As long-time readers of Rumors know, we were among the first to break the initial rumor of a stripped-down, mid-range Macbook designed to target the “ultraportable” market and further raise the bar with stunning industrial design that couldn’t have come from anywhere but Cupertino.
We have also been among the first to reexamine long-standing rumors of [...]

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According to reliable sources in Cupertino who our Macworld reporting team have been visiting now that the Expo is over, the Macbook Air was originally designed around Intel’s 45-nanometer mobile processors but was instead modified to accept slower-clocked “Santa Rosa/Merom” class Core 2 Duo CPUs at 1.6 and 1.8GHz.
It will take some time, but after [...]

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Sony isn’t taking the release of the Macbook Air lightly, though it may have something to do with Jobs taking shots at the Sony TZ series during the keynote.

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In a recent interview with the New York Times, Steve Jobs gives some candid responses to questions about the recently released Amazon kindle, the Macbook Air, and his thoughts on a CableCARD integrated AppleTV.

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One of the stories which Rumors has most intensely championed over the past year has at last come to pass — the “Macbook Thin/Nano” rumors of the past year were almost exactly on the money. Steve Jobs and crew are demonstrating it right now as we speak, to a stunned crowd.

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The front page of www.apple.com now includes a teaser image for today’s Expo keynote with the tagline “There’s something in the Air”…..

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Rumors, under new management and refocused around a new team of writers who are almost all former (or current!) insider sources, is nearly ready to roll out our all-new Web site! Just in time for our reports on the new Mac Pro & Xserve, an in-depth Macworld San Francisco preview, and our best most intense [...]

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Today Apple announced a dramatic update to both of its professional Macs based on Intel’s high-end Xeon processors; bringing the Mac Pro and Xserve into the 45-nanometer era (all previous Intel Macs are based on 65nm technology; the PowerPC 970 “G5 was 90nm)” and offering up to twice the performance of previous models.
A lot has [...]

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Apple has reported its best second-best quarterly financial results in the company’s history on very strong sales of Macs, iPhones and other iDevices.
If the AppleTV’s lack of an optical drive has been an issue for you, look no further than a soon to be announced update to the popular iDevice for that very issue to [...]

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Apple is reportedly having a growing number of iPhones that experience partial failures of the touch-input system — often starting from the top and sometimes moving down the screen vertically in “rows” roughly equal to the height of the application icons on the “Home screen.” Many users contact Apple and get replacements before the problem [...]

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