In less than a week Apple will refresh the macbook lineup or introduce a new portable better priced and features packed, but as a mac fan myself, there’s a lot of things that Apple has been missing or opting out that I would really like to see incorporated into new products. Here a small list of those things mac users have been waiting for years and Apple has been deaf and lazy.

1. Games, games and more games.
Sorry if I insist, but gaming is a big part of our mac friends time, we do really enjoy games, but we have to go to bootcamp to play some decent games available only for Windows PC. We have been talking about the game resurgence on the mac platform for decades and nothing has really happened… Please Apple, wake up!

2. Wireless iPhone/iPod Sync.
This is something that I really don’t understand, but I got a confused idea, We all bought iPhone or iPod Touch with Wifi but without Bluetooth, We all have mac wireless ready macs that can sync our Blackberry, our old Palm devices, but We can’t sync anything wireless on the iPhone or iPod and believe me this is one of the most strange thing, too much advanced in on side of the device and in the other one in the Paleolithic making fire with stones and living on caves.

3. Touchscreen and Handwriting technology.
Since Mac OS X was introduced Apple started shipping Inkwell, a handwriting application that will let you use a pen to make input in your graphic tablet, just like the handwriting application for the always admired Newton, but the strange part is that Inkwell has been in the dark side, missing in action for years and nobody has really taken seriously this excellent application, because the market for graphic tablet is relatively small and Apple DOES NOT offer any kind of handwriting or touchscreen technology in their monitors. Got it? Ship something to a market that is soooo small and not provide any device in any form where to use it is a waste of time and money.

4. MacPro priced at US$1700.
Apple has been offering good priced desktop computers for years, but with the introduction of the Intel Core Duo and Xeon Technologies we has lost the affordable Mac that has been between US$1700 and US$2200. Apple could easily solve this situation, in the next upgrade time, where they usually introduce a new and faster model at the top price and move down the actual machines, the intro MacPro that actually cost US$2800 can be priced at US$1700, this model usually is the one that desapper from the store, but we really need a better priced MacPro. I am waiting for a price reduction to replace my 2 G5, I really feel my G5 faster than my iMac 20″ and I won’t buy any new iMac, not way.

6. Blu-Ray, please.
Danm. This is what makes Apple really look like a pet project of Steve Jobs. All, I mean, All major PC makers, just those dull boxes with dull features and not taste in design and whatever we would like to add, have been SHIPPING desktop and laptop PCs loaded with Blu-Ray. Si, Señor (Yes, Sir) and Apple is still thinking about who will win the battle between the formats. Ironically, DVD Studio Pro can burn material to HD-DVD. Strange, but true!

Let’s hope the next MacWorld bring us more and more excitement from the Mac Platform, I am fed up about all thing iPhone where I don’t make any money, I need a really affordable machine not a mobile phone, it is time to turn the spotlight to the mac, cause the platform has been abandoned or put on cold ice.