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American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu cites sources who say that Apple will start shipping some of their computers with Blu-ray support as early as Macworld.Appleinsider also corroborates the report with their own sources, expecting an overhaul to the Mac Pro in the 1st quarter of 2008 with Blu-ray support.Mac Pro updates have been long overdue with the last major update almost 17 months ago. While some rumors have pegged the Mac Pro update at Macworld, there has been only minimal buzz about it in the final weeks before the expo.

 Could this be the awaited Ultra Slim Macbook Pro? We’ll have to wait until Jan 15 when his holiness “Steve Jobs“  unveils the latest apple products at MacWorld 2008. !!

AppleInsider reports that there will be something “super secret” unveiled at a January 16 Final Cut Pro group, held a day after Steve Jobs’ January 15 Macworld keynote. What it is is unknown (obviously, because it’s a secret), but will probably not be the next version of Final Cut Studio. It could be an updated Mac Pro with improved processors/memory/specs/whatever, but it’s unlikely that it’s going to be anything for the consumer audience. So unless you’re waiting for an update to the high end Macs or some sort of Final Cut software feature update, you won’t have much to look forward to.

Crunchgear says the secret’s out, and it’s going to be integrated Redcode inside Final Cut Studio. This means there will be native Red support, editing that 4k video image at a lower resolution so you won’t have to tax your box looking at 4k pixels whenever you’re editing.