Apple is preparing something...but what?

It took us some times to control everything, but it seems that there are not much stocks of any Apple products in Europe!
It never happened before, networks between the European distributors for Apple and the local AppleCenters are almost empty. Beside some eMacs and PowerBooks, there is no stocks from the Powermac G5 to the Mac mini, the same for the iBook and the of course the iPod.
Knowing that the Chinese New-Year is not in September, that usually Stocks are high after an Apple Event such as the Paris AppleExpo, and that September is the end of a financial quarter, one can seriously ask what's going on...
In the past Apple has never renew its entire products portfolio at once. That will be something new.
Did they decide of such a strategy to boost sales (especially hardware) that have been strongly affected by the MacIntel announcement?
We do not know but at least in Europe the RefurbStore is supposed to be opened till October 3rd... and October 4th is next Tuesday, the usual Apple's day for new announcements...