]

Another video shows the Cover Flow feature on the new iPod Classic.

The facts about iPod touch:
- 3,5″ wide screen,
- same touch-screen user interface as iPhone,
- slightly smaller than iPhone, but same cool design,
- WiFi-enabled,
- Safari & Widgets,
- 8 GB and 16 GB

Some pretty update for all other iPods:
- smaller iPod nano,
- bigger-capacity iPod Classic (hard disk-based).

Read more here, here and on partner site iPodPalace.com

Several weeks of rumors about a pending iPod announcement were apparently confirmed late Tuesday afternoon, when Apple sent out an invitation to the media for an event on Wednesday in San Francisco. True to form, the company didn’t explicitly say what was expected, but the white silhouette of a dancing iPod user didn’t leave much to the imagination.

As the invite says, “the beat goes on” for Apple’s iPod division. Almost six years after the debut of the iPod, Apple dominates the handheld music player market with 72.4% of the market in the first half of this year, according to research by The NPD Group.

The George Foreman iGrill (!) is the ultimate barbeque cooking machine for the iPod generation... or something like that. We don't know what the launch campaign slogans will sound like, but we have just heard about this "gem" and couldn't pass up the occasion to relay it to our readers.

The iGrill is an indoor/outdoor electric barbeque grill with an impressive 200 sq. inches of nonstick coated cooking surface, adjustable temperature control probe and... is iPod ready with an integrated 10 watts speaker.

So invite your friends around... no barbeque party will ever be the same again!

The The George Foreman iGrill is available now for a street price of $149.99.

Thanks to SourceCrowd.com.

Corripio is the premier tool for gathering album artwork. By searching four sources: the iTunes Store, Coveralia, Best Buy, and Walmart; Corripio enables the user to get the exact artwork they want.

In continuing to improve usability, Corripio has a new contextual menu, thus making the user experience that much more enjoyable. In addition, the user has more control of lyrics because of the added Lyrics window.

Go here for a snappy download!

Now-shipping PCs already come with some flavour of Vista, from the basic one to the Ultimate Premium – sort of XP Pro + Media Center, but early users are reporting critical problems with iTunes and fear losing their music library, as posted in some forums.

Read more on News.com: Apple to Windows iTunes users: Don’t install Vista yet , on Afterdawn’s forum iTunes has problems with Vista and here, on partner web site www.ipodpalace.com coverage on Vista and Apple software compatibility list.

iLife & iWork ’07 – Apple’s iApps usually get updated at Macworld Expo and this year should be no exception. Look for updates to both of Apple’s software suites and maybe we’ll even see the addition of a spreadsheet (rumored to be called “Numbers” or “Sheets”).
[odds: even money]

Mac OS 10.5 – Leopard could be released at Macworld Expo despite Steve Jobs’ assertion that it would be released in “Spring 2007.” Remember that Steve likes to under-promise and over-deliver and take a peek under your seat at the keynote address.
[odds: 2:1]

Jason goes on with Quad Mac Pros, renewed Apple Cinema Displays and the usual ‘rumors’-items.

Gizmodo reports that iTunes 7.0.1 shows some interesting messages.

Namely photo and video support from iTunes to a still-to-identify mobile phone! (anyway not a phone currently available…)
Are these hints to upcoming models from Motorola or the like, or the real iPhone itself?

Check Gizmodo original story.