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Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup
With Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event. The biggest news about Macworld came early when Apple anno...
Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
apple.com — January 5, 2009 Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs Dear Apple Community, For the first time in... a decade, I m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. Unfortunately, my decision to have ... (more) Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs
Apple: iWork 2009
Apple: iWork 2009
iWork.com — Store Mac iPod + iTunes iPhone Downloads Support Search Meet the next generation of notebooks. The new... 13-inch MacBook. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro. Watch the new MacBook video. Hot News Headlines Read the latest news and information from Apple. The ... (more) Apple: iWork 2009
Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini due shortly
appleinsider.com — Apple as early as Tuesday will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and... a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA, AppleInsider has been able to independently confirm. (more) Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini due shortly
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MacWorld Rumor Roundup Roundup
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... MacRumors: iMac and Mac Mini most likely. 17" MacBook Pro with fixed battery. iLife in The Cloud. Personal Snow Leopard demo from Schiller. "Unsure" about iPhone Nano and big Cinema Displays, and No on Mac Pro updates. Home servers: "no-one knows." Brings up Apple Tablets just to remind us that it's not going to happen. ...

Today's entertainment: First Jobs-free keynote since 1996
TechBlog — ... version of iWork, Apple's productivity suite, will feature Web-based applications . • We may get a release date for Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, and it could come sooner rather than later . • And as I said in my column today , I think Jobs may make a surprise appearance during the keynote. He may introduce Schiller, close out the keynote, or appear as a giant floating head on the big screen. You can find more rumor roundups at Wired , MacRumors and Ars Technica . I'll update this post after the keynote's over and we'll ...

News Bits: Macworld Keynote - Will It Be a Surprise or Disappointment?
Contentinople: — ... but it's expected to also cut DRM on songs from the other three big-four labels: Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music. Possibly even bigger news , and the likely reason the labels were willing to give up their DRM: iTunes is also expected to add flexible pricing. According to CNET, pricing will be broken down into three tiers: older songs, mid-range songs (newer, but not big hits), and current hits. Further details haven't yet been reported. According to the blogosphere , you can also expect: You can get live updates on the address at The New York ...

Apple: Here come the iMac rumors
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... Mac Pros Oct 31, 2008: Whispers Suggest a Mid November iMac and Mac Mini Update Nov 03, 2008: Apple: No New Products Before Holidays Nov 19, 2008: Apple Waiting on Quad-Core Desktop CPUs for January? Dec 19, 2008: Evidence that Next iMacs and Mac Minis to use NVIDIA Chipsets Dec 23, 2008: New iMacs Shipping January 2009? 01/04: Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup 01/12: Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor ...

Apple’s new Macs: Marketing by spy shot
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... — the first since the summer of 2007 — began circulating, faded for awhile, and then picked up again last fall in advance of January’s Macworld, when several many analysts and journalists were certain a new version was coming. ...

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