Okay, that image has nothing to with this article except for that fact that I like it considering someone here spent a whole 10 minutes slapping it together. It makes me laugh.

For some strange reason the blogosphere lit up the past week on Apple news. I expected the iPhone grabs, but “rumors” of Apple hardware updates just took off in the last few days.

So, I dutifully, out of pure selfishness of wanting a new iPod, looked through the various rumors sitting on the web and my own inbox.

We bounced a few of these rumors around internally and we all shared a curiously, head-scratching laugh.

In a nutshell, the rumors center around iMac, iPod/iPod Touch, Mac Pro, Macbook/Pro models all getting various hardware updates (processor, graphics, HDD, etc).

Here’s the thing…you should expect to see updates to all of those things. Not because they’re rumored, because Apple usually updates them around this time of year.

Yup. iPod Touch almost always gets an upgrade after a new iPhone release. It’d be shocking not to see an updated Touch that looks surprisingly like it’s ATT loving relative iPhone 4. Expect something iPod related in September or October at the latest.

As for the rest? The lappies are all due for an upgrade as Apple gears up for back-to-school buying. Although usually Macbook Pro’s get an update in January, but the holy MacWorld time has been reserved for major revs to the hardware unlike a speed bump or two that can happen anytime. Macbook/Pros are all due, simple. Expect something along the lines of updated specs sometime in August or October (we’re split on August or October since October would be officially 6 months since the last update).

As for the Mac Pro’s? New Intel chips are on the horizon and I would expect Apple to jump on them as one of the earlier adopters. Time frame on this one is sort of all over the board anything from August-November has been thrown out there and we’re calling even money on anything from that wide range. What? Taking the easy way out? Yes, we are.

Although, I’ll say this. With Apple pulling out events hosted by media companies other than itself, they can pretty much do whatever the heck they want and not reserve things to message on someone else’s time.

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