The white MacBook is now officially gone, rest its soul, and Apple has now replaced its role by offering new education-exclusive 11″ and 13″ MacBook Airs with slightly scaled-down specs and a discounted price.
A new report has rekindled rumors of a significantly redesigned MacBook Pro with an ultra-thin new design, stating that Apple will indeed launch revamped Air-like MacBook Pros sometime this Spring.
I bumped into my friends at Timbuk2 while attending CES 2012 in Las Vegas, and they kindly agreed to team up with MacTrast to giveaway a Timbuk2 Crater Sleeve for MacBook Air to one of our lucky readers!
New prismatic battery technology could enable Apple to make their MacBooks even thinner, while improving battery life. The new batteries can provide the same amount of power in roughly one third the footprint of current batteries.
Is Apple’s rumored move from Intel to ARM processors closer than we think? With the possible doubling of the pixel resolution on the upcoming iPad 3, some believe it means the graphic power is there to efficiently move pixels around on a MacBook Air.
Apple is reported to have sold 1.2 million of its razor thin and uber light MacBook Air during the holiday shopping season. This report as competing PC manufacturers hope to steal some of Apple’s thunder by introducing their own “Ultrabooks” at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Acer is once again bashing Apple, claiming that the Mac is just a passing fancy, and that Intel’s Ultrabook will defeat them by 2014.
Intel’s next-gen processors, and therefore the next MacBook Air, will support up to three simultaneous displays (one of which is built-in), in comparison to the single external display supported by current Thunderbolt MacBook Airs.
Devices in the recently formed “Ultrabook” category are expected to see significant price reductions in the first quarter of 2012, due mainly to Intel providing a $100 marketing subsidy to the manufacturers.
Apple will be updating their MacBook Air line early next year, reports DigiTimes, and introducing a new 15-inch model alongside updated 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models.
Apple’s Black Friday sales blew away expectations, with Apple recording their biggest sales day of all time. Apple had forecasted sales of 4x higher than normal, but quickly exceeded those expectations.
Potential Macbook Air competitors will have to use other materials like plastic, as Apple monopolizes of the aluminium chassis supply.
Apple reportedly almost released a 15″ MacBook Air in 2010, but had to scrap the device due to design issues, and will be releasing the 15″ MacBook Air early next year instead.
MacRumors reports today that Apple was oh, so close to releasing the MacBook Air with an AMD CPU. Claims are that “Apple had late stage AMD Llano based MacBook Air prototypes last spring and had been ‘on the verge of production’.”
HP have launched a direct competitor to Apple’s Macbook Air, the Folio 13 Ultrabook. HP’s first “business Ultrabook” will be available from December 7th and will cost $900, which is $100 dollars cheaper than the basic Macbook Air model.
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty provides the latest NPD figures, showing that Apple’s popular MacBook Air now make up 28 percent of the company’s notebook shipments, up from 8% in the first half of this year.
