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Analyst: iMac and MacBook Updates Coming Within Weeks?

I would think the Macbook would get a major redesign. Lose the white case and make it silver. It really doesn't need a DVD drive and make the battery built-in. Give the Macbook a diet with no firewire and just have USB ports. It would cut into Macbook Air sales though. Maybe even have it use the Atom processor to make it the baby brother of the Air.
 
Really sad to see the current iMac design go, if this is true. The all-metal, black-bezel iMac is the most beautiful machine I've ever seen (followed closely by the unibody MBP I'm typing this on, which is obviously in the same design family). The iMac has always pushed the envelope and while every design is great (I've had the "snowglobe" iMac and G5 "white panel" one), it's hard to imagine anything topping the current look. There is NO need for additional thinness... my god, what is the point? It's a desktop!

But the Macbook sorely needs a design. Its been ugly as sin since the day it was introduced -- only the black one has ever looked good!
 
Phew, at first I thought this was a Macbook Pro update, but I forgot about that measly other lappy that Apple offers. Bout time that thing got a decent update or price drop. Who on earth would buy that thing?
 
I'm recalling that AppleInsider report from last month that discussed the future of the polycarbonate Macbook.

Once rumored for extinction, Apple's entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker's notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned.

People familiar with Cupertino-based company's plans say the 13-inch portables are presently undergoing an industrial design overhaul that will see them reemerge in the coming months with a slimmer, lighter enclosure and restructured internal architecture to boot.

It'll be the first time in more than three years that the plastic Mac notebooks will receive a visual tune-up. Introduced in May of 2006, the white and black systems replaced the PowerPC-based iBook and 12-inch PowerBook as part of Apple's transition to Intel processors and quickly became the best selling Mac of all time, according to statistics from NPD Group.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/25/apple_to_retain_redesign_plastic_macbook_family.html

I'm going to add to this post a link to an earlier AI report about rumored plans for the iMac: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...acs_rumored_with_compelling_new_features.html
 
I don't know exactly when the updates will come, but after it all shakes out:

The iPhone/iPod Touch will look like an iPhone/iPod Touch.

The iTablet will look like a big iPhone/iPod Touch (with a foldout stand.)

The MacBook will look like an enormous iPhone/iPod Touch (with a foldout keyboard.)

The iMac will look like a mega-ginormous iPhone/iPod Touch (with a fixed stand.)
 
J Radical said:
This is very true, but remember Apple notebooks are competitively priced*, so there is no excuse for the desktops.


*i.e in addition to their excellent build quality, they have comparable performance to similarly priced PC laptops.
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Well, I'd say the price us competitive at the time they're released. Apple's cycles are longer than say... Dell's. (Which is why I always wait for a new release before buying.)

People generally do not want or care about MHz, GBs or anything like that when they buy a Mac and that's why Apple's sales continue to do quite well. If you think they need to be more concerned about that, just go to your nearest Apple Store and observe the crowd for about 20 minutes.
 
b1wils1 said:
powerbook G5
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
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