Here are the latest Apple rumors from the blogosphere:
“Apple forced to cut dealers in to get iPad Mini shifting, says analyst: Apple is sacrificing some margin on the iPad Mini in a bid to muster channel support for its late-to-the-party seven-incher ” — “Channel Register” (http://macte.ch/WxOLi)
“French language site MacBidouille claims to have some bad news from their retail sources. While they were expecting to see iMacs arrive on November 27th (we also heard a similar time frame – with availability beginning around Black Friday) for the 21.5-inchers and later in December for the 27-inchers, both may now miss the all important holiday shopping season” — “9to5Mac” (www.9to5.com)
“According to scattered reports on the Apple Support Forums, some users who have applied Apple’s latest extensible firmware interface (EFI) update are experiencing reduced frame rates while running graphically-intensive applications on the Nvidia GeForce GT 650M graphic chipset. The problems are inconsistent, and temporarily fixed by a SMC reset. The issue mostly affects waking a computer from sleep, gaming, or using Windows in Boot Camp.” — “MacNN” (www.macnn.com)
“Apple confirms first store in Rio de Janeiro Brazil as Istanbul, Turkey also preparing for Apple retail.” — “9to5Mac” (www.9to5Mac.com)