World of Apple

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple will introduce “eye catching” designs for both its laptop offerings. It appears Apple may be on schedule to release Intel machines much earlier than the stated mid 2006.

The report contains information that five Macintel projects are underway and moving at a reasonable pace and Steve Jobs is reportedly leading the pace.

Current information appears to point towards an Intel iBook around April - May and the possibility of a 13-inch widescreen model is high.

As to many peoples predictions AppleInsider reports that the PowerBooks will receive an update before the iBooks around January we reckon. The PowerBooks will reportedly sport built-in iSight cameras and the 12 inch model is too be dropped from the line up.

It appears CBS may be following abc’s example and allowing video content to be bought from the iTunes Music Store. The president of CBS has confirmed that he’s “had talks” with Apple.

Yesterday CBS confirmed that it will be distributing three episodes of “Threshold” through its website.

A startup company known as P.A. Semi is reported to be working on a new family of low power, multicore, PowerPC processors.

The company plans to introduce a dual core 2GHz processor with typical power consumption of around 13 watts. A spokesman for the company had this to say;

“There isn’t a silver bullet to solve the power problem. You just have to have it as a priority all through the design process,” Hayter said. “We’ve applied the methodology whereby if a part of the chip isn’t being used, we won’t clock it.”

The chips are expected to be introduced towards the end of 2006.

Apple is holding a press conference in Sydney tomorrow and it is widely expected that Apple will launch the iTunes Music Store for Australia. Known to be attending is the worldwide head of iTMS and the worldwide head of iPod marketing.

In the past the store has been delayed due to pressure from Sony and Warner, it is unknown whether they have caved in and signed the dotted line.

Earlier in the month on October 7th Apple filed for the trademark “Vingle”. Vingle is described as “Telecommunication services, namely, electronic transmission of streamed and downloadable audio and video files via computer and other communications networks; providing on-line chat rooms, bulletin boards and community forums for the transmission of messages among computer users concerning entertainment, music, concerts, videos, radio, television, film, news, sports, games and cultural events; web casting services; delivery of messages by electronic transmission; provision of connectivity services and access to electronic communications networks, for transmission or reception of audio, video or multimedia content;”

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AppleInsider and ThinkSecret have posted similar claims that the Pro line will receive a boost next Wednesday.

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Yes as we predicted Think Secret has gone back on everything it has said and is now finally admitting that today’s Special Event will be solely for the video iPod. It appears the focus will not be on feature length films but music videos and other short media possibly supplied by the BBC.

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To be kind and make your life much easier we have rounded all of the rumours concerning tomorrow into one neat package. If you’ve got anything to add then please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

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It is being reported on some sites that the iTunes Music Store has not been updated for New Music Tuesday. Supposedly the last time this happened we had iTunes 5.0 on our doorstep, what could it be this time?

MacBidouille has posted some screenshots from a “anonymous source” that point towards the possibility of Quad Processor Intel Macs with Hyperthreading support.

“Without giving much details, those captures shows MacOSX x86 running on a 4 physical CPU-based MacIntel with Hyperthreading enable. One can clearly see 4 physical processors recognized while 8 logical processors are recorded by the CPU monitor.
So MacOSX can really manage without problem any MacIntel based on either physical or logical processors.”

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