Kevin Rose on Diggnation has proclaimed that the next iPhone OS, iPhone 3.0 will finally incorporate copy and paste into its software. Kevin goes on to say that this release will bring the interface up to the level of the Palm Pre. Check out the link below for the video of his predictions. Or you can just wait until the 17th and see if his predictions are true.
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According to a recent Wired article, Apple will release a new Mac Mini at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco. If you don’t know what the Mac Mini is, it’s the extremely small entry-level tower computer from Apple and the only computer that is below $1000 from Apple. This news comes after months of speculation that the Mini was headed toward an end of life and it has received a reprieve.
The new Mini will fall into line with the update the Macbooks have recently seen and sport an aluminum casing. The recyclable casing along with its low power consumption will cause it to be labelled the ‘Greenest Mac Ever’. There will be two models like there are now, one at 2.0 GHz and one at 2.3 GHz. The higher end model will also have Nvidia graphics, a decent upgrade for the Mini, and the lower end will have Intel integrated graphics. Finally, the Mini will come with 2GB standard upgradeable to 4GB and a 160GB hard drive standard. Should be a nice upgrade since the Mini hasn’t seen any love since August 2007 and even then it wasn’t a huge update. Hopefully these reports come true!
Full Article: Wired
If it is on a Powerpoint slide it must be true! Right? If this is true, Apple is making good on their promise from the Worldwide Developers Conference 2008 in which they said Snow Leopard was about a year away. Most likely it would make its appearance at Macworld San Francisco 2009 if this release date holds true. Apple’s focus for this release is to fine tune the OS and not so feature packed. There will be added support for multicore systems as well as better handling of GPU processing. Maybe there will be an Apple Supercomputer in the near future if combined with the new Nvidia Tesla GPU, haha!
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The long awaited announcement of an Apple even is here, so what do you think Steve Jobs will bring to us? Hopefully it is much more than the bloated Nano. Other rumors consist of redesigned Macbooks, refresh Macbook Airs, and even tablet Macs. A nice sight would be an updated Mac Mini since it has been a long time since it has gotten any love. Don’t let us down Apple!
Full Article: Engadget
On August 5, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published six of Apple’s newly granted patents which covered such subject matters as speech synthesis, MacBook and iPod lanyard designs, a new iPhone stand/dock, backlighting for notebooks and lastly, compensation circuitry. I don’t own an iPhone, yet, but it appears that the iPhone stand/dock is a yet unreleased design.
Full Article: MacNN
Most of these are already existing products that simply shipped with ‘Patent Pending’ markings. However, the newcoming is the stand. It will be interesting to see if any of these are actually upcoming products which are rumored to appear in September. The Mac rumors have just begun, it is about to get really crazy.
Mac rumor site TUAW has learned that the next version of OS X, 10.6 might be debuted at WWDC. There aren’t any significant upgrades, just focus on security and stability. If this is true, 10.6 could be set to go gold master by December and released January ‘09 at Macworld Expo. 10.6 will see clean break away from PPC as it will be made for Intel only and 64bit.
Full Article: TUAW