PowerBooks, iBooks, BlueTooth

Spymac provides some further hints regarding updates in the portable line.

They provide some further evidence that PowerBook updates may be coming sooner than MacWorld SanFrancisco, bluetooth in PowerMacs and further hints towards Special Edition iBooks.

hah..spymac

SpyMac? Are they still in the rumor business? I thought they just held lame contests and sold email accounts.. hm, silly me :D

Thats a hint? Essh...I think all that 'information" was covered here weeks ago.

What happened to appleinsider?

Their sites been down over a week.

Spymac have made a very bad name for themselves, the only comments here relate to Spymac being bad.

Very Quickly I think I can sumarise our views on spymac. Really, they have had some really bad stuff though. Great though that you get free 25MB email.

Has anyone been able so access spymac? I thought it was down?

I'm no marketing guru, but wouldn't it make sense for Apple to release it's consumer-oriented products before the Christmas buying season, rather than after? Actually, considering we're right in the middle of back-to-school buying season, an iBook update sounds right, even though it would mean my 2 month old 700 mhz 12.1" would no longer be the top of the heap. :(

Originally posted by arn
towards Special Edition iBooks

Isn't SE what they do right before EOLing a form of computer as opposed to a particular speed bump?

Rocketman

Originally posted by pilotgi
What happened to appleinsider?

Their sites been down over a week.

It's not down, but badly configured routers are bouncing requests into oblivion. Look:

Traceroute has started ...

traceroute to www.appleinsider.com (140.186.123.184), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.0.0.2 (10.0.0.2) 39.548 ms 29.4 ms 22.032 ms
2 claranet1-hg2.ilford.broadband.bt.net (217.41.128.73) 25.513 ms 21.755 ms 22.56 ms
3 217.41.128.1 (217.41.128.1) 25.496 ms 23.343 ms 19.269 ms
4 217.41.128.106 (217.41.128.106) 27.107 ms 20.115 ms 21.751 ms
5 ge-1-0-0-7-telee-tashtego.router.clara.net (195.8.68.235) 23.496 ms 24.645 ms 23.727 ms
6 213.248.75.73 (213.248.75.73) 22.876 ms 23.593 ms 26.629 ms
7 ldn-b1-pos11-0.telia.net (213.248.74.13) 28.879 ms 24.022 ms 26.153 ms
8 kbn-bb2-pos2-1-0.telia.net (213.248.64.65) 50.379 ms 50.333 ms 54.829 ms
9 nyk-bb2-pos1-1-0.telia.net (213.248.64.13) 169.525 ms 140.072 ms 138.257 ms
10 her-bb1-pos0-1-0.telia.net (213.248.80.18) 141.285 ms 144.228 ms 167.623 ms
11 atl-bb1-pos0-1-0.telia.net (213.248.80.58) 156.385 ms 154.032 ms 156.15 ms
12 dls-bb1-pos0-1-0.telia.net (213.248.80.70) 175.24 ms 173.992 ms 173.389 ms
13 qwest.telia.net (213.248.92.70) 176.929 ms 176.204 ms 174.27 ms
14 dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.25.49) 181.753 ms 176.319 ms 174.649 ms
15 kcm-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.8.142) 189.363 ms 187.228 ms 188.055 ms
16 dca-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.5.57) 162.514 ms 196.876 ms 164.617 ms
17 dcx-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.9.158) 164.832 ms 162.71 ms 162.874 ms
18 res1-br1-g0-0-0.gnaps.net (65.123.21.202) 179.519 ms 193.498 ms 193.166 ms
19 qcy1-ar2-g1-0.gnaps.net (199.232.131.2) 204.858 ms 200.709 ms 202.075 ms
20 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 192.503 ms 191.236 ms 194.735 ms
21 link74-169.cent.net (199.232.74.169) 203.452 ms 204.335 ms 202.031 ms
22 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 201.149 ms 207.14 ms 194.773 ms
23 link74-169.cent.net (199.232.74.169) 200.57 ms 203.41 ms 202.188 ms
24 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 192.696 ms 195.27 ms 193.867 ms
25 link74-169.cent.net (199.232.74.169) 199.464 ms 202.835 ms 201.721 ms
26 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 192.298 ms 193.463 ms 191.617 ms
27 link74-169.cent.net (199.232.74.169) 202.063 ms 200.86 ms 201.799 ms
28 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 193.09 ms 191.541 ms 194.462 ms
29 link74-169.cent.net (199.232.74.169) 203.557 ms 201.07 ms 202.676 ms
30 link74-170.cent.net (199.232.74.170) 194.045 ms 195.717 ms 199.413 ms

Check out the last 10 hops.

I'm surprised nobody has reported it actually, but I can't see who owns cent.net.