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Where’s the Mac Mini? And Other Rumor Smashes!

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If Wired, TUAW and Macrumors are independently reporting a Mac Mini is on its way, we know it exists. Evidently, we’re just not going to see it at Macworld. So what about other rumors?

From our original Macworld 2009 rumor roundup, here’s the rundown on how all the rumors panned out.

https://gizmodo.com/macworld-2009-rumors-round-up-5123135

Came True:

iLife and iWork ’09 (with iWork in the cloud)

DRM-Free iTunes

17-inch Macbook Pro

https://gizmodo.com/apple-revamps-ilife-for-09-79-for-iphoto-facial-recog-5124196

Didn’t Come True:

New Mac Mini

Updated 30-inch Cinema Displays

https://gizmodo.com/new-mac-mini-at-macworld-will-look-like-imac-time-ca-5121681

Didn’t Come True Stretches:

iPod Touch Jumbo/XL/Pro/Netbook/Thing

iPhone nano

Home Server

Snow Leopard Availability

New iMacs

https://gizmodo.com/analyst-hot-for-apple-netbook-at-macworld-5111464

Seeing as many of the rumors were an admitted wild shot at best, we’d put the real rumor batting average around .400, even if it’s closer to .266 on paper.

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