World of Apple

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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A new site has appeared at Apple.com and is named the Student Gallery it allows students to post media content created using Apple hardware and software.

Here is Apple’s description of the site:
“The Student Gallery is the web’s premier collection of student-produced digital media projects. Students create and post their movies, pictures, songs, and presentations. Students can promote their own work, preview other projects, and comment on what their peers create.”

Just after the release of the iPod nano it came to the worlds attention that Apple had scored a mega-deal on NAND flash memory. It now appears that South Korean Trade Commission are looking into the legal affairs between Apple and Samsung and whether they engaged in “unfair trading practices”.

It appears that Think Secret has conflicting views to what AppleInsider and yours truly (WOA) have to say about next Wednesdays big event.

Think Secret reckon next weeks event with hold new Power Macs and Powerbooks, but they are think on details but stated that Apple would not want to get in the way of nano sales but are making a concerted effort to prevent the slip of Pro line machine sales.

On the other hand they could be bang on as it appears the video iPod and video Airport Express could be unveiled in London.

During a news broadcast on BBC 6 Music they announced that “Apple is set to unveil a new video iPod at the BBC Television centre on October 12th. The company is expected to reveal details of the new MP3 and video player as well as video bundles to be available from the companies iTunes store.

Our take on this, it looks like someone wasn’t told to keep shut about this one, oops!

Apple has announced what its calling a “One More Thing” event to be held on Wednesday 12th October just one day after the Quarter 4 Financial Results Webcast.

Special Invites have been handed out to selected members of the media, this event is very similar to previous ones in which the iPod photo and U2 Special Edition iPod were announced.

Here comes those 5G iPods with Video and wireless.

What would you like to see at the event, we want to here your comments!

Apple will be hosting a webcast at 2PM PT/5PM ET or for everyone else in the world 10PM GMT.

As of recent World of Apple has received some more information relating to the 5th Generation iPod’s that were earlier pointed to by Appleinsider.

Expect the new iPods too be thinner than they currently are but no where near the size of the nano, the click wheel will be smaller to cater for a larger screen.

The line will be very much feature differentiated with some iPods including Video functionality and Wireless connections, as rumoured back in July Airport Express will be upgraded to allow video streaming and video out to a TV and the feature will be added to standard Airport base stations.

Expect capacities of 40GB, 60GB and the possibility of a 80GB model.

Our information points to a date of 11th October although Apple may wish to release earlier with October 7th being a possibility.

It is reported that Apple released several pre-release items of software to developers late last week, in which one caused a rumble amongst the Mac world.

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Appleinsider has posted an article in which it believes Apple will release the 5th Generation iPods and upgrades to the PowerMac and PowerBook computing lines.

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