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what's good brian Tong here and welcome to the apple byte for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple now I'm in Hawaii right now getting my tan on a whole lot of good coming my way and it looks like a whole lot of good coming soon for the Apple by nation because we're breaking down everything you can expect to see at Apple's spring-ford event on monday marks the 9th at ten a.m. pacific time now the obvious no-brainer is that will finally find out the pricing for all the Apple watch models we pretty much know the Apple watch sport will start at 349 and that's probably just for the smaller thirty eight millimeter design apple said so so let's peg the 42 millimeter Apple watch sport at 399 but after that what will we see the stainless steel one go for you know I'm dreaming they keep it at 499 but the guess I'm going for is that Apple will push it to 549 and 599 just because now there's also a lot of guesses that are putting the 18 karat gold apple watch edition at anywhere from five thousand dollars to 10,000 or even higher Apple's even prepping retail stores with specialized safes to hold them and scales to weigh them if someone returns one and tries to remove some of its gold content it's just too scary to guess this one so we're gonna put them at 5k + for our pricing guesses but if you really want to go all out with the bling-bling the luxury and tech modification company brick has announced their line of luxe watches that are pimped out Apple watches now they range from a single row of diamonds at half a carat to a fully emblazoned 12 carat diamond Omni edition that will cost up to 75 thousand dollars it's the watch for the point 1 percenters will also get more details about the Apple watch we know what it looks like and we know some of the things that can do but we haven't truly seen it in action now we expect to see features they've been keeping under wraps like the ability to control your Apple TV they briefly showed us how the watch can act as a viewfinder for your camera so you won't have to rely on strangers taking horribly framed or blurry pictures for you which is about ninety percent of the time there's also a walkie-talkie feature that to Apple watch users with iPhones can use for that Dick Tracy quick style conversation and if you thought blue tools we're annoying it's going to look weird if you're talking to your wrist like a spy you know actually now that I think about it yeah I want to talk into my wrist like a spy now we expect to see even more than this and a deeper dive of the features we already know about as for an official release date macrumors sources believe the release will happen in the beginning of april instead of the end Apple is planning to begin moving Apple watch inventory to centralize distribution points in the US during the first few days of the month with a release possibly coming during the first week of April between the 6th and the 10th that's just a few days after my birthday so feel free to send one my way now what else did we expect to see macbooks that's right timing would suggest the rumored macbook air 12-inch with Retina display will be unveiled but we don't know this for sure or a refresh to the macbook air line across the board or both but I guarantee we'll definitely see something new with apple's laptop line specifically because they've invited seen its own dan ackerman our mac and laptop editor to be in attendance at the spring forward event they've done this in the past so really it's a no-brainer now for the 12 inch retina air all rumors have pointed to a new design that's even thinner than the current airs a fanless design retina display the new broadwell chipset a redesigned a buttonless trackpad and a reversible USB port for connectivity this is a product I'm personally excited on seeing myself now that's a lot of stuff already and I don't expect them to pack that much more in but what are some of the sleepers that we might see what about Apple's beats music service it's been six months since their acquisition a recent report says they've hired the BBC's number one DJ Zane Lowe who could be doing some content or will Apple actually have a live radio station as part of the service we still don't know anything really about it reports say Apple has been eyeing to make it a five dollar monthly service but somewhere under the 999 price point of their competitors I'm hoping we hear something it doesn't mean we will but it's still Spotify and Pandora are dominating the streaming music services also I don't think we'll see anything in the form of the ipad pro the Apple product that I'm the most excited for because of how I use my iPad it really deserves its own event and is more likely coming with an entire iPad line refresh and Apple TV fans we still won't see anything until we hear real news that Apple is locked down the proper content deals to create its own ala carte service sling TV has done it with our $20 internet web TV service Apple still isn't there yet but my friend no-show Tongass and I still believe it's coming this year why yes yes it's not a song it's going to be a fun event and there's a lot of growing hype around the Apple watch but I'm still not high on the watch I've said this over and over the past year I'll be getting one to use and try out I know I'm going Apple watch stainless steel back with a link bracelet because come on that looks pretty sick but they are really going to have a hard time convincing me that I need one that it will make me replace my current watch and that I'll wear it and charge it every day alright that's going to do it for this week you can always email us at the apple byte at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong and tell me why you think the apple watch will be a success I'll flop or somewhere in between thanks for watch it will catch you all next time for another bite of the Apple