Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

As of 11:30pm locally in Singapore, the Apple Store is down for maintenance. Don’t expect it to come back up until after Steve’s keynote is finished

As of approx 8:30 AM ET in the US, the “iTunes Store” was unavailable. Any one trying to access it through iTunes, or direct web links saw the follow screen. Reports have surfaced that the iTunes store is unavailable in the UK, Norway, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Greece, Ireland, Japan, [...]

A French newspaper (iGeneration) mentions that the current edition of ‘20 minute day’ [which appears to be another French mag] contains a special Apple Expo booklet. In the middle of this booklet is a photograph of the supposed iPhone. Apparently it takes on the form of an iPod, has a 20Gb Hard Drive.
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Apple has just updated the entire iMac line to include Intel Core Duo processors in each model. They’ve also revised the range to include a new m-a-s-s-i-v-e 24 inch model, as well as lowering the price of the low end model to $999.

The iMac line up now includes 4 models: 1.83 GHz and a [...]

Well, it arrived earlier than we thought, but Apple has quitely updated the Mac Mini Range. The $799 Mini now boasts a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo processor (was a 1.66), and for $599 you get a 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processor (was a 1.5 GHz Intel Core Solo). Pricing remains the same, as [...]

There are a lot of things supposedly being announced at the secret Californian hideout of Steve Jobs on Tuesday, 12th September. We’ve already discussed the new 23″ iMacs, the revamped iPod nano, with scratch resistant metallic case, but the real “meat” of this keynote has only just been uncovered!

Jobs has been haggling with the movie [...]

Microsoft’s upcoming Zune digital media player appears to be little more than a repackaged Toshiba Gigabeat player, which itself has enjoyed only marginal success, one Wall Street analyst says.

Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS 10.4.8 to developers. The build weighs in at 305 MB for intel and 147 MB for PPC. If left as-is, the updates would be some of the largest in history, but many of Apple’s early builds are significantly larger than when they are released to the [...]

Without any fanfare, it would seem that Apple has silently started shipping revised versions of its popular Mac Mini. One customer reports that their Core Solo 1.5Ghz has been upgraded to Core Duo 1.66Ghz, and the HD has increased from 60GB to 100GB. On the box however, the specifications are those of the Mac [...]

Apple is now rumoured to be hosting two special events in September. The first announced was 25th Sept during Photokina 2006 (which is a large photography conference in Germany). This is Apple’s first time attending the conference, and also their first special event there.
We also hear reports of another event on 12th Sept, which [...]