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Shame on me, none of my top 3 rumors is true. Steve Jobs surprised us again: no new iBook (although it is way overdue), no Mac Mini Media Center. But A NEW POWERBOOK MacBook Pro (the new name that stands for the Macintel era).



The design is almost the same like the latest aluminium ones, but the specs are really promising: faster, thinner, brighter, lighter etc. The CPU: a Intel Core Duo with 1,67/1,83 GHz, that is up to 5 times faster than the 1,67 GHz G4. Read the full specs on apple.com and the first Hands-on at Engadget.

Secondly: the new iMac.



The Design hasn't changed neither, but it has the Core Duo as well, which seems to be three times faster like the latest G5 processor in the iMac. The specs are on Apple's Webpage.

In other words (and that applies for iMac and Powerbook): G4 and G5 Macs are slow! Today we can finally admit.

What's coming up next? The MacBook as a replacement for the iBook? Won't last too long...

PS: This guy seems to have some good sources at Apple. All of the guesses he posted on his weblog became true!

In the third issue of Forrester Magazine Harris Collingwood, a researcher at Forrester, writes about Apple and five reasons for their coolness. Quiet interesting and kind of guideline for everybody who wants to be cool.

Here are the first four:

1. Great Products
No doubt: the products by Apple are great. Some products (as the Cube or the Newton) are even too great. But for the public image these products prove: Apple always works hard, just to get the best.

2. Decide on your Story, then stick to it
Since the »1984« ad, Apple consistently has claimed to be different from the other impersonal computer companies. Repetition pays. Apple's story has firmly established itself in the minds of the press. Say what you are. Stick to it, again and again.

3. Choose your friends well
Apple always did a good job in choosing »friends«. For example Bono saying the iPod is »the most beautiful object art in the music since the Electric Guitar«. Or Carrie in »Sex & the City« who constantly uses her Powerbook for writing her column.

4. Choose your enemies better
Apple's 2,5 percent market share looks less like a sign of weakness and more like an emblem of virtue. It has always been persistent against the big enemies, first IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s.

Read the article

1. iBook 13,3'' widescreen
The iBooks have been updated in July 2005, so they have to get an update very soon. Hopefully it's time for the first Intel-based Apple Computer.

2. Intel powered Mac Mini with Frontrow
Would be very nice for the livingroom. The best would be a combination of the Mac Media Center with new Cinema Display.

3. 42'' and 50'' Cinema Displays
Have you ever seen the 30'' Cinema Display? And now imagine: 50 f***ing inches. I'm completlely sure, I will never have enough money to own one, but the imagination is already enough to begin drooling.



One more thing? iLife '06, iPod G5, Airport Express video streaming... We will see.

Unfortunally there won't be a live coverage as Quicktime stream, but I recommend Engadget or Macrumors who both gonna have excellent text coverages.

According to ifo Apple Store Apple's gonna open up a store in Rome. Who gives a shit? I want to know, why they ignore the german users. I need a real Apple Store in Germany! I hate Saturn with its crappy Apple Corners.

Update: Apple Store Rome is confirmed.

Various rumors sources around the web report, that the new iBooks with Intel processors are almost there: they could be introduced in January at MacWorld SanFrancisco.

According to Think Secret, Apple plans to launch a service for streaming video. The heart of the system will be a new Mac Mini (possibly with Intel proecessor?) and a pimped Frontrow software. Video will be downloadable to the iDisk and the iPod Video only.



[via Think Secret]

Macintouch published this Report on the reliability of Apple laptop computers.
The report encompasses 41 Powerbook and iBook models over 7 1/2 years. All of these models are capable to run Mac OS X.

http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/laptops.html

Wanna see the new 4inch iPod, hiMac or PowerfulBook? Then take a tour through the japanese Applele site!

(via thedesignweblog)

Mac OS X hat nun auch ein integriertes CVS. Für interne Arbeiten an grösseren Projekten sicher lohnenswert mal, drüber zu schauen: Version Control with CVS on Mac OS X.