Mac News & Rumours from Singapore

Perhaps riding on the coat tails of the fact that Messieurs Gates & Jobs will be attending the same event, and even speaking together, Palm have decided to release (quote:) “a new category of mobile device) at the D5 event today.
No additional info is available, but it was rumoured back in April this year, that [...]

Wait! Take a deep breath, before you get too excited, or anxious! I can remember this making the headlines last year also, as the two richest computer geeks on the planet head to the D5 event (D: All things digital) this evening.
Bill & Steve will have a joint (read: awkward) session on stage [...]

Apple Inc.’s market cap smashed the $100 Billion barrier for the first time on Wednesday. Shares of the Cupertino based company surged above $116 following a bullish research report released by investment bank Morgan Stanley.

The rumour mills are churning with predictions that Apple is expected to launch revisions to its iMac and MB Pro lines during WWDC.
Gene Munster analyst with PiperJaffray agrees, noting that the last update to the MacBook Pro line was released 209 days ago while Apple has updated its notebook every 182 days on average. The [...]

Reason to buy a Mac #48… The latest update from Norton Anti-Virus resulted in a sickening disaster for PC users in China. The virus database filters identified 2 libraries in the Chinese version of XP, as a potential virus or threat, and blocked them. Unfortunately, as if crashing the system wasn’t enough, this [...]

Blizzard has announced that Starcraft II is a reality, and that it will be released simultaneously on both PC & Mac. Whilst this is not really our thing, I am sure it will delight some people.

A few decades ago, the “hand of god” was attributed to a certain football player, …. but not so any more. Now it rightly belongs firmly attached to the arm of Apple product designer Mr Jonathan Ive. Surely if it weren’t for him, then the iPod may have ended up looking like the Zune…? [...]

Shock. Gasp. Horror. The FCC has approved the iPhone. What does this actually mean for our friends across the ocean..? It means that Apple can now push the phone out legally to retailers to sell. Which also means that the ship date for the iPhone should be on track. Which [...]

Multiple sources are indicating that Apple is going to seed OS X 10.4.10 to developers sometime early next week. We think this is the first time that Apple (at least since launching OS X) has gone past x.x.9 in a version number for their software. In fact, there is some confusion around the actual [...]

The new MacBook is available immediately through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
The 2.0 GHz, 13-inch white MacBook, includes:
13.3-inch glossy widescreen 1280 x 800 display;
2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
667 MHz front-side bus;
1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with [...]