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Next-Generation MacBook Airs Expected to be Mass-Manufactured This Month
June 10th, 2011 · 16 notes · #air #apple #bridge #generation #intel #macbook #sandy #fourth
A report by AppleInsider early this morning claims that Apple will manufacture 400,000 of the next-generation MacBook Air. Kasper Jade, a lead editor for AppleInsider, cites Ming-Chi Kuo of Conord Securites as a source. Kuo has proven to be a reliable source in the past, he is responsible for reporting the iPad 2 specifications to AppleInsider, as well as the latest Nintendo console, the Wii U. (Ming-Chi Kuo was also the first to proclaim that the iPhone 5 will have an 8 megapixel camera and ship in October.)
Kuo told AppleInsider that 55% of the units being manufactured this month will be 11.6 inch models of the next-generation MacBook Air. The 5% favorite is likely due to the cheaper price of the smaller MacBook Air, which explains why Apple sold 1.1 million MacBook Airs from October 2010 to the end of the year.
AppleInsider’s reliable Ming-Chi Kuo has provided the smallest of details in his report. The specifications of the fourth-generation MacBook Air were included in the article by Neil Hughes:
The new MacBook Airs set to go into production this month will move to to Intel’s 32-nanometer Sandy Bridge architecture, with the chipmakers’ latest ultra-low-voltage Core i5 and Core i7 chips. With the upgrade to Sandy Bridge, which sport between 3MB and 4MB of Smart Cache and support a theoretical maximum of 8GB of internal system memory, the mid-2011 MacBook Airs will jettison two-year-old Penryn-based 45-nm Core 2 Duo chips found in the current offering.
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1 Million new MacBook Airs Sold in it's First Quarter →
March 6th, 2011 · 7 notes · #apple #macbook #air #new
At least, that’s what a Chinese analyst tells AppleInsider.
Kasper Jade:
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tells AppleInsider that his most recent checks in Asia indicate Apple shipped a total of 1.1 million of its 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs during the three-month period ending December, making the new breed of ultra-thin portables one of the company’s most successful Mac product launches ever.
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Early 2011 MacBook Pro Review →
March 4th, 2011 · 6 notes · #apple #macbook #pro #2011 #update
It’s quick.
Nilay Patel:
No two ways about this: the new MacBook Pro is the fastest laptop we’ve ever tested, hands-down. We were sent the stock $2,199 15-inch MacBook Pro, and its 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7-2720QM, 4GB of RAM, and AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics with 1GB of dedicated GDDR5 RAM turned in numbers exceeding any Mac we’ve ever had in the labs. In fact, the raw CPU score is so high you’d have to step to a Mac Pro and Xeon processors to get anything faster, as far as we can tell. (That’ll obviously change when Apple bumps the iMac line to Sandy Bridge.)
iMacs to get Sandy Bridge too. Oh, how
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Intel has Given Apple Thunderbolt a Year in Advance →
February 24th, 2011 · 5 notes · #apple #intel #thunderbolt #new #macbook #pro #steve #jobs #birthday
AppleInsider gives you the down-low on the what the fuck Thunderbolt is as well.
Another interesting note, the MacBook Pro 15” (Late 2008 Unibody, $2,499) has a Geekbench of 2500, the MacBook Pro 15” (Early 2011 Unibody, $2,199) has a Geekbench of 9000. Go figure!
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Steve Jobs Will Receive a new Line of MacBook Pros on his Birthday →
February 21st, 2011 · 7 notes · #apple #steve #jobs #birthday #macbook #pro #new
Get well soon, Mr. Steve Jobs.
You know, I’m really starting to feel this whole “tech advances too quickly” thing. Seems like I got my unibody MacBook Pro a few months ago, but it was actually January 2009 (a few months after the unibodies were announced). Since then, Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pros three times and now they are about to throw my model away! To top it off, I’m still stuck with an iPhone 3GS.
Money money money, Apple Apple Apple.
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So it wasn’t really a “worthy competitor” at all. Did you ever think you’d live to see the day when Dell couldn’t compete with Apple on PC pricing?
— John Gruber, Daring Fireball, regarding Dell’s recent decision to drop the Adamo line
February 9th, 2011 · 4 notes · #dell #apple #macbook #air #adamo #daring #fireball #john #gruber
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Intel Chip Design Fault →
February 1st, 2011 · 1 note · #intel #chip #design #apple #macbook #pro #computer
Kasper Jade and Neil Hughes:
Generally speaking, it appears that the setback with Cougar Point [chip] could delay notebook and desktop-based Sandy Bridge systems by anywhere from 6 weeks to two and a half months…
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