The banter going around is that at the Macworld Expo (which is a little more than a month away) we can expect a lot of surprises. It is slated to be Apple's biggest show of the year. However amongst the noise we also heard that CNBC is reporting that Apple plans at Macworld to introduce a 12-inch Mac laptop with flash memory in place of a hard drive. The Apple fans have been expecting a laptop of this kind to be announced. Speculations suggest that the ultraportable Mac is 50 percent thinner and lighter than a current MacBook Pro, the largest notebook in Apple's lineup. The pricing is expected to be at $1,500, the same price as the 13.3-inch black MacBook that's currently available on Apple's site. If you sit to compare then Dell charges a $950 premium for a 64GB flash memory drive in place of a 160GB hard drive on one of its XPS notebooks. Maybe Apple is using a smaller drive, or a less expensive processor and smaller amounts of memory to offset the cost, however flash memory drives aren't expected to be practical for a few years.

At the Macworld Expo platform Apple may reveal more about it's 3G version of the iPhone early next year, and that demand for the iPod Touch has caused Apple to up its production estimates.

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