Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

Following on from our previous article, Australian based Quantas (who have already placed restrictions on using Dell machines onboard) are now considering the impact of the current Apple battery recall. If you feel the urge to see if your battery might need to be recalled, Apple’s recall page can be found here.

Reports are stating that Apple has just ordered a massively large quantity of flash memory from Samsung and Hynix (twice as much as was purchased during April - July). This strongly suggests an increase in the iPod’s capacity. Apple is now one of the largest players in the flash memory market, and when they place [...]

Apple Computers is denying resellers are large partners the ability to bulk order its Mac Mini desktop computer, which is often an indication that new models are on the horizon. A certain blogger who works for a web hosting firm tried to order a batch of Minis to use as colo-servers, but was turned [...]

Griffin has started shipping Firewave a (US) $99 Firewire device that gives you 5.1 surround sound - with the magic of Dolby Digital on your Mac. Your Mac will need to be running os X 10.3 upwards to take advantage of this

If you’re as obsessed as we are with who’s looking at your website / blog, then the following widget maybe be just what you need. To use this, you’ll need a Google Adwords account, upon which this dashboard app starts to gather a number of stats from any website you have added Google’s magic [...]

Apple has slapped a cool $100m in the hands of Creative for “a paid up license to use Creative’s recently awarded patent in all Apple products.” Apple may be able to get some of that cash back if Creative is successful in licensing their patents to anyone else. However, there is an upside to this [...]

Just when you thought that Dell was the only manufacturer with exploding batteries, it seems that Apple (who also relies on Sony manufactured batteries) is also jumping on the bandwagon, recalling some 1.8 million batteries globally. So, does this mean that certain flights will now ban Dell and Apple laptops from being used with the [...]

OS X - what have we been doing..? 5 major releases - starting in Spring ‘01. Progressions of software - 19 million active OS X users. Apple’s most successful software product ever. Lots of critical acclaim - best and most advanced computers. We have a 6th major release - Tiger on Intel. They have enabled [...]

Transition ends today - just 210 days. No body else could pull this off. One more product…. XServe!! Entirely new. Built on Xeons, Quad performance - similar specs of Mac Pro. Still 1U footprint. New processor is 5x’s faster than the one it replaces! Amazing performance - new features, more space, adds REDUNDANT power supply. [...]

From 1am tonight local time, we’ll be updating our blog with all the juicy gossip live from the Keynote speach, as it comes in to us. So stay tuned for the most anticipated keynote ever from Apple!!