A Mac In Every Home, CES Round-up

First a warning, if you plan to watch Apple CEO Steve Job's webcast from MacWorld, skip down to the CES round-up.
Among the announcements expected from Jobs on Tuesday is the release of a sub $500 iMac. ThinkSecret is reporting the unit will come without a monitor and have a G4 processor, a 40-80 gig hard drive, a combo optical drive, USB 2.0, Firewire 400, 10/100 base-T Ethernet, Airport Extreme capability, VGA and DVI. Bundled software included with the system is thought to include Appleworks and iLife, without iDVD. The unit will be housed in a flat enclosure with a height of less than 2 inches, so users can place the iMac either beside their Windows machine or under a monitor.
The new unit seems to be in line with Apple's desire to convert Windows users over to Mac. In addition to an affordable iMac. Apple is also rumored to be developing their own version of Microsoft Office, code named "sugar", and expected to be branded iWork 2005 upon release.

CES Round-up - The announcements that got the most buzz at CES:
- TIVO's new HD Unit that comes with a cable card slot, so analogue cable customers can use the device.
- HD DVD will be in stores by the end of the year with at least 100 titles available by Christmas. Also look for Toshiba's stand alone HD DVD burner around the same time.
- Yahama YSP-1, winner of best of CES, is a home theatre receiver which replaces speakers with beams and offers superb virtual surround sound.
- The world's largest Plasma TV at 102 inches.
- DAVE.TV - a new service designed to allow content providers to join the IPTV revolution.