MacRumors : Mac News and Rumorsthe mac news you care aboutMobileMe Launching on July 9th Between 6pm-12am PT- July 8, 2008 Apple has announced the launch date and time for their MobileMe service. The revamped .Mac service will offer web-based email, calendar, addressbook, photo gallery and storage capabilities as well as "Push" sync services. Apple announced MobileMe a...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/07/mobileme-launching-on-july-9th-between-6pm-12am-pt/ Apple Confirms 8am Retail Launch of iPhone 3G- July 7, 2008 Despite some mixed signals at their retail meeting last night, Apple has now updated their retail website at http:www.apple.comretail, indicating that the iPhone 3G will be launched at 8 a.m. at Apple retail stores on July 11th. br...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/07/apple-confirms-8am-retail-launch-of-iphone-3g/ iPhone 3G Store Displays, Demo Units, Apple Retail Launch Update- July 7, 2008 Image from Gizmodo Preparations are underway for the iPhone 3G launch this Friday at AT&T and Apple stores nationwide. Gizmodo posts photos of oversized iPhone 3G store displays (pictured above) that demonstrate the functionality of t...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/07/iphone-3g-store-displays-demo-units-apple-retail-launc... New Zealand Midnight iPhone Launch and U.K. Pre Orders Sold Out- July 7, 2008 Vodafone sent out an email (screenshot) announcing that the iPhone 3G will be launching in New Zealand at a 12:01 am on the morning of Friday, July 11th at three Vodafone stores (Queen St, Lambton Quay, Columbo St) nationwide. Meanwhile, New Zealand...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/07/new-zealand-midnight-launch-and-o2-pre-orders/ Leaked Aluminum MacBook Pro Case Photo- July 7, 2008 A blog entry (in Chinese) claims to have a photograph of prototype case housings of the upcoming redesigned MacBook Pro. The photo depicts what appear to be top and bottom housings of a Mac laptop sitting on a box. The housing resembles th...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/07/aluminum-macbook-pro-case-photo/ Intel Recommends Developers Plan for Massive Multi-Core Processing- July 7, 2008 Intel's research blog recently discussed the direction that developers should plan for in the coming years. Intel's Anwar Ghuloum describes how developers have been listening to Intel's announcements that they are increasingly heading ...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/06/intel-recommends-developers-plan-for-massive-multi-cor... Customer Backlash on iPhone Rate Plans, Launch Approaches- July 6, 2008 As international pricing for the iPhone has been trickling out, customers in some countries are particularly unhappy about their rate plans for the upcoming iPhone launch. Sweden's TeliaSonera rate plans, which started at 299 krmon...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/06/customer-backlash-on-iphone-rate-plan-pricing-launch-a... Next Version Of Flash Player To See Performance Leap- July 4, 2008 Adobe released Flash Player 10 beta 2 via its Adobe Labs website this week. According to one of its developers, the new mac version promises to bring up to 3 times the performance for certain operations.If you have followed GUIMark ...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/04/next-version-of-flash-player-to-see-performance-leap/ 1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500- July 3, 2008 Apple has quietly dropped the price of the high end MacBook Air by $500. The high end MacBook Air comes equipped with a 1.8GHz upgrade (from 1.6GHz) and a 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The total price for the high end laptop is $2598...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/03/1-8ghz-ssd-macbook-air-drops-500/ MobileMe Retail Boxes Shipping to Customers- July 3, 2008 Meckimac.com posts a photo of the MobileMe retail box that has started shipping to some customers. The box itself is not particularly useful, as it likely contains only an activation code for a year of MobileMe service. Appl...http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/03/mobileme-retail-boxes-shipping-to-customers/ |