Mac OS Rumors is shifting into high gear, with our protracted hiatus over for good and our founder happily experiencing a (at least partial) remission of his chronic illness for the first time in years….and we’ve got some very hot dirt for you as the eve of the first Macworld San Francisco keynote absent Steve Jobs in a decade looms. [Read more →]

Everyones favorite little Mac has been ignored for so long the Mac community is going crazy with rumors that it will be killed off, significantly updated, or merged into another product line. What is true and what is speculation?

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Safari 3.2.1 was released via Software Update overnight, reportedly focusing on bug fixes, but some readers continue to report issues with stability and performance after the update. Stay tuned for an in-depth report on this and ongoing Webkit development shortly.

In the past few hours as readers from northern New England have come online for the morning, the reports have come flooding in: AT&T has finally turned on the 3G upgrade packages installed on its towers from the Portsmouth Traffic Circle/Kittery bridge (Route 95 corridor) to its retail store in Brunswick just off the Route 295 corridor and performance as well as reception are reportedly excellent!

Many readers have been waiting since the day the iPhone 3G shipped for this, and the excitement is palpable. [Read more →]

Apple has marked the 23-inch Cinema HD display as “discontinued” on its Store web site, leaving only a modest stock of refurbished units at $749 USD to run out before the new 24-inch LED “dock” display ships.
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According to reliable sources, OS X 10.5.6 will be released to considerable excitement — well justified, based on our hands-on experiences with the update that will be posted shortly — within the next few days. Details to follow.

According to reliable sources who were among the first to report on the fine inner technical details of the iPhone/iPod Touch for Rumors, the next generation iDevice architecture will likely include two different distinct design classes and perhaps even several subclasses within the iPhone class. If this sounds complicated, it isn’t — it just means the new hand-helds will become more diverse inside and out….and we’ll all benefit in the process. Read on for the details. [Read more →]

….but fear not, the big picture and the big surprises, capital new shovelfuls of the hottest dirt that has sat under embargo or deliberate neglect over the past two months (that itself being one of the “big picture” things we’ll be getting to in the next week or so as we spin up this site’s engines properly) will be coming to you soon enough.

For now, read on to the full article for our first shotgun-blast of details and tidbits that found themselves at the top of our lists as we emerge from the proverbial Bat Cave with our old friends the Bothans and the old-school sources collectively known as the “Drunken Infinite Loop Dwellers Anonymous” (D.I.L.D.A.)…..you ain’t seen nothin’ yet and here’s a (small) taste of what’s to come. [Read more →]

As many readers have noticed, Rumors has not been updated in quite some time. That, and a lot of other things, are about to change. Expect a few posts over the weekend with details, a look at the future of the site….and with the new week, lots of very hot dirt on the way from our considerable backlog! Stay tuned — the best is yet to come….

Late Tuesday evening, Apple released version 2.0.2, a relatively modest update officially containing only bug fixes but unofficially including a number of non-bugfix tweaks to several major components of the onboard operating system as well as its bundled applications in at least three confirmed instances — Settings, Mail and Safari. [Read more →]