New Mac Book Pro models
On Tuesday Apple released new Mac Book Pro Models. This wasn’t a big surprise as as Intel had announced the new Core 2 Duo chip months ago and speculation was running high that new models would arrive in time for Christmas. What strikes me is that while everyone expected this announcement, rumor sites had to resort to inventory checks at the retail and reseller levels to predict the announcement date. Nobody outside Apple knew in advance the specs of the new notebooks. It seems that Apple has finally been able to totally eliminate confidential information leaks. Sure, there have been screenshots of the latest Leopard developers release but this was expected as it is very difficult to control a relatively large community of programmers working outside of Apple, but that is it.
It seems therefore that rumor sites are left with few elements to work with, namely public information from Intel, inventory checks, patents and, of course, speculation and wishful thinking.