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Leaked images of MacBook mini?

“What’s that?” you say. “Another rumor about a MacBook mini!?” Yup; you know you love it. You can’t get enough, and neither can I. Here are some “leaked” images of a possible MacBook mini. You might want to avert your eyes if you are on a low sodium diet since you’re going to need a ginormous grain of salt with these.

New iPhone models referenced in OS 3.0 beta

Seems our friend Steve Troughton-Smith is trying to make a name for himself. You might remember that he was the developer who successfully tethered his iPhone to his notebook after hacking around with iPhone OS 3.0 beta. Continuing from there, he’s now found five completely new device references in the beta OS. He believes them to be two new iPhone models, an iPod touch model and two other unknown devices.

The Apple Brick, you couldn’t hope for much more than this

I’m going to start laying a wall with all these bricks I’ve been stumbling over for the past few days. I don’t mind though. If there’s one thing that gets me excited, it’s Apple rumors, and I bet you’re the same way.

Cult of Mac has a great article about what they, and I, want the Apple Brick to be. Be forewarned, this is just a dream. To the best of my knowledge, this is not even a rumor.

The article details a device, with pictures from a concept of the OLPC version 2 by Yves Behar, that is similar in some respects to a standard ultra portable laptop. It would open like a standard laptop, run a version of OS X, and have an Apple logo. But that’s where the similarities end.

Apple TV refresh also a possibility

I think a wrecking ball just broke through the ceiling of the building I’m sitting in, because bricks are flying everywhere. Hey, look up in the sky! It’s a MacBook Touch…no, a Mac Mini Pro…no, it’s an Apple TV!

Okay, so here’s another rumor to be taken with all that salt your doctor keeps telling you to cut back on. The Apple brick may actually be a refresh of the Apple TV.

Things are starting to add up with new Mac part numbers

MacRumors is adding to the rumors of new Macs with a report about six new placeholder SKUs in the inventory system of Future Shop. Placeholder SKUs are a common practice in the inventory systems of retailers across the board. You might remember that Best Buy had a similar set of new SKUs three weeks prior more »