Despite a respectable effort by Sony to build hype around its Vaio R505 laptop in a special “test drive” in front of Grand Central Station here in New York, Apple’s Titanium stole the show again — and it didn’t even have to show up.

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In contrast to his usual secrecy, Jobs is up-front in a press release about Apple Expo Paris: no new hardware will be introduced. “My keynote will focus on Mac OS X v10.1, the super-fast new version of Mac OS X, and our revolutionary new iDVD 2 software, which lets users create their own custom DVDs that can be played on consumer DVD players,” says Jobs. “This has been an incredible new product year for Apple, so we don?t plan to launch any new hardware products in Paris this year.”

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It should come as no surprise that Apple will not announce new hardware in Paris. The new hardware introduced at MacWorld was just so conservative that many think of it as not being new.

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