New iMacs and Mac Mini Probably Definitely Coming Next Monday or Tuesday Maybe

November 3rd, 2008 by SJC | Filed under Rumours.

Okay, just when I think I’ve finally got the hang of this Apple product launch speculation lark — it’s really very arcane and complex, but basically you check Mac Rumours for a list of machines which haven’t been updated in a while, post that they’ll be refreshed next Tuesday, then keep repeating week after week until you finally get it right — when suddenly the rest of the blogosphere gets all random and pulls the carpet out from under me. I swear it’s all a conspiracy.

Apparently, the new iMacs and Mac Minis — the ones fitted with the new NVIDIA chipset to make them super fast HD-playing monsters which’ll just fly off the shelves this holdiay buying season — are due to be launched on the 10th. Which my calendar tells me is a Monday (although it is set to GMT, which could be causing a problem). Which is just messed-up. 2008 was meant to be the Year of Apple Treat Tuesdays.

Ah, but Electric Pig has a possible explanation. They’ve noticed that this November the 10th marks a rather special anniversary. That’s right, you remember correctly. This time next week it will have been exactly 11 years since the introduction of the Power Macintosh G3. Has it really been that long? Wow. How time flies. (Apparently there’s also some kind of 25 years of Windows thing, too, but most people will want to forget that, right? Lots of sitting in darkened rooms, drinking vodka and listening to Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah on repeat. That kind of thing. It’s what I’d be doing if I didn’t have the G3 party to keep myself busy.)

Anyway, we’ll give the last word to John Moltz — the crazy Apple rumourmonger whose shoes we want to steal and then fill — via Twitter: