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 a major overhaul to the Mac Mini…..some have even gone so far as to speculate that the Mini as we know it is coming to the end of its lifespan and will be replaced with something categorically similar — but with a different name and striking differences. At this time, however, Rumors is confindent that the Mini, more or less as we know it today, will be around for a while yet — instead of replacing the Mini, we believe an all-new model designed to sit in between the Mini and iMac in the desktop product matrix. [Read more →]
Specifying only “This update addresses compatibility issues with Mac OS X,” Apple released three updates to iWork via Software Update today: Keynote 4.0.2, Pages 3.0.2, and Numbers 1.0.2.
The only more specific change was to Keynote: “primarily addresses performance issues while playing or exporting presentations.” [Read more →]
During Macworld San Francisco, the Leopard development team — shifting its focus from the sprinter’s work of getting 10.5.0 the first point-update out the door to the marathon-runner’s slow and steady work of point update development, bug fixes and supporting both hardware and software engineers from various projects across the Infinite Loop campus in ensuring their products play nice with Leopard — quietly seeded the first major build of 10.5.2, 9C16.
Some readers who have become early adopters of the new “Harpertown” based Mac Pro may recognize this version as the very build which shipped with their machines, though it remains versioned 10.5.1 on those systems. 9C16 is far more than just a collection of Mac Pro-specific support files, however; as a matter of fact, it already sports one of the longest changelogs we’ve seen associated with an initial point-update build in recent memory….. [Read more →]
Posting a $1.58 billion profit on revenues of 9.6 billion and setting all-time company records in virtually every measure of success from strong product sales — both Macs and iDevices — to the substantial margin by which the results beat Wall Street Estimates.
Unfortunately, due a combination of several factors including the looming general recession, shares of AAPL dropped nearly 4% on the day and more than 10% in after-hours trading; all told, Wednesday’s price drop was $16.57(!), bringing AAPL to 139.07 at the close of trading — this down from the previous month’s high of approximately $200 a share. [Read more →]
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 the Macbook Pro is moved over to Penryn sometime in late Winter, the Air won’t be too terribly far behind. It will be a solid update, but we don’t necessarily think that readers should play the waiting game…. [Read more →]
With the upcoming release of the iPhone SDK, users will be able to run 3rd party applications with Apples blessing. However, much of the hacking necessary to do so without the SDK has already taken place, which may have given malware developers a head start. [Read more →]
It seems the recent 1.1.3 iPhone update does more than simply add a few nice features and enable movie rentals. Users are reporting that upon attempting to update a bricked iPhone to the new firmware, the phone comes back to life. [Read more →]
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. [Read more →]
