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The Mac Observer brings you Mac Observer Reports for extended coverage of important Mac issues.

This is an archive of TMO Reports from before 2009. Current Reports can be found here.

[Added 1/9/2008]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2008 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and podcasts too!
[Added 9/5/2007]

Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" - Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" promises to bring a lot of new features and functionality to the Mac. Check here for all the news, past and present, about this update.

[Added January, 2007]

iPhone Special Report - In July of 2007, Apple released their first-ever combination mobile phone, iPod, and PDA. Love it or hate it, there's a lot being said about it, and we've tracked it all here for you.

[Updated Daily]
The Apple Stock Watch Report - We cover Apple's financial happenings better, and in more depth, than any other publication in the world. This includes our daily Apple Stock Watch, Apple's quarterly earnings reports, events dealing with Apple's Board of Directors and executive staff, and any other event related to Apple's financial dealings. This report dates back to January, 1999 and is updated daily.
[Updated 9/4/2007]

Mac OS X Intel/Universal Binary Applications - In January of 2005, the Mac moved to an Intel-based chipset, and this was the catalyst for applications to be recompiled to take full advantage of the new processors. Called "Universal Binary" these applications run natively on both old and new Macs, and we've tracked all the related news here for you.

[Updated 1/12/2007]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2007 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and podcasts too!
[Updated 1/16/2006]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2006 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and podcasts too!
[Updated 5/11/2001]

Macworld Expo Boston 2005 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials.

[Updated 1/17/2005]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2005 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!
[Updated 5/11/2001]

Macworld Expo Boston 2004 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials.

[Updated 1/9/2004]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2004 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!
[Updated 7/16/2003]
Macworld Expo CreativePro 2003 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo CreativePro, the last Macworld scheduled to be in New York City. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!
[Updated 1/14/2003]
Macworld Expo San Francisco 2003 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!
[Updated Daily]
The Apple Stock Watch Report - We cover Apple's financial happenings better, and in more depth, than any other publication in the world. This includes our daily Apple Stock Watch, Apple's quarterly earnings reports, events dealing with Apple's Board of Directors and executive staff, and any other event related to Apple's financial dealings. This report dates back to January, 1999 and is updated daily.
[Updated 7/22/2002]
Macworld Expo New York 2002 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!
[Updated 1/15/2002]

Macworld Expo San Francisco 2002 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!

[Updated 7/24/2001]

Macworld Expo New York 2001 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and audio tours too!

[1/7/2001]

Mac OS X - Mac OS X is here, and EVERYONE has questions. We have compiled all of our stories about the new OS in this special report. All of our tips, product releases, announcements, news, opinions, reviews, and more.

[Update: With the ascendancy of Mac OS X, we have ceased our Mac OS X daily report.]

[Updated 5/11/2001]

Remembering... - Apple's history is rife with some amazing ads that tell a story all their own. For most Mac fans, seeing those ads takes us back by offering us a snapshot of the past and seeing just how fat we have come, technologically speaking. We bring you those ads in this series, as supplied to us by Observers like you.

[Updated 2/26/2001]

Macworld Expo Tokyo 2001 - This is our new report for Macworld Expo Tokyo. Keynote information, reports from the Henna Gaijin, and more.

[Updated 1/23/2001]

Macworld Expo San Francisco 2001 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials from the show floor.

[Updated 8/3/2000]

Macworld Expo New York 2000 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and video tours from The Idiots.

[Updated 1/20/2000]

Macworld Expo San Francisco 2000 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and video tours from The Idiots.

[Updated 9/23/1999]

SETI@home - The SETI@home project is an effort to find extraterrestrial signals coming from distant stars by analyzing radio signals in the heavens. This is done by breaking up chunks of data and distributing them to computers around the world. Over 600,000 computers have joined in the project making it the biggest distributed processing effort ever. The Mac is playing an enormous part in this effort with Macs being among the faster platforms and having turned in the 2nd highest number of completed work units of data.

[Updated 7/28/1999]

Macworld Expo New York 1999 - All of our stories from and about Macworld Expo. Tons of product announcements, our coverage of the keynote event, picture galleries, commentaries and editorials, and video tours from The Idiots.

[Updated 5/11/1999]

World Wide Developer Conference 1999 - New products (despite erroneous reports that says Apple never releases new products at the WWDC), developer initiatives, and all the other announcements from this most important developer conference of the year.

[Updated 2/24/1999]

The Japan Report - Our Japan Report focuses on events taking place in Japan's Mac industry. This includes stories from Macworld Expo Tokyo, which takes place every February, stories about Apple's market share in Japan, and other related stories.

Recent Headlines - Updated November 22nd

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