The Betting is on New iMacs at next Tuesday's Apple Event

There's an Apple Event at it's campus in Cupertino next Tuesday. Some members of the press have been invited to get a presentation, most likely from Steve Jobs, focused on the Mac. Most writers have suggested that Steve Jobs will announce a new iMac (e.g. this Dow Jones Newswires article).

Some had expected a new iMac to be released at Macworld 2007 in January but not us. Steve Jobs' keynote focused instead on the iPhone which we (and many others) had guessed correctly along with Apple TV and AirPort Extreme "n" released by Apple at Macworld.

While we really like the current iMac design and have a 20" iMac Core Duo and a 24" iMac Core 2 Duo, time marches on and consumer products need to be refreshed from a design point at a greater frequency than others. We would not be surprised to see a new iMac form with the latest "Santa Rosa" Intel CPUs. [Dana Baggett and Bill Fox]