> Is it just me, or is Macrumors by far the best Apple-news aggregator out there?

Ars Technica's Infinite Loop section is very good in my experience, they don't tend to do rumor as much and their coverage is usually good and informed.

appleinsider's quality varies a lot and it has lots of terrible writers who really don't know jack (Prince McLean for instance, really should quit the internet altogether), and the 9to5 network is just garbage all around, with 9to5mac being the Apple-scenting of that garbage.