As the executives and marketroids did their thing in San Francisco, Apple’s network engineers and software update team were hard at work posting several new packages to the SWU servers….. [Read more →]

Though today’s Macworld keynote has been a blend of pleasant surprises, vindication of one of MOSR’s longest-running rumors (the Macbook Air aka “Thin/Nano”), and excessive optimism that fell an bit flat (AppleTV 2.0 being a software-only, rather than complete, overhaul — though we still expect aTV 3.0 to include the features we had hoped to see today within 3-4 months at the outside)…..it was most definitely one of the most action-packed keynotes we’ve seen in 13+ years of making the pilgrimage to the Moscone Center.

One of the accurately predicted rumors, the “January Update” to the iPhone’s firmware, v1.1.3, has been released with all of the predicted features we’ve seen in various developer/beta releases of the firmware leading up to the Expo. [Read more →]

In somewhat of a let-down — at least relative to rumors posted here and elsewhere about a major hardware revamp which we still strongly believe is coming…..we were simply to optimistic on the timing, it would seem — Steve Jobs has indeed announced “AppleTV 2.0″ but it is not the Blu-ray equipped, totally overhauled device that we had predicted. [Read more →]

A streamlined, wireless backup device designed to complement Apple’s “cable-free 2008″ initiative, about which we have been under heavy embargo due to the very small number of people aware of the project. Though the concept of an 802.11n-based wifi storage device is not new by any means, Apple has brought a number of innovations to the project — not only in the hardware, which is excellent, but in the software which is ground-breaking, and goes well beyond the Time Machine we’ve known to date. [Read more →]

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. [Read more →]

You may notice that the all-new Mac OS Rumors web site is now live….with several static pages still needing updates, and our layout/theme still needing some work — particularly in terms of color choices. [Read more →]

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”….. [Read more →]

Though the new team that has taken the helm of Rumors has been very busy with the new Web site and other behind-the-scenes projects, we are now focused like a laser beam on Macworld Expo coverage! We have more roving reporters and sources covering the Expo than any other newsgathering entity, and several other major Web sites have hired out our team to provide coverage for their publications as well.

We think it is going to be a very exciting day indeed as Steve Jobs takes the stage once again to give us a preview of what 2008 will look like for Apple, Inc. and its loyal fans…..but a lot of the pre-keynote buzz has been way off the mark. Read on for our predictions, and don’t forget — macosrumors.com is always your #1 source for up-to-the-nanosecond coverage of all Apple Events….stay tuned for our intense live updates from Steve’s keynote address and later from the show floor! [Read more →]

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 Expo coverage in 13 years on the air!Though some other rumor-mongers are quitting the “cloak and dagger” game, and others are scaling back their dirt-dishing or posting a lot of off-topic/non-rumor “filler,” Rumors is dedicated more than ever to bringing you the hottest insider info first and best.

MOSR has broken almost every major Apple/Mac news story of the past decade-plus, and become famous — in no small part because of the tremendous print & online press coverage we’ve received over the years — for being the first to bring you the dirt that shapes Apple’s future.

We will be bringing back our reviews, tips & tricks — practical applications of the knowledge gained through rumor-mongering — and anything else we think you’ll be interested in reading, but Rumors will always be a dirt-dishing site first and foremost. We will be opening new Mac-related Web sites following this month’s Macworld Expo…..but for now, our focus is on the complete overhaul of Rumors and making the next 13 years even more amazing than the first!

We intend not only to continue in that tradition, but to improve and expand in 2008. But don’t take our word for it…..check back in a matter of hours to see the all-new Mac OS Rumors!

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 changed in the new Mac Pro…..but not everything the grapevine had been hoping for has arrived just yet.

Today’s update to the Mac Pro and Xserve is without a doubt one of the most anticipated of the past several months, and the numbers bear it out: 20% faster CPU-to-northbridge (Front Side Bus) bandwidth thanks to dual 1.6GHz FSBs, and memory bandwidth is now up to 1.6X faster as dual-channel DDR2-800 ECC FB-SDRAM (up from 667MHz) and an improved memory controller flex their muscles.

The standard package also receives a dramatic upgrade in the graphics department, moving from the previous nVIDIA GeForce 7300GT to the new and powerful ATi Radeon HD 2600XT 256MB card on a PCI Express 2.0 bus which offers a considerably faster pipe for not only the primary graphics card but all five PCIe-2.0 slots in the new Mac Pro. Adding a second Radeon HD 2600XT is only $150 more…..quite a steal when one considers that Other World Computing is still selling the 8X AGP based Radeon X850 XT 256MB card for the first/second-generation PowerMac G5 for $355 USD…..
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