If you want to get the latest information and rumors about Macintosh products, there are a few good places to visit. Macsurfer.com has an excellent daily listing of Mac-related articles and even blog entries (this blog has been listed there several times), updated every day. If you’re looking for a story on anything related to the Mac, that’s the place to go.

For concentrated rumors, Think Secret may be the most often quoted, but MacRumors has the most comprehensive information around, with discussion areas that have a lot of good feedback.

But the place not to go to: MacOSRumors (not to be confused with the excellent MacRumors). You may have seen the link I had to their site on my linkboard at right, but no longer. For some time, they’re been unreliable in both their information and how often they update their site (too many “coming soon” claims that are never followed up), but most annoyingly, they’re more of an ad site than a Mac rumors site. Want to see a story? Click through ads to get there. Ads all over the place. And something that surprised me: they have pop-under ads that actually get through Mozilla’s pop-up ad blocker, something I did not think was even possible. It’s the only site I have been to where this happens.

I wrote them about it when it first happened, telling them I would not return as long as they had such ads. They sent back an email assuring me that it was a fluke, and when they caught an advertiser doing that, they would cut them off immediately. Just that alone sounded like BS–the pop-under ads were not coming from advertisers’ pages, they were coming straight from MacOSRumor’s code. And sure enough, subsequent visits have brought more pop-unders. So I have switched their link with one for Think Secret; I will not return to the site and I advise you to avoid it as well.