HA, i've been faster than thou!
Noticed it a couple of minutes ago

*strike*

I check every Tuesday now. but I think this particular Tuesday maybe the one that means I upgrade my G4etto Powerbook. I've had a MBP on loan for a couple of weeks now and even though it flies, it just doesn't feel like an upgrade because it's still the same case. If I buy new, I want something really new.

Perhaps iLife and iWork 07 will finally show up. Perhaps .mac is getting that injection of life Steve mentioned at D. Expect the interwebs to die around 5pm UK time.

I want Apple to allow pre-orders beginning today because if they do I'll place on order so fast it will make my head spin. I could use a new MacBook Pro too, but I'd be more excited to see the iPhone with a BUY NOW button next to it.

After seeing the new commercials last night I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Apple will sell every iPhone they make for the next 2 years, and surpass even their own estimates.

Seriously now, even the most Anti-Apple commenter on this site has to admit that Apple has taken the cell phone market to a place no other company even dared to imagine.

I've never been so excited about a product since, well, forever. I'm a grown adult, with a real job, a real wife and real kids, yet, I see myself tucking the iPhone under my pillow at night, keeping it dry on the sink while I shower, propping it up on my desk while I work, placing it on my center console in my car while I drive, in other words, it will never leave my side.

I'm already story-boarding my iPhoto book called "Me and my iPhone" which I plan to publish for the holidays...you think I'm kidding?

Oh, this morning, I show the new commercials to my wife. I ask; "Don't you just love this?? Don't you just want one right now?".. Her response? "meh".... I was crushed.

Yeah, I'm excited...

I hope they are corndogs!

If it arrives unheralded like this, it will just be a boring processor speed increase.

@XtremeCamera
LOL. Dude... I know how ya feel. For some reason there's part of my subconscious mind that still thinks the iPhone will shoot laser beams, but its still missing from the specs everytime I look. Later this year maybe.

XtremeCamera - Not to flaunt or anything, but by way of comparison: my wife suggested that we buy each other iPhones as anniversary gifts.

And this year will be our 10 year anniversary.

Regarding my intense desire for an iPhone:

I haven't actively owned a cell phone in about 2 years, and I work in IT. It just got to be too much, always being available, with "Why didn't you answer my call/txt/email?" always coming at me. Now it's just not expected. (And it was never needed)

The iPhone is changing this. Just like in Godfather 3, I thought I was out, but the iPhone pulls me back in.

"We'll find our place in the path unwinding in the circle - the circle of life" It's from the lion king and has no relevance here - but what the hell..

SammyBaby, obviously your wife is much more tech savvy than mine :-( My wife doesn't know, nor care, about the difference between an ibook or macbook pro. "Can I get my email?!" is all she cares about... its sad, but I carry on.

Anniversary gifts are a great idea, ours is coming up in July and what does MY wide want to do? Go on vacation! What a waste of money! $2-3K to go away for a week? Think of the cool gadgets you could get with that kind of money! Unbelievable!

It's been what, 1.5 hours since the store went down and its STILL down? Come on Apple, I'm dying here!

Here's a more apropos lyric"

"If wishes were trees the trees would be falling
Listen to reason Apple is calling ... " [REM, well sort of]

Every time the Apple site goes down the wishing starts ...

- Headless Mac?
- Updated PowerBook?
- iPhone with the entire contents of PirateBay pre-loaded?
- Quad core PowerMac with phase inducing transporter?

Faster MacBook Pro??

Now at 2.2 and 2.5 GHz

A bumped up MacBook Pro - that's all.

Boooring.

Promethean, being bothered all the time in your job is related to setting expectations and rules. While I was in investment banking I was literally afraid of my phone because one call at any time could mean an 80 hour week turned into a 110 hour week. That's why I didn't want a Blackberry or cell phone then. Now that I have a position with different expectations, I like being connected again. Technology isn't the problem in these cases, people using it inappropriately is the problem.

I'm a pretty stout supporter of Apple (hate most M$ product attmepts), but am I the only person who thinks "meh" about the iPhone. I think they severly missmarketed the phone to the wrong target base for its functionality and especially price. Don't get me wrong it'll sell bajoodles due to fanboyism, but I see that dying off this year.

XtremeCamera: a compromise! Get gadgetry, and go on a cheap vacation!

(Seriously? The last real vacation we took was to New Hampshire, where we stayed in a fairly cheap motel and went hiking along the Arethusa Falls trail. It was unbelievably wonderful.)

"The iPhone is changing this. Just like in Godfather 3, I thought I was out, but the iPhone pulls me back in."

Is this supposed to be some sort of knock on the iPhone? Last I checked, being compared to Godfather 3 was not a good thing...

The store is back up with "Faster MacBook Pro"... Don't see evidence of Santa Rosa though.

Yeah, but with more processor speed i can eat more corndogs with more mustard faster than ever before.

Then, of course, I'll puke.

;0)