Mac Rumor Time

It's early January, so the entire Mac web is going nuts with rumors. An office suite? A headless iMac (meaning an iMac without a monitor built in)? Who knows until the Stevenote, but the rumor mill is definitely flying. Bill Palmer's been getting into the headless iMac discussion, as he usually does. You can see his comments here, here and here. He hates the idea, and I tend to agree with him. Who wants to hook up a crappy monitor to a new computer? No one thinks anything of getting a monitor thrown in with their Dell or HP, so why is it such a big deal to have it built-in to the eMac or iMac. Hey, even laptops of all stripes have a built-in monitor! Unlike the Dell's, at least the low end eMac comes with a separate graphics card! The eMac is an awesome machine that blows its price-category-competitors away, so why make something to fit a price category that no one buys in anyway. I recently read that even Dell only sells 3% of its computers in the $500 category (I'll look for the link later). No one wants one, not even Dell customers!

As far as an Office suite goes, the rumors had it tagged as iWork. A few folks claimed that there was no way because there is already software by that name. It's a time billing software by IGG software, and, yes, it is a Mac software. Well, today IGG announced that they were changing the name of their software from iWork to iBiz! Hmmm...