I didn’t know Rush Limbaugh is a Mac user, until I found myself at a page on his site where he’s complaining about Mac OS X 10.5 bugs [link thanks to Keef]. Fair enough, we all complain. But then something caught my eye:

So I’m asking these guys during the break, “Do you think I ought to put out a plea to Steve Jobs? I know he’s politically opposite of me, but just to say, “Mr. Jobs, please, I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drives. I’ve loaded ‘em up. Our whole office here is Mac, and I just want it to work because I love them — and these two things that aren’t working would seem to me, as a novice, to be a simple fix, but they’re not.”

[my bold]

I’m usually pretty up-to-date on Mac configurations, and sure enough, when I went to the Apple Store to check on the nagging possibility that Blu-ray drives had been introduced for Macs without my knowledge, there’s no Blu-ray drive options on Mac Pros, or any Macs for that matter.

So either Rush is full of (yet more) hot air, or there’s a Mac pilot program for celebrities, and he’s in it.

MacRumors notes a new id string for the next MacBook Pro has started to leak out of Cupertino. It’s been many months (June 2007) since the MBPs were updated, so this signals what many anticipated happening soon anyway.

Questions: will it have a fancy new touchpad ala MacBook Air? Will it have greater screen resolution than current models?

Mac Rumors says we may see an updated MacBook tomorrow.

Apple’s Leopard update, however, has revealed drivers for the newer Intel GMA X3100 integrated graphics chip. This is the successor to the Intel GMA 950 which currently resides in the existing MacBooks. This would suggest that the next MacBook will see an upgrade to the Santa Rosa chipset. This, however, remains speculative. The driver, however, appears functional and works when used on a PC laptop with the X3100 chipset.