MacBook Air 15″ Coming in March of 2012?
Component suppliers have informed DigiTimes that Apple is already gathering pieces to a 15″ ultra-thin notebook that is set to debut as early as the second quarter of 2012.
While DigiTimes cautions they don’t know if the new laptop is a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, Apple openly promotes the current MacBook Air lineup as “the future of the notebook”, and a MacBook Air 15″ would be an excellent compliment to the product lineup.
Assuming a MacBook Air 15″ followed the weight difference (0.58lbs) of the existing 11″ and 13″ models, a theoretical 15″ model may weigh in at 3.54lbs.
On our personal wish list for such a machine would be 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD standard with a 512 GB SSD option, 1680×1050 or higher resolution, a discrete GPU, and Core i7 processors at 2.5GHz or above, while still retaining the stellar battery life that all of Apple’s devices are known for. A built-in coffee maker and personal assistant would be nice too, with the former being unlikely but the latter a possibility through the rumored Siri integration in future versions of OS X.
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Is this goodbye to the Macbook Pro as a pro level computer?
Hate to say it but yes I think so. Apple ditched the Mac Pro in favor of the iMac, and they left professionals behind with Final Cut X. The MacBook Pro will turn into the MacBook Air, maybe with the 17″ model sticking around for ‘pro’ users, but Apple is 100% a consumer level company now with little interest in the professional marketplace. Their old bread and butter of pro users was eaten up by the hefty profit margins favored on the lower level components in iOS and average user Macs.
Apple hasn’t ditched anyone with the Mac Pro. The Xeon release cycle is 18 months, and Apple release a new Mac Pro whenever there’s a new Xeon.
And even a year after the last refresh, Mac Pro still kicks any iMac off the table.
If Apple does abandon the Pro market, the pro’s will have to move over to PC. I’d rather cut off both arms than own a PC!
AMEN!
I’d be interested only if they put a hardwired gigabit port in the thing. And no, I don’t want a gigabit dongle as I already have enough crap to put in the bag.
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I’ll only buy when it’s a 17″ in the Air form factor. Except with a standard 2.5″ HDD. I’d rather just put the one I have into the new computer and save some money.
… save some money? … got to trash like Acer and don’t think about a quality product like Apple offers them … :-)
Why a 1680 x 1050 resolution? Why a 16:10 resolution?….
Because we don’t only use widescreens for watching movies.
“while still retaining the stellar battery life that all of Apple’s devices are known for”
all of Apple’s devices but the iPhone 4s..mine is much worse after the 5.01 update, damn apple!
Downgrade…
Coffee-maker haha!
Still waiting for iMessage and Siri for Mac OSX 10.7 :P
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Your wish list is more like a dream list but I am sold. March 2012 is a shaping up to be a big month for Apple with iPad 3 and MacBook Air 15.4″, my wallet is going to hate me.
Me too. Gotta start saving now…lol