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Apple rumor roundup: aluminum Mac minis and supersized iPod touches
Engadget —
... related to the TechCrunch rumor, a Taiwan news site claims Quanta Computers is expecting to add Apple and Sony (is that you, Vaio P?) as clients for manufacturing netbooks in 2009. For those playing along at home, at some point next year we should expect a bigger iPod touch, a netbook, a smaller iPhone, a revised iMac, a revised Mac mini, and absolutely no love at all for the Mac Pro. Read - Large form iPod touch to launch Fall '09 Read - Rumor watch: new Mac mini go for launch Read - Quanta expects zero YoY NB shipment ...
Rumor : New Mac mini to Launch at Macworld 2009 ?
SlashGear —
... from the “insider sources”; it’s a rumor at best, TUAW believed that the Mac mini will get on stage next week at Macworld. Details are thin but they expected three major changes : ...
More versatile Mac mini expected at Macworld
AppleInsider —
... Published: 11:00 AM EST A much anticipated update to Apple's tiny Mac mini desktop computer is believed to be a lock for next week's Macworld Expo, according to some last minute reports. TUAW is citing its own sources who say the new models will sport a revised enclosure that more closely conforms to materials used throughout the better part of Apple's product line, namely aluminum and black plastic. Legacy Mac minis have employed a mixture of grey and white plastic. The report also corroborate ...
Rumor: Mac Mini getting a makeover next week
CrunchGear —
... Time to throw away your old Mac Minis, friends, because new ones are coming next week. TUAW has on good authority (read “some guy told them”) that the new minis will have SATA optical drives that can be replaced with hard drives and that they will look more like the MacBooks with sexier styling. ...
Rumor: New Mac Minis Dressed in Sexy Aluminum
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... the Mac Mini will be
launched at Macworld Expo 2009.
Our source could not disclose specification details on the device, but we predicted
the Mac Mini would be composed of aluminum (and perhaps be marketed as "The greenest Mac ever"). We also guessed the rumored
Mac Mini will ship with Nvidia chipsets -- which corroborates with a
MacRumors report that discovered strings of code referring to an
unreleased Mac Mini shipping with an Nvidia chipset.
Rumor Watch: New Mac mini go for launch [TUAW] Photo: Apple ...
RUMOR: Apple’s new Mac mini ready for launch
MacDailyNews —
... is set to be announced at Macworld Expo 2009 next week," Steven Sande reports for TUAW. "While many details are still vague -- we still have no idea if the dimensions of the new mini are at all different from the existing model -- some details are starting to emerge," Sande reports. Details such as an optional second internal hard drive in place of a SATA optical drive and the new mini's case will be composed of "black plastic and aluminum," Sande reports. More in the full article here .
New Mac Mini at Macworld, Will Look Like iMac + Time Capsule [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
TUAW has the most complete description yet of the new Mac mini widely rumored/expected to launch at Macworld. It'll be topped with iMac-esque black plastic instead of white, and have a lip like Time Capsule. The lip conceals the Mac mini's optical drive slot, which is useful now since TUAW says that the new drive will be SATA, meaning it can be swapped out for a second hard drive, probably as a custom build option. The second drive is boon to the business crowd that uses Mac minis in server farms (like this one), since it not only adds more ...
Mac Mini update at Macworld seems likely, will let you swap storage drives
Obsessable News Feed —
... look. The Macworld conference takes places in San Francisco next week, and as we've reported before, it will be Apple's last. That doesn't mean there won't be big announcements, though. One of the rumors bouncing around: a revamped version of the Mac Mini, the ultra-tiny, minimalist desktop in Apple's line of personal computers. It hasn't been updated in over a year, so it's overdue.
It's looking like this rumor is going to come true. The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Apple Insider both wrote today that they've received ...
Summary of Latest Rumors
HardMac.com —
... - As we previously indicated it, the Mac mini will be refreshed. Beside the adoption of the GeForce 9400M chipset, it might feature a second HD instead of its SuperDrive as a BTO. It should also feature metal enclosure, marking the end of plastic for all Apple's branded hardware (as the new iMac will also be Alu based, similarly to the MacBook unibody). ...
Mac News Round-Up, 1 Jan 2009
MacObsession —
... The Apple Mac mini has not been updated in a long while. Every time Apple holds an event, the Mac mini is sure to be in the line up of rumours. There are very little details this time around, but we could possibly see a second hard drive slot, and a similar look to Time Capsule, in a black plastic + aluminium casing. ...
TUAW reports on Mac Mini change of color/design
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... TUAW is reporting that the Mac Mini will now be a little black and aluminum box which will match the color scheme of the iMac. The optical drive will now be a option according to the site and the lip of the box will partially conceal the nature of the optical drive much like the Time Capsule. While we are still trying to figure out exactly what this will look like, it does make some sense to move in that direction. ...
New Mac Mini, the Woz expected at low-key Macworld
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... be representing third-party hardware maker Axiotron, known for its line of Modbook Mac tablets. Analysts are predicting that we won't see any major product launches Tuesday morning—and indeed, it looks like Apple is doing its best to tamp down expectations for the keynote. Anyway, here's a quick rundown of the latest predictions: New Mac Mini, updated iMacs There seems to be a general consensus that we'll see revamped Mac Mini come Tuesday's keynote, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog has the (purported) details . Among them: A SATA optical drive that can be swapped out for a ...
Oh, One More Thing … C’mon Out Steve
Digital Daily —
With just days to go before 25th Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco kicks Tuesday morning, speculation about what Apple (AAPL) may or may not unveil during senior vice president Philip Schiller’s keynote address is mounting. Among the rumored possibilities:
A preview of Snow Leopard,, the next iteration of Mac OS X
A long-overdue update to the Mac Mini
New iMacs
A Time Capsule home media server
Beyond that, there are rumors of an Apple tablet circulating once again. And ...
Top 10 Macworld rumors for 2009
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... Rumors of this memory upgrade go back even further. It was supposed to happen in August, then in September, and then before Christmas. With memory prices falling, time is more than ripe.
5. New Mac mini. Rumors of the most affordable Mac’s imminent demise have given way to a flood of new specs, among them 2.0 or 2.3 GHz Core 2 Duo processors, NVIDIA graphics platform, dual display outputs and dual drives that can be configured every which way.
4. New iMac. Some inspired sleuthing in ...
Rumor Roundup: Apple’s Final Macworld
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... up in the air. TUAW explained what they thought were upcoming design changes for the Mac mini, but the information doesn’t seem very concrete, as a contradicting report ...
Roll Up For The Pre-Show Show!
Cult of Mac —
... slaked our thirst for actual Apple product news in recent weeks:
iWork as a cloud app? I don’t think so. Well, iMovie then. Whaaaa? I can really see my ISP going crazy happy about people editing movie files over their pipes. More crazy than happy, though.
iPhoto as an iPhone app? My iPhone crashes often enough as it is…
How about a Red iPhone? I fear not with that font, dear friends, not with that font
Updated Mac minis? Yes! Yes please!
Iiiiiin short: lots of waffle and claptrap. ...
Macworld Rumor Aftermath: What We Know Now
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... of the dual display support. TUAW provided there own take regarding the purported changes, yet were stifled by an opposing report. Bottom line: no updated Mac Mini appearance at Macworld 2009 and the future of the desktop remains unclear. ...
A Post-Macworld Apple Event? History Would Seem to Suggest So
Digital Daily —
... , though it was widely believed they would. After all, both are long overdue for a refresh. And there’s some evidence that Apple has been planning one. ...
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