MacWorld Keynote Bingo

This year, as last, there will be MacWorld keynote Bingo. Simply study this Bingo card and go to the Ars Technica web site for explanation:

http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2008/01/06/mwsf-2008-keynote-bingo



You will also be able to download a PDF of the Bingo Card so you can play along at home!

Here is this list what you will be looking for to check off your Bingo squares:

• New Mac Pro - A new Mac Pro. Though new Mac Pros have already been announced, you may still mark this square if the new Mac Pros are mentioned in tomorrow's keynote.
• New displays - New Apple external displays.
• HD video somewhere - High-definition video appears on some piece of Apple hardware or software. It must be explicitly described as "HD" or "high-definition." HD video for sale in the iTunes store counts.
• MacBook Thin - A new subnotebook from Apple, regardless of its actual branding or product name. What's a subnotebook? Use your own judgement. The only restriction is that to be a MacBook it must have a hardware keyboard.
• New MacBook Pro - Any revision to the MacBook Pro product line.
• Multi-touch Mac - Any Mac with a feature described as "multi-touch" or even just "touch." It can be a screen, trackpad, whatever.
• "Wouldn't it be great...?" - Steve Jobs begins with his favorite rhetorical question.
• MacBook Thin has flash - The subnotebook (described in the "MacBook Thin" square above) contains some nontrivial amount of flash RAM.
• "One more thing..." - Steve Jobs says there's "one more thing." A slide containing the phrase is also acceptable, even if Jobs does not actually say it.
• New Apple TV - The moribund Apple TV is revised or replaced with a new product that does the same sort of thing.
• Movie Rentals - Apple rents downloadable movies from the iTunes store.
• "Boom" - Steve Jobs says the word "boom" during keynote.
• Existence of Xserve acknowledged - The Xserve or Xserve RAID is mentioned by a presenter, listed on a slide, or even just appears in a photo, illustration, or screenshot.
• Blu-ray - Sony's Blu-ray disc format is mentioned by a presenter. (Text or a logo on a slide does not count.)
• iPhone SDK details - Significant new information about the iPhone SDK.
• New displays have cameras - New Apple displays with built-in or otherwise attached cameras.
• New iPhone - New iPhone hardware. Even minor revisions count.
• Mac market share touted - Good news about the market share of Macintosh computers is presented.
• Optical drive sold separately - An Apple-branded external optical drive is introduced and is available for individual sale.
• Schiller - Phil Schiller appears on stage or in live video. (Pre-recorded segments do not count.)
• Leopard vs. Vista - Mac OS X 10.5 is compared to Vista in some way. Showing one of the Mac/PC TV ads does not count. The comparison must be part of the live presentation.
• Dockable Mac - Some hardware product that runs Mac OS X docks to some other piece of hardware.
• Native third-party iPhone app demo - A demonstration of an OS X application written by a third-party, or written by Apple as an example of what could be written using the new iPhone SDK.
• No new displays - No new Apple external display products are introduced. (Rioting optional.)

One of the funniest wished for announcements was Steve Jobs to launch a Gen 3 Newton. Now that would be a huge surprise to all those predicting new Apple products.