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Is WiMax Macworld 2008’s theme?

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Jan 12, 2008 at 03:40 PM

Macworld BannerWe saw yesterday that already Apple has put up banners around the Moscone Center, the banners simply have the following message: “There’s something in the air”. The latest craze in the blogosphere is to guess what it means, and Valleywag has a pretty good one. Valleywag assumes that Apple’s mysterious message is referring to a WiFi-like technology called WiMax. According to their source, the long-range broadband technology may be included in the rumored 13 inch ultra-portable notebook and in the MacBook Pro line. It all sounds like it should make sense: “There’s something in the air” and Intel including WiMax in their latest chips. But the Silicon Valley blog is only giving it “a 60% chance” of it happening according to their source.

If anyone can kick off a brand new technology like WiMax - Apple should be the ones to do it. But I still think unless there are more WiMax links around the world, this won’t be so successful. Don’t forget that Apple is streaming this keynote live to Europe, so they wouldn’t be too pleased if the new notebooks could only take advantage of this technology in the USA.

Via [Valleywag]

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