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    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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  Apple Preps for 4th Quarter Results
    Fortune has polled 31 analysts and they predict Apple may have sold an average of 3.85 million Macs for the quarter and could possible crack the 4 million mark.
    Predictions include
      $18.76 billion in revenue
      Gene Munster
        11 million iPhones
        4.5 million iPads
        3.7 million Macs
        10 and 10.5 million iPods
    Gartner reported that in the 3rd quarter of 2010 Apple reached 10.4% of the US PC market share (up from 9.3% last year).
      With the 5 million iPad included as "PCs" Apple would be the largest US PC maker.
    Apple's stock price cracked the $300 per share mark last week.
  Predictions for "Back to the Mac" Event
    Preview of Mac OS 10.7 "Lion"?
    iLife '11
      iDVD replaced?
    Smaller, cheaper Macbook Air
      11.6-inch screen
      Price dropped from $1,499
      Unibody case with carbon fiber — may weigh less than 2.7lbs
      Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and Nvidia MCP89 graphics (but may have first AMD CPU used in a Mac)
      Solid State hard drive
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