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Apple Could upgrade the 12' Macbook in september
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Not necessarily. It will have a better GPU and likely 15% better CPU performance.
Yup it is going to be incremental mostly, just like the rest of them. DDR4 and wireless charging will wait until 2017 at the earliest for this machine.
Not going to happen. Apple had a major fiasco on their hands when they released the iPad 4 just seven months after the iPad 3; there was a major backlash despite the 4 being a necessary upgrade over the 3 which could barely handle the Retina display.
A $1299 laptop is an entirely different class of purchase than a 499-699$ tablet. If people were angry over the iPad 3 being succeeded in seven months... hoo boy, there would be even greater outrage over a new MacBook, especially if it felt like the second generation was what the first should have been all along. (Assuming they added a second USB-C port and the new Core M was significantly improved.)
A $1299 laptop is an entirely different class of purchase than a 499-699$ tablet. If people were angry over the iPad 3 being succeeded in seven months... hoo boy, there would be even greater outrage over a new MacBook, especially if it felt like the second generation was what the first should have been all along. (Assuming they added a second USB-C port and the new Core M was significantly improved.)
I wouldn't call online forum whining for 'a major backslash'. The iPad 4 sold millions upon millions, and much better than the iPad 3, so it clearly wasn't a major fiasco.
Call it what you will, but with Apple's mobile devices people have learned to expect a year between iterations. It's not something you want to hear when you find out your device has suddenly been replaced sooner than you'd expect and the new version fixes all the problems the old one had. The iPad 3's hardware had trouble driving the Retina display, and even today I hear about iPad 2s that run smoother than the 3 on iOS 8.
I hope the next iteration of MacBook is a great improvement. It has its place, and I think that future generations will fix all the problems people have with the device just like how the first generation MacBook Air was replaced by a great successor. I just hope Apple gives things a little bit of time.
Why don't you want to hear about it? The machine you bought works just fine, and there's *always* a new revision comming up, so the point is moot. Maybe people should buy them for needs instead of material bling bling wants.
Apple and many other tech companies have learnt very well that a product life cycle refresh cannot be rushed or you run the risk of lengthening the average consumer upgrade cycle and "uptake tail", ultimately negatively impacting the revenue channel for quarterly, half year and annual FS reporting.
It is as much a marketing science as it is an accounting methodology, and likely to be applied fairly consistently unless dictated by a major need or engineering imperative. Factor in the complexity of the SCM disruptions from factory to downstream retail outlets and you have the answer.
iPad sales are at their all time low fwiw.
The late 2013 Macbook was released only 8 months after its precessesor though, and I don't remember a major fiasco about that.
I confidently predict that Apple will never release a MacBook with a 12 foot display.
Anyway, what's in a thread title?