MacWorld Expo San Francisco starts Tuesday with Steve Jobs’ keynote speech.

For us Mac geeks, Macworld is like Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, Kwanzaa, and our Birthday all rolled into one. It has historically been the big event where Apple announces new products, both hardware and software. In recent years though, they’ve been trying to get away from only making announcements at MW.

Some of the rumored products that are rumored to be announced Tuesday are:

G5 based Xserves in both 1U and 3U enclosures

Faster Powermac G5s

an “iBox” which is rumored to be a Apple produced set-top box (think TiVo done the Apple way, with integration into the iLife Apps)

Revised iLife Apps

“mini-pods” – smaller, cheaper iPods currently rumored to be in 1 and 4 gigabyte capacity.

I have no idea about the reliability of these rumors, I read them all on various rumor sites like: macrumors.com appleinsider.com and thinksecret.com