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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It turns out your iPhone could be running almost twice as fast! One of our Xerces sister sites, The Black Hole general-interest discussion forum, recently tackled a topic that has come up numerous times on Mac OS Rumors: Is the latest mainstrean media news about “Mac Malware” for real, or just greedy security companies looking to make a buck?!

Rumors has confirmed that a new, larger AppleTV flagship model will be added to the lineup along with two enhanced versions of the existing AppleTV devices — all sporting larger hard drives. The new “AppleTV Unity” as it is sometimes referred to at Infinite Loop, will include a faster Intel CPU, enhanced media decoding DSP chipset, more RAM, an optical drive and numerous other improvements over the “standard” models. Details to follow: including hot dirt on whether the new AppleTV Optical Drive will support HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or both (?!)…..stay tuned!As for long-awaited Flash support on iPhone, one of our senior reporters is talking to a trusted old-school Apple source about that today and we expect an in-depth article to be posted this evening!

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 be addressed. Also, the entry-level model will be dropped to $249 with a 60GB or maybe even 80GB HDD (depending on market conditions about six or seven weeks from now), and two other models at $299 and $399 sporting 120-160 and 200-250GB drives respectively. The optical drive may not be available on all models, another vagary of our most recent source reports on the subject. More on the AppleTV 2.0 and its across-the-board hardware/software upgrades soon.

We have the privilege of being able to exclusively report on information provided to Mac OS Rumors by one of our oldest and most reliable sources in Cupertino: the Mac Mini is dead…..Long Live the Mac Nano!

The exact naming and marketing details are not as firm in our sources’ estimation, since he’s not an Apple Marketroid(TM)….but the new Mini will be as small in the horizontal as an internal optical drive will allow, and a little over 2/3 the height. Overall volume will be shrunk almost 25%, weight by about 20% and an all-new enclosure will be strikingly different from the design that has been the Mini’s defining feature since its introduction.

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 worsens beyond the uppermost ‘row,’ but the problem does appear to be progressive in most cases if left uncorrected. More on this as reports come in.

As our contributors and writing staff have had the chance to use Apple’s new Keyboards in both Wired and Wireless forms, it’s remarkable how much they match the prototypes we’ve been talking about for months….but also striking how different they are from anything that has come from Apple or anyone else in the past. We’ll be talking much more about our experiences with these keyboards soon — suffice to say that if you want a guide to the look and feel of Macs and iDevices to come in the next year or so, look no further.

As a matter of fact, several of our sources have been repeatedly pointing out since the very first leaked pictures of the new Apple Keyboards appeared that prototypes of a next-generation Mac Mini (due in about 3-5 months, a possible Macworld SF announcement in January), the Macbook Thin/Macbook Nano that we’ve been talking about since before the first Macbooks even shipped, and even the next generation Mac Pro & Xserve….will all include industrial design changes inspired by similar ideas to what we have seen in the iPhone and the new Keyboards.

The Macbook Thin, a product line that has been simmering at Infinite Loop since the beginning of the Intel Era and the End-of-Life (EOL)’ing of the mid-range Powerbook G4 12-Inch….has been waiting for several advancements to arrive. Now that these are all in place, the final prototypes for the new mid-range Apple ultraportable laptop are not so different from Intel’s recent reference designs for such machines based around its 2.2 and 2.4GHz Santa Rosa “Core 2 Duo Mobile” chipsets.

As predicted by Rumors, the new iMacs sport Core 2 desktop CPUs that are substantially faster at a given clock rate than the mobile Santa Rosa chips used in the latest Macbook Pros.

An entry-level model clocks in at 2GHz, while the other standard models offer 2.4GHz — with an optional upgrade to a 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme CPU for a massive boost of muscle.

Early reports from trusted industry analysts suggest that in the configuration Apple is using, with a FW800-enabled chipset that delivers substantially improved memory, FSB and interconnect/northbridge bandwidth over previous generation iMacs…..the 2.4GHz Duo model could outperform the 2.4GHz Macbook Pro and previous 2.33GHz iMacs by upwards of 50% in average real-world tasks, up to 120% in certain CPU/bandwidth-intensive operations, and the ATi Radeon X2400 (128MB XT on the entry-level model, 256MB Pro on the 24-in) simply crushes previous generation GPUs with benchmark numbers that are two full generations ahead of the X1600 and GeForce 7600 GT used in Core 2 Mobile iMacs.

The optional 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme upgrade hasn’t yet been benchmarked in depth (we’ll be eagerly awaiting word from our friends at BareFeats & XLR8YourMac!) with the chipset that Apple is using, but suffice to say that it will easily be a full generational leap in CPU performance — expect more details on this and all sorts of post-Event reporting as the afternoon gives way to evening and even more in-depth reports should be posted late tonight.

With the new keyboard, revamped enclosure, powerful new specs and iLife ‘08 on board, these new iMacs are undoubtedly going to sell like hotcakes. In fact, we’re in the market for at least one high-end model ourselves to report on for this site and several others in the Xerces network!

Stay tuned for much more up to the minute coverage of the aftermath of today’s Apple Event and the continuing frenzy on the grapevine over the upcoming updates to the Mac Mini, Macbooks and Xserve as well as the amazing 6G iPod about which we have hard-hitting, exciting and completely EXCLUSIVE information to report in the next few days as a long-standing source embargo is lifted and we can at last unveil the incredible details of this long-awaited iDevice!

You don’t want to miss a beat…..so don’t! Check back often and especially late at night when our updates are at their freshest — plus there’s a major site update with many new/revamped sub-pages on the way so make Rumors a frequent stop in your online day from here on out, you won’t be disappointed!

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