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"  Last night, my sleep was feverish, what with having just spent the week in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show combing through gadget after gadget. And no sooner should I get home than comes time to turn around and fly out to San Francisco for MacWorld. Needless to say, all this nerdy excitement has started to affect my dreams. As I slumbered, a stage appeared before me. Flashes of iPods, iMacs and iPhones danced about on a huge screen in the background. Music blared\u2014Gorillaz, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem\u2014and all around me was a crowd of rabid techno-hipsters, seething, typing furiously on their MacBooks. MacWorld was still almost two days away, but it was happening live in my mind. Naturally, I start blogging, which, incidentally, I will also be doing for real tomorrow right here starting at 9 a.m. Pacific time. \u2014Glenn Derene 8:45: The Apple luminaries are all here\u2014lead designer Jonathan Ive, VP of product marketing Phil Schiller, John Hodgman and Justin Long. But Steve Jobs has not yet made an appearance. Banners are everywhere, proclaiming that &amp;quot;Something is in the Air.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ve seen these banners online, but what could they mean?!?! Speculation on fanboy sites has become rampant. Is it HSDPA wireless LAN cards in new MacBook Pros? Wireless headphones for iPhones? Is Steve Jobs launching his own fragrance? 8:59: The music has changed. It&amp;#039;s hard to tell above all the cheering from the Apple faithful, but I think I&amp;#039;m hearing Right Said Fred. The PA system has just announced Steve Jobs, and here he is, looking dashing with his salt-and-pepper crewcut, black mock turtleneck, jeans and sneakers. Steve&amp;#039;s looking fit and happy\u2014he&amp;#039;s been having a good year. 9:04: First, to business. The screen shows an iPhone, and everyone&amp;#039;s going nuts, holding up iPhones like lighters at a concert. Holy crap! The guy next to me just fainted! &amp;quot;The iPhone was launched in June, and we&amp;#039;ve already sold 3 million!&amp;quot; Steve says. Apple TV comes on the screen. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve sold some of these, too!&amp;quot; he says. 9:10: Apple TV&amp;#039;s still on screen. I smell an announcement. &amp;quot;The iTunes store isn&amp;#039;t just about music anymore. It&amp;#039;s getting to the point where the name is misleading. Just like Apple Computer became Apple Inc., it&amp;#039;s time to rebrand. We&amp;#039;re calling it...&amp;quot; pause for dramatic effect... &amp;quot;iBuy!&amp;quot; Crowd is a little uncomfortable with that. I hear grumbling. Jobs continues. &amp;quot;And on iBuy, we&amp;#039;re expanding our offerings. We&amp;#039;re not just talking Disney and Paramount movies anymore, we&amp;#039;re adding rentals from all the major studios: Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, Fox, Lion&amp;#039;s Gate. And on the new iBuy, you can post your own movies and music directly from iMovie and Garageband into our new iBuy Indy Store. We&amp;#039;ll split the profits with you 50-50.&amp;quot; Wow. Apple&amp;#039;s a de facto studio now.  9:22: Yet another announcement about the Apple TV. &amp;quot;To play all that new content, we&amp;#039;re introducing the newest member of the Apple TV line: a 42-in. Apple LCD television. We call it iLCD.&amp;quot; Ooooooh, cries the crowd. &amp;quot;All the goodness of Apple TV will be built into this beauty. Airport Extreme streaming video, a 230GB hard drive for local storage, instant access to the iTunes... excuse me... iBuy store. And now, we&amp;#039;ve worked with Sling Media to integrate Slingbox functionality, so you can watch and listen to your content from anywhere\u2014on your laptop or even on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Plus, if you have one of thse, you can now download Sling software to turn it into a universal remote control for your iLCD.&amp;quot; 9:30: Speaking of iPhones, Jobs seems to have an announcement about that. He&amp;#039;s talking about how revolutionary the first iPhone is, how it&amp;#039;s changed the industry, blah, blah, blah.... Holy smokes! There&amp;#039;s a picture on the screen of a new iPhone. It looks exactly like the old iPhone, but it&amp;#039;s got wireless earbuds that you can use to answer phone calls. Guy next to me has woken up, but is panting really loud. Shut up already! Some of us are trying to blog. 9:33: New iPhone costs $599\u2014exactly what the last one was launched at (guess that explains the price drop). It&amp;#039;s 3G (!), with haptics feedback and running on the HSDPA network. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s also got a few other tricks up its sleeve,&amp;quot; Steve says, slyly. Wonder what he means... 9:36: New iPhone is called iPhone Pro. &amp;quot;And when we say &amp;#039;pro&amp;#039; we mean it,&amp;quot; says Jobs. &amp;quot;The iPhone Pro will run a mini version of Microsoft Entourage, the e-mail client of choice for corporate networks. That means that the iPhone Pro will be able to seamlessly and wirelessly sync with all of your corporate e-mail.&amp;quot; Brilliant, I says. Now iPhones will be a no-brainer for executives. BlackBerry is screwed.  9:39: More about iPhone Pro. It&amp;#039;s going to have GPS inside, and will work with Google Maps. It ships with a car cradle and can be used as a nav system. Awesome! AT&amp;amp;amp;T&amp;#039;s going to provide real-time traffic data for $5/month. Plus, Sling functionality is built in. Watch your content from home on the road over the airwaves.  9:42: Wireless earbuds will also ship with iPhone Pro, running stereo Bluetooth. Plus, syncing to computer can be done wirelessly. Wonder if that&amp;#039;s what the &amp;quot;Something&amp;#039;s in the Air&amp;quot; banners were about. 9:48: Oh, but there&amp;#039;s more! Steve&amp;#039;s talking about upgrading the MacBook Pro line. (It&amp;#039;s all about the pros this morning.) A picture of a new group of MacBook Pros is on the screen\u2014a 15-in. and a 17-in. model. The exterior is brushed aluminum and black rubber\u2014looks sort of like the back of an iPhone (just as I had already dreamed here!). Touchpad is multitouch. Steve&amp;#039;s talking energy efficiency. Says new MacBook Pros will be 25 percent more efficient. Also says Apple will be participating in recycling program set up by Panasonic last week. Tapping in on the green trend never hurts.  9:55: &amp;quot;But there&amp;#039;s a new addition to the MacBook Pro line,&amp;quot; Steve says. Guy next to me is hyperventilating and whispering under his breath: &amp;quot;tablet, tablet, tablet.&amp;quot; The big screen shows off a beautiful tablet Mac. &amp;quot;Other&amp;#039;s have tried this concept without really taking advantage of the form factor,&amp;quot; Steve says. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re viewing it as a totally new type of computer: the AirBook.&amp;quot; Steve&amp;#039;s revealing details: Two pounds, 13-in. screen, running on upcoming Intel Menlow platform, 10-hour battery life, multitouch screen. Comes with a foldable keyboard and docking station. Can&amp;#039;t hear much more above heavy breathing from nerds in the audience.  9:57: &amp;quot;Oh yeah,&amp;quot; says Steve. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s one more thing.&amp;quot; Audience chuckles, cheers, head bangs. &amp;quot;Every new MacBook Pro, AirBook and iPhone will, starting this spring, ship with integrated WiMAX.&amp;quot; Hmm, that can&amp;#039;t be right. WiMAX is Sprint&amp;#039;s technology. Apple&amp;#039;s in bed with Sprint and AT&amp;amp;amp;T? &amp;quot;Apple will be bidding in the FCC spectrum auction this year,&amp;quot; Steve announces (!). &amp;quot;If we get part of the 700MHz spectrum, we&amp;#039;ll build out a network within the next year, and we&amp;#039;ll offer up to 1 Mbps access for free. For $30 a month, you&amp;#039;ll get 4Mbps.&amp;quot; Weird. Apple&amp;#039;s suddenly a cellular and Internet service provider. Look out, world! 10:00: Scary scene here. Creeps from AT&amp;amp;amp;T and Sprint have started FIRING TOWARD THE STAGE WITH SNIPER RIFLES! Steve&amp;#039;s pulls Matrix-style moves to dodge bullets! He just rolled in to an escape pod (how sleek-looking!) on stage left.  10:03: Somewhere in this whirlwind, between the cops storming the stage and the Engadget dude&amp;#039;s tongue falling out, someone managed to let John Mayer out here to play his new single, &amp;quot;Say.&amp;quot; Telco assassins are getting a serious butt-kicking from the Apple fanboys. The room&amp;#039;s blurring.... and I wake up. Whoa!  RELATED STORIES \u2022 BOOKMARK: The Real Steve Jobs Live Blog From MacWorld  \u2022 PLUS: Complete Coverage From MacWorld 2008  \u2022 VIDEO: Apple&amp;#039;s MacBook Tablet Revealed (in Our Dreams)  \u2022 BUZZWORD: 3 More Ways Apple Will Dominate in &amp;#039;08  \u2022 BUZZWORD: How Apple Can Save the Music Business  \u2022 PODCAST: Looking in to the Apple Crystal Ball   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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