Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

These new bad boys kick some serious Xeon Quad Core ass, … running up to 5x’s faster than our old G5 XServes. They’re being installed into Equinix Data Centre on Monday, so we’ll have two DC’s on the go, and be able to fall over to the Equinix DC should the need arise.I don’t think [...]

Add a new Mac to your Mac. Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is packed with over 300 new features, installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have.
Choose a single-user license for home or office (SGD $238). Or if you have more than one Mac at home, choose the five-user Family Pack [...]

Sources close to the development of Leopard are saying the code for the upcoming OS is now frozen, and a Gold Master (GM) has been built and delivered to manufacturing.
The build is said to be mac OS X Leopard 9A581 - the previously hinted GM build released internally at Apple over the weekend.
Meanwhile, as I [...]

We have been trying to come up with a solution to expand the capabilities of the iPhone so developers can write great apps for it, but keep the iPhone secure. And we’ve come up with a very. Sweet. Solution. Let me tell you about it. An innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices… [...]

There is one other thing we wanted to tell you about that we think you might like. Safari… it’s been a wonderful success, there are now over 18m Safari users. It’s climbed from 0 to 5% across the entire internet. If you look at the world of browsers, IE is about 78%, Ffx 15%, Safari [...]

New movies widgets, that looks up shows times at cinemas (US only I presume). Also allows you to view trailers inside the widget, which is pretty cool.

Boot Camp. It’s pretty amazing, since we put it out a year ago we’ve had over 2.5m downloads of the beta. With Leopard Boot Camp is built-in. The latest and greatest version is built in… no more CD-burning to install drivers. This is a really great complement to Parallels and VMware. There are three great [...]