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Apple is moving toward the release of a redesigned MacBook, a new report emanating from the company’s Asian Mac manufacturers claims.
AU Optronics Corp. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. have been signed-up to produce flat-panel screens for the new MacBook models, confirmed the Commercial Times this morning, citing “sources”.
In line with Apple’s continued marketshare growth for its laptop offerings, Apple has set strong targets for sales of the new device, which MarketWatch claims is set for launch in the third quarter of 2008 (so that’s somewhere between July and September, people). Apple is aiming for three million MacBook sales. The two flat-panel manufacturers are the two largest in Taiwan, the report adds.
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fiscal third quarter?
Apple's fiscal third quarter ends June 30.
Sure, but the report means
Sure, but the report means third quarter this year, not Apple's fiscal quarter, which is - as you note - different.
Apple laptops rule in all
Apple laptops rule in all quarters.
It just confirms what is
It just confirms what is obvious: Macbooks with Montevina after June, as PC laptops makers will do (but under the brand Centrino 2, which is the same thing).
The good news is the more and more news that is confirming the redesign (probably the aluminium case, as the entire Apple line had already migrate, except the Macbook itself), not just an upgrade in CPU/chipset as Macbook has been receiving since its launching!
please, not more metal
MacBooks now will be made to look like MacBook Pros? The aluminum look is like 6-7 years old, it's what made the Black MacBook so desirable for so many people - it wasn't the same thing over and over and over and over and over again, year after year after year after year after year.
Plus, after I sold my 2nd aluminum MBP and bought a new BlackBook - on the same trip to the Apple Store when my wife bought a new 15" MBP - the two of us noticed that I could sit on the deck and get a good, strong WiFi signal - but she could not. Evidently, metal does make for a good signal shield! :-)
Please, Apple - no more aluminum! Do something different, please.
Otherwise, you'll need to change the slogan to: Think Same.
not real aluminum
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but the MBP I'm typing on sure doesn't feel like REAL aluminum... It seems like the stuff painted to look like metal that one would find on the dashboard of a car. Not sure that it would prevent a wi-fi signal...
uh huh, it is
Yeah, it's the same aluminum chassis they gave us at MacWorld 2002. Same old, same old. Now leveraged for the MBA. Evidently, soon to be leveraged YET AGAIN for the "new" MacBook.
It DOES a great job of blocking the Airport signal. I get 55 more feet of signal in my $1500 Blackbook than my wife gets in her $3500 MBP, and it annoys her to no end :-)
I am soooooo tired of the whole metal look. I bought that Titanium G4, the 2 aluminum MBP's - one IBM, one Intel - I bought this Blackbook just to FINALLY have something different.
You'd think that after 6 or 7 years, somebody in the now defunct design group at Apple might have had one original idea? Why must we be fed the same laptop case year after year after year after year after year after year?
THINK SAME. Yawn.
Does this include the
Does this include the macbook pro, or is this strictly a macbook upgrade??
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is the new macbook going to look and be alot like the current macbook? and is the price going to range around the same area