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Think Secret: iPod mini bald mit Farb­dis­play und mehr Speicher ?

Highly reli­able sources have con­firmed that the next iPod mini will gain a full-color active-matrix TFT screen while the form fac­tor will remain largely unchanged. The color screen will be able to dis­play col­ors clearly and brightly regard­less of ambi­ent light­ing, even out­doors in direct sun­light. The new screen will be about the same size as the cur­rent iPod mini dis­play and will sport a 176x132 resolution.

Erschei­n­ungszeitraum soll in den näch­sten zwei Wochen sein.…

Laut Applein­sider soll der grosse 40 GB iPOD eingestellt wer­den und dafür der iPOD Photo um 100$ gesenkt werden.

ThinkSe­cret also reports that Apple will shift its full line of iPods away from mono­chrome dis­plays over the course of the year, a tip AppleIn­sider can par­tially con­firm. Accord­ing to sources, Apple will soon dis­con­tinue the 40GB iPod with a mono­chrome dis­play. Sources said Apple will likely fill this gap by reduc­ing the cost of its 40GB iPhoto model to $399, and sub­se­quently the 60GB model to $499 — both of which have been sell­ing poorly at their cur­rent price points.

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Ren­dezvous wird nun in Bon­jour umbenannt.Apple hat dieses Wort erst kür­zlich als Marken­ze­ichen ein­tra­gen lassen :

Checks from inside Apple also con­firm the name change to Bon­jour. Accord­ing to extremely well-placed sources, the lat­est inter­nal builds of Apple’s next-generation Tiger oper­at­ing sys­tem have shed all men­tion of the Ren­dezvous name in favor of Bon­jour. Builds of Tiger are fast approach­ing the 8A39x mile­stone, and sub­se­quently an offi­cial release within the next few months, sources said.

Der Grund für diese Änderung war ein Streit mit der Firma Tibco Soft­ware of Palo Alto, Calif.

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Ein weit­eres Tiger Build ( 8A385 ) ist an die Entwick­ler verteilt worden.

These “gen­eral issues” per­tain to slug­gish­ness of the Mac OS X Dock, Spot­light index­ing and FireWire dri­ves, Key­chain sync­ing cor­rup­tion, and non-updating win­dow titles. The build’s notes also ref­er­ence bugs asso­ci­ated with authen­ti­ca­tion dialogs and the .Mac Sync pref­er­ence panel.

Ausser­dem gibt es erste Anze­ichen für ein let­ztes Pan­ther Update ( 10.3.9 ).

Apple has report­edly been work­ing on the Mac OS X 10.3 Pan­ther update for a few weeks — the ninth such update that will be released for the OS since its incep­tion. Details of the update are yet unknown, but sources claim that Apple has begun seed­ing builds of the sys­tem inter­nally. Exter­nal seeds of the update are expected within the next cou­ple of weeks. More details will be pub­lished when they become available.

Dieses Update wird nach den let­zten Prob­le­men sicher gewünscht.…

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