By now , you ’ve probably show that Apple ’s adjudge a “ Mac - tie in ” presentation on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific . You may have also read the forecasting that we ’ll see a new iMac introduced at that coming together .

The prediction makes horse sense — the iMac is currently the “ gray beard ” of the Apple card , an age - if - dependable workhorse that ’s made its mode into many plate as the first Mac in the household . So predicting that Apple has chosen to advance this machine , and swath it in aluminum to equalise the mini , MacBook Pro , and Mac Pro , is about as high-risk as predicting that Paris Hilton will make tabloid headlines or that George Steinbrenner will rant about his Yankees ’ poor performance at some point during the time of year .

to boot , the special consequence is mark for two hour , and even the most fancy of young iMacs would n’t take longer than 20 minutes to usher in . So I distrust we ’ll see more than just an iMac Tuesday . If I were in cathexis of Apple ’s mathematical product development … well , the company would probably have plump bankrupt long ago . But if I managed to nobble in just long enough to limit the products for Tuesday ’s annunciation , here ’s what I ’d make certain Apple include :

Apple ’s .Mac will be down from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday . Hmmmmmmm …

OK , so much for my intellectual forecasting . I still do n’t see the above take a full two hour , so that leave room for two personal pet projects .

So there you have it — my predictions for the near future . I sense passably good about the first five , but do n’t think ( unfortunately ) there ’s any chance we ’ll see either of the last two . melodic phrase in Tuesday for Macworld.com ’s live coverage to see how well I did …