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Apple Hints at a 'Product Transition' and a New Product Soon?

The revenue hit for a product transition may really only refer to the Apple pricing model. Product X comes out at $2000 and costs Apple $1600 to build/market/sell. Then the product continues for the next 12 months at the same retail price while the component cost for Apple drops to $1200.

Apple is making an additional $400 for the same product. Then when Apple replaces Product X with X.1 their cost bounces back up to $1600 and they are suffering a short term drop in profit.

disclaimer: imaginary product with imaginary prices to illustrate point.
 
new iPod Touch and smaller MacBook my guess

I'm guessing that they officially retire the iPod Classic line and introduce an iPod Touch with a hard drive.

Also to combat the increasing popularity of the Eee PC, the Macbook gets a little smaller with a 10" screen, but still has a nice size keyboard (like the HP MiniNote) and the Air's external DVD drive included. It will still be plastic, but white is gone, and black/silver is in. Still no high power graphics card, but price will be $799.

And, the MacBook Pro gets a 13" model, replacing the current MacBook, but thicker and more powerful than the Air, and it will have the multi-touch features and graphics performance of the 15" and 17" MacBook.

Also, the 13", 15", and 17" MacBooks get an aluminum case mod.

Whew!!
 
This HAS to be a Mac mini replacement

MacRumors Buyer's Guide:
Product: Mac mini
Recommendation: Don't Buy - Updates soon
Last Release: August 07, 2007
Days Since Update: 350 (Avg = 188)

The worst part is, it's 350 days since the last *CPU speed update*. It's not even a new revision! :eek:

Either the Mac mini is getting replaced by a less powerful and cheaper Mac nano (earth-shattering news: everyone can now afford a Mac) or it's getting replaced by a more powerful and more expensive Mac.. erm... something (also earth-shattering news: Apple finally releases a decent spec'ed, decently priced not all-in-one computer).
 
MickdyMickdyMAC said:
If that screen is touch, then that keyboard is gone in favor of a full size touch keyboard.
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No imagine this: the display is no permanently attached to the keyboard. The hinge-Part at the display has a little hole left and right and you can just attach the keyboard if you want it. That woulb be nice nice tablets are cool and all, but using one at a desk sucks because it lays flat on the table. This attachment keyboard would make the display/tablet stand up like a laptop screen and offer a real keyboard.

Or maybe the keyboard is like a docking station with a USB hub, charger for the tablet's battery etc. Want to do design stuff? Then just slide the display all the way to the front so they keaboard does not distract you. Need to type something, push the display backwards and there's your keyboard. It's genious, I tell you! Way better than the twisty-breaky hinge those tablet-laptops out there have.
 
Man, I sure hope the new MacBooks get announced no later than September! I need to get one for school and I don't want to go into school laptop-less. ;)
 
Could it be a...

Could the new product be the return of the Newton. I remembering reading a rumor about a new newton device coming out. But now I think of it this would just be a larger screen on a iPod touch. So this posting was a waste of web space. Sorry gang.
 
KT Walrus said:
My money is on new iPod Touch models including one with a much bigger screen, GPS, and built-in microphone/video camera for portable iChat. Resolution should be around 800x600.
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no way if it didn't come out for the new 3g Iphone, they won't give portable Ichat to itouch...I down for a tablet
 
When apple talks 'transitions', they talk about major changes to existing products. Examples: 68k -> PPC, OS9 -> OSX, PPC -> x86. We not not likely talking about a tablet or a handheld.


The answer is simple.

A few observations about my MacBook Pro:

I use the keyboard & the display everyday.
I use the hard drive & ram every day.
I use the USB2/FW/DVI/Enet & other ports every day.
I use the trackpad and iSight every day.

I use the CD/DVD drive once every ... well ... almost never.



Goodbye optical drives. Forever.

Apple killed the floppy too remember?
 
Apple-Man23 said:
I sorry but what is with the total obsession that some people have with BlueRay??? in my opinion a blue ray drive has no business being inside a mbp. Perhaps i could see it as a BTO option for the mac pro but it just is not practical for notebooks
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Hey, folks! Apple is a company currently valued at $147 billion. Don't you think that there are a sea of metrics people in marketing who receive hundreds of feature requests each day, not from us, but from Apple's biggest customers? And don't you think that a lot of those customers, who tend to be in the design and artistry worlds, don't ask incessantly for a next-generation video storage device?

Come on... use some logic. :rolleyes:
 
CyberBob859 said:
I'm guessing that they officially retire the iPod Classic line and introduce an iPod Touch with a hard drive.
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I think one argument against this has always been that an HD is not fast enough for the touch OS. Maybe 2.0 will address that.

The other is that an HD would make the device far thicker than Apple wants.
 
I think you guys are giving Apple too much credit on what "transition" and "new product" means. You got to ask yourself, after all that R&D into the iPhone is there any resource left to branch and fork out engineering groups to do something totally radical like an iTablet?

My guess is for "transition" is that the Cinema displays will finally have iSight. Why? because Mac Pro has no iSight option unless you can find a used or rare one online. They don't even carry that in-store anymore. Plus as I recall, Jobs did say in the Leopard presentation that all computers will have iSight built-in. So there you go for new products. Probably lower the price on some products and refresh cosmetic changes on the Macbook (Pro) lines. Don't expect too much from this statement.

At the next Macworld, you will probably see a new transitional product like a AppleTV with TV tuner and recorder? Time Capsule becoming iNAS with RAID support and removable disks? However, I do hope Apple can surprise me. Proud Macbook Air and iPhone owner but certainly think this is more hype than what you are all thinking about that is coming. Sorry to burst your bubbles guys!
 
I heard it was going to be a iPhone Pro
160GB HDD
4G Cellphone technology with hologram technology
Builtin teleport to close to anyone with another iPhone Pro
:D
 
Yebot said:
When apple talks 'transitions', they talk about major changes to existing products. Examples: 68k -> PPC, OS9 -> OSX, PPC -> x86. We not not likely talking about a tablet or a handheld.


The answer is simple.

A few observations about my MacBook Pro:

I use the keyboard & the display everyday.
I use the hard drive & ram every day.
I use the USB2/FW/DVI/Enet & other ports every day.
I use the trackpad and iSight every day.

I use the CD/DVD drive once every ... well ... almost never.



Goodbye optical drives. Forever.

Apple killed the floppy too remember?
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Fine, as long as it is an option for you to opt out of and not a lack of availability for people that want optical.
 
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