1. BluRay - 25GB & 50GB recording capabilities for completely backing up my hard drive on 2 BluRay discs. Sony just put its $3,499 BluRay laptop up for pre-release sale, so Apple should follow by January MacWorld, at the latest.

2. Robson - 64MB-4GB Flash memory for booting in seconds, rather than half a minute. Availability: next year.

3. 802.11n (forgot this one!) - The promise is for bandwidth rates of up to 540mbps, which is cool - but not that useful, since we're limited by the speed of the cable/DSL connection, but not bad for internal data transfers. The important piece is the 2-8x increase in range. Sweet.

4. Maturity - In the 5 months since the Pro came out, and Apple has had more than 4 revisions (2 months ago, they were on Revision E). Over time, Apple works out kinks in each revision - such as fan noise.

5. Important Universal Binaries - A lot of my company's work requires the Adobe Suite, and the Universal Binary that will come with Adobe CS 3 won't be available until 2007. Speed is your friend, and running CS2 on a 2 Ghz MacBook under Rosetta is 60% slower than on a 12" Powerbook. Blechhh.

6. Virtualization - VMWare is releasing its software in the next 6 months for OS X, although Parallels just went Gold. I'll look out for reviews of the last version, although the last release candidate wasn't stable.

7. Buyer's remorse - I bought my 17" PowerBook in November. Ouch. I bought the 15" Titanium, 3 months before the 17" Powerbook came out, in November. I got the 17" Powerbook in November 2005, 3 months before the 15" MacBook Pro came out. Ouch. Steve Jobs knows when I'm about to buy a new laptop, and hates me. Punk.

7. Leopard & iLife 07' - Save $129 on a next-generation OS and $79 on iLife. I'm guessing Leopard availability in Summer 07' and January 07' for iLife. Ok, this one's really just more buyer's remorse :-).