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Analyst Claims September Launch for New iPod Touch, Smaller iPod Nano, Two New MacBook Air Models

monsieurpaul said:
I predict a new Macbook Air running iOS, with a touchscreen and no keyboard.
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I don't think apple would brand an iOS device as a MacBook, hence, MACbook. I think if they made a larger more powerful iPad, they would name it something like iPad HD or iPad Pro.
 
Hopefully there will also be some kind of refresh to the classic. Well, at least a price drop, or perhaps a 120GB model priced at 200.

Am I the only one that still likes hard drive players better than flash memory based ones?
 
I've heard from people that work for Apple that a smaller Air has been a prototype for quite some time…
 
I always thought the footprint of the Air was too big. Sure it was thinner than a MacBook, but it wasn't like it took less space on a confined area like an airplane tray.

I'm fine with the 13" screen, but why the ~1 inch boarder around the screen and base? (probably for extra space of the battery). Hopefully they can keep the screen and keyboard and screen size and battery life while reducing the footprint.
 
Here's some more speculation.

The "micro-Nano" as I dub it, could be a screen only front like an iPhone with a 1.7-2" diagonal form factor. The BACK of the device could have the camera but also a touch sensitive scroll wheel mode on the otherwise Magic pad like surface.

That would make the first all surface active Apple product.

The edges would be for the volume control, dock connector (defining the device size), and it would support Bluetooth and wifi. It will support VoIP. That makes it the "micro-iPhone" too.

I hope. I wish. I speculate.

Next year the device will be too small for a dock connector and will interface only with micro-USB.

Rocketman
 
I was planning on buying a new nano in September, but from the looks of things I will be sticking with my much-loved, matte, sans-camera 4G Nano.

While I would appreciate some additional GBs, me + new iPod probably isn't going to happen, unless it's an iPod Classic (provided they aren't updated sans rumors).



As for a smaller MacBook air, that would be great for a lot of people, but I don't happen to be one of them, as I need a disc drive without carrying around additional gadges and cables 🙂
 
I think Apple would eventually like to move to just 2 iPod models - an iPod Touch and an iPod Touch Nano to replace the shuffle, nano and classic. The problem as I see it is that flash memory prices are just not falling fast enough to introduce a competitively priced 128Gb model to replace the classic so I can't see them doing it this year. I think they will scrap the shuffle, update the nano and classic slightly if at all and focus the attention on a new iPod Touch with similiar new features to the new iPhone.
 
iPod nano - touch screen possible if current iPod touch does something else too, make phone call.

iPod touch = iPod touch +phone - data plan - contracts

iPod nano becomes new iPod touch with slightly smaller screen or some thing

remember Andriod Phones are selling 200K every day and taking off like that, i think Apple gotta to do something - not the $99 ($499) iPhone 3GS 8GB crap!
 
Kebabselector said:
Maybe when Steve gets fatter the products might.
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+1 now that was funny. but being a skinny guy, its hard to carry heavy stuff.


I love the photo of the nano with the lady on the bike, that looks like a wreck about to happen
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I'm all for more MBAs. The optical drive in my MBP is so rarely used there's pretty much no point in having it. As weird as it sounds, I'd love a 15" MBA or rather a 15" MBP without the space-occupying disc-drive.
 
I wonder if the MBAir will morph into the first OSX tablet? I've seen a number of reports about companies embracing the iPad so I can imagine there would be a market for a larger screen tablet running OSX rather than iOS. The iPad was ment to be a consumer product not a business tool.
 
shanmugam said:
with intel Low Voltage CPUs costing Apple any where between $200 to $300 - the $800 MBA not viable, unless APPLE go Pentium Low Voltage or ARM CPUs.

street price for such CPUs (the ones used in MBA) are $330!
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You cannot use these CPUs in your own computers, so they do not have a "street price". It requires a special factory to solder these CPUs onto the mainboard.
 
A smaller and even better a pocketable MacBook Air will be fantastic. The lighter and smaller, the better. As far as it has Mac inside and true video-out and USB ports for presentations on videoprojector using a USB remote control. Our university needs thousands.
 
rcm3 said:
I'm all for more MBAs. The optical drive in my MBP is so rarely used there's pretty much no point in having it. As weird as it sounds, I'd love a 15" MBA or rather a 15" MBP without the space-occupying disc-drive.
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A 15" MB Air? Be careful, if dropped it might slice your foot off 😉
 
What would be the outcome if this new Air used a rebranded multi-core Cortex-A9 processor with a version of OSX that runs on it?

Benefits? Drawbacks?
 
All I really want is a Macbook Air with a 13.3" screen, 1680x1050 (or 1440x900 at a push) screen resolution and 4GB of RAM and I'd be happy. If Sony can do high resolution screens with their Z series, why can't Apple?
 
If they come out with a MacBook Air at an unoffensive price, I'll pick one up in a second. I've wanted a MBA since it was launched, but just couldn't justify the price. For years I've wanted a Mac laptop without an optical drive. Assuming of course that would drastically reduce its size and weight.
 
A MacBook Air with an 11.6" display and a starting price around $1000 I'll pick one up in a heartbeat. Of course I'd pay extra for more ram and a SSD.
 
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