6MP sensor using todays technology = noise free images at high ISO, and is just fine for snapshots. really. you don’t need more than that. A 12 megapixel camera that stays at home (because it doesn’t fit in your pocket) doesn’t take great pictures.
24mm prime lens = 6 million really really good pixels, instead of 12 million pixels of fuzzy abberated junk.
(Basically, take a G9, replace the zoom lens with a prime, and put in a physically larger sensor with less pixels. CF would be nice.)
If the glossy screen is easily cleanable (i.e. with a shirt sleeve) without scratching, it’s not too bad, and the increase in brightness and contrast IS remarkable, and will always be higher than what you’ll get out of a matte screen with the same resources. My MacBook screen is a mess though, full of dust, finger smudges, and scratches (!) from me cleaning off said dust and smudges with said shirt sleeve. But, yeah, make matte an option for those who want color accuracy!
Apple should hook up Mail.app into gmail (i.e. syncing tags, flags/stars, etc. into something like IMAP on steroids); hook iCal into google calendars (similar but better than what Spanning Sync does); hook Safari into Google Reader (similar but better than what Firefox does with Google Sync and Google Offline) and ; and iWork into Google Documents (let me have my local documents automatically synced onto google, and allow me to edit them there when i’m on another computer), etc.
Let Apple put their design energy into making it fast and powerful on the desktop side, elegant on the web side, invisible and seamless in between, and let Google do the tech stuff and heavy lifting they’re good at.
i.e. i don’t want to have to jump through this hoop:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/07/11/how-to-use-gmail-over-imap-and-tag-your-mail-too/
