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Tablet event LIVE

Our live coverage of the January 2010 Tablet event
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January 27th Apple Event Preview Part 2: iTunes and Content

Continuing our January 27th Apple Event Preview series, we look at the changes expected in iTunes both as an application and a content delivery service.
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January 27th Apple Event Preview Part 1: The Tablet

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you are probably well aware that tomorrow, Wednesday January 27th, Apple is hosting one of its infamous "Events" and the centerpiece will be a tablet-like iDevice which was, coincidentally, just "confirmed" by the CEO of publisher McGraw-Hill on CNBC minutes before this post was sent to the presses.The big questions are, what will it be like? What sort of tech specs will be under the hood? Based on years of following the Tablet's development through our sources in Cupertino and backed up by grapevine consensus, here's what we're expecting at the heart of tomorrow's announcements.
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It wouldn’t be January without….

....a little fireworks, Cupertino style.
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What’s next for iMac and Mac Pro?

With the recent introduction of long-awaited and -rumored iMacs featuring impressive new 16:9 displays as well as quad core Intel "Lynnfield" processors -- notably the high-end Core i7 model which offers stunning value that crushes virtually all competition, even outpacing the current Mac Pro lineup in many areas while costing half as much with a display included -- many readers have been curious what comes next for the Mac Pro. In this quick overview, soon to be followed by more detailed in-depth reports, we look at the future of both desktops.
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2009 Music Event LIVE Coverage

This page will serve as our live coverage for Apples 2009 Music Event for September 9th. You don't need to refresh this page to see updates, they will appear at the top of the list below automatically.
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Logic Pro 8.0.2 update posted

Apple has posted a version 8.0.2 p Logic Pro; details follow.
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Apple introduces new iMacs clocked at up to 3.06GHz(!)

Although this announcement comes as no surprise to many on the grapevine who have been reporting on it regularly over the past several weeks while most of the Rumors staff was on leave or sabbatical....many in the community expressed great enthusiasm for the new machines which form the backbone of Apple's family of Macs.
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Future macs to include coprocessor chips?

Apple recently made a bid for PA Semi, a semiconductor design company specializing in high performance, low power processors. The company is a licensee of IBMs POWER architecture, previously used by Apple as the PowerPC chip line, leading some to believe that Apple may be moving its Mac line back to PowerPC chips.
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Apple announces new Macbooks, Macbook Pros

As recently predicted by Rumors, Apple has updated the remainder of its laptop line-up following last month's introduction of the Macbook Air.
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Apple updates iDevices – 16GB iPhone, 32GB iPod Touch

Today Apple announced relatively straightforward storage capacity upgrades for both of the "multi-touch" iDevices, doubling the standard versions of each to 16GB and 32GB for the iPhone and iPod Touch, respectively.
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Apple seeds 10.5.2 build 9C23; massive 500MB

Following our recent report on the "Mac Pro build" of OS X Leopard, 9C16 and recent seeds of 10.5.2, Apple has posted a new seed for third party developers to evaluate, 9C23. The already extremely lengthy changelist and fast-growing update package is now over well into the hundreds of megabytes and could eventually exceed 400MB(!), making it the single largest point update to OS X ever.
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