Rumor: The Macbook Brick. This is easily the most pervasive rumor floating around the Web. Word has it that Apple has pioneered a new method for carving cases out of solid bricks of aluminum using lasers and high pressure water jets. The end result is sleek casing design that requires no screws.

Rumor: The budget Macbook. At $800, the rumored budget notebook would be the cheapest Macbook yet--almost $300 cheaper than the current low-end model. What sorts of features would such a notebook have? We're guessing that it would be comparable to the many netbooks that have flooded the market in recent months, only with OS X--and a significantly higher price tag.

Rumor: Macbook Air upgrades. This one makes perfect sense, of course. So, what kind of upgrades can we look forward to in the Macbook Air's second rev? How about a Penryn-class Core 2 processor and bigger hard drives.

Rumor: Blu-Ray support. This one's been a long time coming, of course, but will Blu-Ray's failure to launch keep pushing the inevitable upgrade back?

What we want:

Cisco Cheng, Laptop Analyst: Macbook: Built-in media card reader (it's ridiculous how every other notebook has it except for the Macbook), LED display, multiple resolutions, HDMI-out, gesture touchpad, and 2GB of memory in its base configuration. Macbook Air: User upgradeable battery, extended battery option, Ethernet port, more ports in general.

Mark Hachman, News Editor: Tablet, LED backlights across the entire line.

Jamie Lendino, Contributing Editor: Discrete graphics in the MacBook line.

Eric Griffith, Senior Writer: If they don't have a sub $900 netbook with Mac OS I think they're shooting themselves in the foot losing that market. People would love that, and they probably should start thinking WiMax for that Baltimore market. Me, I still hope for the iPad, but I'm not sure I even remember why anymore.

PJ Jacobowitz, Camera Analyst: 16 x 9 aspect ratio, option for 1080 resolution, and a dedicated right-click mouse button.

Sacha Segan, Phone Analyst: Integrated AT&T 3G, with an add-on to your iPhone plan.

Lance Ulanoff, Editor-in-Chief: Tablet functionality, touchscreen.

Bill Howard, Contributing Editor: Will Apple finally provide a cellular data chipset with an embedded antenna? Without the embedded antenna, Apple flips off the business users who need the very best wireless connections. I think the embedded antenna is worth +1 bars of service vs. an external device.

Zach Honig, Product Reviews Coordinator: A 399 Netbook with removable battery, and a sub-$1000 convertible tablet or $599 tablet similar to iPod Touch but with a larger display (7-inch) and full Mac OS.

Erik Rhey, Senior Editor: How about one that's not made with toxic chemicals? Or maybe an introductory model (whose price Apple always touts) that doesn't skimp on components and forces you to upgrade immediately?

Tony Hoffman, Reviews Editor: One with OS X and Windows (XP or Vista) and Bootcamp preinstalled.

Me: Honestly, as someone who will likely buy one of these notebooks (after four years my trusty Powerbook finally gave out), I'm primarily hoping for price cuts across the line--some kind of economic downturn special.