45 minutes until Apple's just-announced,

45 minutes until Apple’s just-announced, invite-only “press event” (promising “exciting announcements,” of course). Everybody expects a new iBook, since the old ones have disappeared from retail channels & the Apple Store alike, but beyond that it’s anybody’s guess. ZDNet rounds up the rumors that seem grounded in reality, and if that’s not enough reading for you then keep an eye on MacSurfer for the latest headlines from the best of the Mac news sites.

I’d really love to know who gets invited to these things – I wonder how Apple treats sites like MacCentral and Macintouch which have all but replaced the mainstream media as the papers of record – so to speak – in terms of Apple news.