Apple’s MacBook Air is a light-weight and compact portable computing machine which can do most common tasks and work. What it can’t do is devote processing power for a heavy duty job involving the consumption of lots of virtual resources.
According to CNET in an interview with Deutsche Bank Analyst, Chris Whitmore, Apple plans on solving that problem with an apparent July release of their newest MacBook Air which will move on from the aging and obsolete Core 2 Duo and embrace a new generation of tiny-but-powerful Sandy Bridge microprocessors produced by Intel, which some MacBook Pros and iMacs are already using.
Whitmore says that checks received by the bank “suggest a forthcoming MacBook Air refresh in July where we believe units could ramp to as high as 1.5M units per [quarter] or 50 percent of the MacBook business.”
The next MacBook Air will also likely include the new Lion OS X operating system because it brings a vast library of more than 250 new features and it will arrive coincidentally along with the MacBook Air refresh.
Also, Apple’s announcement photo for the Mission Control feature on Lion OS X is displayed on a MacBook Air.
Reuters issued a story citing another publication, The Economic Daily, that Apple will ship 460,000 MacBook Air units at the end of June, 380,000 of those being the new model of MacBook Air. The report also mentioned the iPad 3 will ship before the end of the year with screen resolution 5 times that of the current model.
According to CNET in an interview with Deutsche Bank Analyst, Chris Whitmore, Apple plans on solving that problem with an apparent July release of their newest MacBook Air which will move on from the aging and obsolete Core 2 Duo and embrace a new generation of tiny-but-powerful Sandy Bridge microprocessors produced by Intel, which some MacBook Pros and iMacs are already using.
Whitmore says that checks received by the bank “suggest a forthcoming MacBook Air refresh in July where we believe units could ramp to as high as 1.5M units per [quarter] or 50 percent of the MacBook business.”
The next MacBook Air will also likely include the new Lion OS X operating system because it brings a vast library of more than 250 new features and it will arrive coincidentally along with the MacBook Air refresh.
Also, Apple’s announcement photo for the Mission Control feature on Lion OS X is displayed on a MacBook Air.
Reuters issued a story citing another publication, The Economic Daily, that Apple will ship 460,000 MacBook Air units at the end of June, 380,000 of those being the new model of MacBook Air. The report also mentioned the iPad 3 will ship before the end of the year with screen resolution 5 times that of the current model.
