Yesterday Apple updated a bunch of products.  Most were just hardware updates (CPU speed bumps, graphics card updates, more RAM etc.) and there are so many to mention that I'll just have to refer you to Apple.com or MacRumors if you want to see the nitty-gritty details.  Just know that if you were in the market for an iMac, Mac Pro or Mac Mini now's probably the time to take the plunge.  I'm just happy because the iMac wasn't significantly updated, no aesthetic redesign or anything, so I'm still pleased with my 24" 3.06ghz iMac from last July.

What I did find interesting was a lesser-noted addition to Apple's product line: the new wired wireless keyboard.  It's basically a wired version of of their wireless keyboard which means that it's shrunken down and has no number pad.  To me this is pretty odd.  The justification of forgoing a number pad on my wireless keyboard was that it was exactly that: wireless.  Who's going to buy the same keyboard but now it has a wire and no numpad?  Dunno, like I said, it just seems goofy to me.

Apple\'s new wired wireless keyboard

What most excites me about these updates is what wasn't updated.  This smacks of "clearing the road for WWDC" to me.  With these updates they can get all of their spec-bumps out of the way and save the flashy stuff for WWDC.  After all, announcing a new iMac that looks just like the old iMac but is slightly faster doesn't really excite audiences at a keynote.  Instead they can roll out the new version of the iPhone, which I'm hotly anticipating.  We might even see something a little more over-the-top like the iTablet everyone's talking about these days.  Honestly though, if at WWDC they just spend a whole 2 hours talking about a new rev of the iPhone and how cool all of its new features are, I'll be happy.

If you think about it, the iPhone is the perfect product for WWDC.  At a developers conference you should talk about what developers are developing for, right?  Increasingly that's the iPhone.  How many millions of applications have been downloaded from the App Store?  Sure, standard desktop applications are still important but iPhone apps are the new hotness right now.