Been a lurker here for a while but I figured I'd offer my two cents. As we all know with apple, there are no facts until the site goes down and comes back online with a new product. That being said, we have to look at the indirect evidence derived from what we currently know about apple's entire product line and their history.
Fact - apple's remaining major releases this year include desktops, laptops, and the iPhone.
Fact- Mountain Lion is coming out this summer.
Pretty much Fact- The iPhone will come out in the fall.
Fact- the pro, mini, and imac make desktops the MOST dated product line in the company
Opinion- based on the previous fact, I highly doubt apple would push a desktop release to Q4
rumor- Digitimes claims that Apple will be ramping up production of the new 15" MacBook Pro in April, but with the new 13.3" model not ramping up until June
Opinion- If that production schedule is correct I'd like to think desktops are stocked up sitting in a dark warehouse just waiting for Tim Cook to pull the trigger, and that there would most likely be a laptop announcement late July or August.
Opinion- It would make sense then that desktops (a smaller market then laptops) would get a release in early summer to coincide with mountain lion. Thus working out all the bugs for the millions of college students buying 2012 macbooks in August/September.
So if we drop the desktop refresh into this road map we end up with a extremely even and extremely logical distribution of major releases from now until the holidays. (perfect time for a new iPod to mimic the redesigned iPhone. christmas present anyone??)
(march-ipad) april may **desktops** june july **laptops** aug sep **iphone** oct nov **ipods** dec jan
Just a thought I didn't find anywhere else. Apologies for the length.
Fact - apple's remaining major releases this year include desktops, laptops, and the iPhone.
Fact- Mountain Lion is coming out this summer.
Pretty much Fact- The iPhone will come out in the fall.
Fact- the pro, mini, and imac make desktops the MOST dated product line in the company
Opinion- based on the previous fact, I highly doubt apple would push a desktop release to Q4
rumor- Digitimes claims that Apple will be ramping up production of the new 15" MacBook Pro in April, but with the new 13.3" model not ramping up until June
Opinion- If that production schedule is correct I'd like to think desktops are stocked up sitting in a dark warehouse just waiting for Tim Cook to pull the trigger, and that there would most likely be a laptop announcement late July or August.
Opinion- It would make sense then that desktops (a smaller market then laptops) would get a release in early summer to coincide with mountain lion. Thus working out all the bugs for the millions of college students buying 2012 macbooks in August/September.
So if we drop the desktop refresh into this road map we end up with a extremely even and extremely logical distribution of major releases from now until the holidays. (perfect time for a new iPod to mimic the redesigned iPhone. christmas present anyone??)
(march-ipad) april may **desktops** june july **laptops** aug sep **iphone** oct nov **ipods** dec jan
Just a thought I didn't find anywhere else. Apologies for the length.