World of Apple

AppleInsider has learned that Apple plans to update both the MacBook and MacBook Pro before the Holiday season.

The reports claims that all the models of MacBook are ready with Core 2 Duo processors and all that’s left is for Apple marketing to pull the trigger.

It appears that the ship date for said notebooks is unknown and could be as late as November.

AppleInsider also speculates on the specifications of the upcoming MacBook line and expects the specs to be similar to the current line-up due to Merom (Core 2) being clocked very similarly. Although a higher clocked MacBook Pro is expected with a clock speed of 2.33GHz.

Reports around the Internet today point towards plans for Google to supply video for Apple’s iTV.

Is it possible that when iTV ships next year, you may also be able to choose a menu item called Google Video, and then zip through the best of the thousands of user-submitted videos on the search giant’s service? Google’s consumer product chief, Marissa Mayer, tells me that indeed, the two companies are engaged in talks. Reports Newsweek

ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple will be able to produce the much anticipated “true video iPod” by October in preperation for the Holiday Season.

ThinkSecret believes that the recent update and price drops of the iPod line, leaves room for an addition to the popular MP3 player line. They believe an early release can be expected, despite technological hurdles.

Instead of usurping the just-updated 5G iPod, this new iPod, boasting a 3.5-inch widescreen display, would be pedaled as its own product line.

Apple’s $50 price cut of the 5G iPod, to $249 and $349, certainly leaves room in the line-up for a new top-end iPod, while the substantial improvements in iPod battery life delivered by Tuesday’s update means Apple has undoubtedly figured out how to power the larger display and dynamic interface without compromising portability.

ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple will be able to produce the much anticipated “true video iPod” by October in preperation for the Holiday Season.

ThinkSecret believes that the recent update and price drops of the iPod line, leaves room for an addition to the popular MP3 player line. They believe an early release can be expected, despite technological hurdles.

Instead of usurping the just-updated 5G iPod, this new iPod, boasting a 3.5-inch widescreen display, would be pedaled as its own product line.

Apple’s $50 price cut of the 5G iPod, to $249 and $349, certainly leaves room in the line-up for a new top-end iPod, while the substantial improvements in iPod battery life delivered by Tuesday’s update means Apple has undoubtedly figured out how to power the larger display and dynamic interface without compromising portability.

MacRumors & ThinkSecret are reporting that the long-awaited Apple Phone will most likely be released in Early 2007.

Despite many rumors and reports of an “iPhone Release” this year, Apple is said to be facing “significant technological hurdles” in their attempts to create a entirely new type of cell phone.

ThinkSecret says… Apple has scaled back its ambitions and has opted to go with several off-the-shelf parts for what will be the first of at least two or three different phones that sources say Apple hopes to deliver in 2007.

Apple is said to be engineering the Apple Phone to include a 3 Megapixel Camera, 2.2 Inch Display, and iTunes/iPod Integration.

Currently the storage capacity of the phone is unknown, but sources say that the phone will be able to hold significantly more than the 100 song limit in the current Motorola iTunes-Integrated phones.

MacShrine and MacOSXRumors both believe that Apple will release an update to it’s MacBook Pro line-up at Photokina later this month.

According to MacShrine Apple will upgrade the MacBook Pro’s to include 2.33 and 2.16GHz Merom processors. No other details are supplied.

Apple today released an update to Boot Camp. The update pushes Boot Camp to version 1.1.1 and mainly offers support for newer Intel Macs.

Boot Camp 1.1.1 update addresses:

• Support for the latest Intel-based Macintosh computers
• Easier partitioning using presets for popular sizes
• Ability to install Windows XP on any internal disk
• Support for built-in iSight cameras
• Support for built-in microphones
• Right-click when pressing the right-hand Apple key on Apple keyboards
• Improved Apple keyboard support including Delete, PrintScreen, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys

As reported back in August, MacWorld today received further confirmation and Apple has now officially handed out invitations to the event to be held at Photokina on September 25.

As previously reported the invitation points directly at an update to Aperture.

To clarify with this mornings confusion MacWorld.com produced a publishing mistake which caused us to report a second Special Event, this is no longer the case, only one event.

Invitation to September 25 Special Event

Mac Rumors offers preview of Apple Phone (artist rendition)

Mac Rumors is reporting that a reliable source has provided details of prototypes of the Apple Phone.

The description points towards a look similar to that of the iPod with the preservation of the click wheel. The screen takes a vertical orientation with the lower portion of the phone sliding down to reveal a numeric pad. The phone is said to be black with a chrome rear.

At an investment conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday, senior vice-president of retail, Ron Johnson told attendees that Apple will introduce a new design feature at a retail store later in the month.

The new feature draws from the Fifth Avenue Store but Johnson offered no further details other than that the new features will be unveiled on September 23 at stores Providence (RI) and Columbia (Md).