Last Call For Macworld Expo Keynote Speculation

At the moment, it's 9:37pm here at New York's JFK airport on Monday night, and I'm stuck--but still hoping to get home to San Francisco in time for tomorrow morning's Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld Expo. If I'm there, I'll blog the whole thing so you can learn what's new as soon as I do, and we'll have plenty of other coverage, too.

I know what I hope to see there: A small, thin, light MacBook that sports both a hard drive and an optical drive. There's no reason why Apple can't engineer such a beast--and no way (yet) to build a truly satisfying, affordable MacBook that has flash memory instead of a hard disk. And who wants to tote an external drive?

Daring Fireball's John Gruber, one of the smartest people in Macdom, has a list of his best guesses at what we'll learn that's the smartest one I've seen. By which I mean, I agree with practically all of it.

And here's a stupid little poll that covers some of the rumors about tomorrow's news--take it before Steve Jobs takes the stage and eliminates all the fun of wondering about this stuff...