Apple PR says next week’s event a "very big deal."

Okay, iPod Nano 4Gs are coming with iPhone-proportioned sideways widescreens. Maybe we’ll see that happen to the Classic. iTunes 8. Interesting, but big whoop. The iPhone 3G was already announced this year: surely Apple’s September 9th event can be lazily snoozed through.

Not so, says Apple PR. They are pulling all the stops out, going as far as to push East Coast and foreign tech journalists to fly to San Francisco next week. It’s going to be a big deal.

Rumors are flying. Crunchgear thinks we’ll see a sub-$1000 touchscreen-based Mac. That may be a touchscreen MacBook, but my guess is we’re talking about a more-than-$1000 touchscreen MacBook Pro: the line is past due for a refresh and a touchscreen would certainly help separate it from its little brother, especially if the MacBook goes aluminum.

What do you hope we’ll see next week? More practically, what do you think we’ll see next week? I’m sort of hoping against the new MBP: I simply can not afford the impulse buy of replacing my current one.