Now that iPod event is over, let's talk MacBooks!

Wireless power doubtful

I don't think the wireless power is advanced enough to work here. We would be seeing a lot more adoption in other areas if this was possible. - think of all power lines on the road being outfitted with this. then you could have electric cars that are being charged just by driving down the road!)

Anyway. again, not quite the level we need it to be yet on that one.

I think what would be helpful, with regard to the brick is if they found a way to integrate the brick into the laptop itself. that way the cord would be just that.

the only down side i would see is that your laptop would then be heavier, which is a big downside. I think i would rather have the soap on a string and a lighter laptop!

I'm interested to see what the "brick" rumour is really all about!

glass touch pad

Sorry for my english, im not american.

One thing is multi-touch that is a function of the trackpad, and other thing is the material wich is made.
Some users has some issues with the current tackpad that wears away the material. Instead of a glass trackpad that will never disappear :-P.
So i think that if buy a glass trackpad, you will have multi-touch too.

The screen behind that you mean is like the toshiba notebooks, that are cool, but i think that is unnecesary, because on a notebook or macbook you have de "key function" that allow to do the same thing.

Glass pad

Well you don't need the glass track pad to have multi-touch. the new notebooks all have multi-touch already, not to the same extent as the iPhone, but again, it doesn't need to be glass to have that functionality.

I don't know what users press on their track-pads so hard that it wears out. I've never heard of this problem. I have had my 12" PowerBook for about 3 years now and I use it for both work and personal (so constant use all the time) and there is not even a mark on it to indicate it's wearing down!

I see glass as a disadvantage as it is more brittle to knocks and bumps.

When i say a screen, I mean that it would need to have a mini viewer of what you are looking at on the main screen, sorta like an iPhone screen as your track-pad. but this would be inefficient because it would cause you to look down at your track pad all the time. i could do with the multi-touch functionality of the iPhone, but the gestures would be based on where your cursor is on the screen.

Again - no need for glass!

New HD

if it's just your HD that died, why not just spend the $250 to get a new one installed? then you can keep your "oasis of sanity" until you are ready to upgrade, and even if you upgrade in October, you will then have two working computers to keep your sanity alive!