Captain Obvious called... he reminded me that Apple has never launched laptops at spring events. He reminded me that Apple has always either done silent spec bumps in nov\jan\feb, or done refreshes of the MBA\MBP in front of its target audience at WWDC. Glad Captain called and reminded us all that no matter what we WISH would happen, there's logic and reason still to be considered.
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me too, I need a laptop now, not in June, I am still hoping that they will launch the 12" retina Air on Monday. If they already have been mass producing them since January, I can't see them stockpiling them for 6 months. If Apple fails me Monday
You can't wait 90 days?
Where do you get that they've been mass producing them since January? Do you know anything about how a supply chain process works? If they've been mass producing them since January, they would have been on the shelves for a month already. The cost to sit on produced product is insane, and there's no reason to do it. Why do you think anytime a new product comes out they make it then ship it right from China, even things as simple as a new case or power plug? NO company sits on stockpiles of mass production product for months... or even days normally.
If you're already seeing Monday as an Apple fail for not releasing MBAr, you're in for a sad day of let down. Does anyone here actually know about marketing? When you're talking about a flagship product (which Apple intends to make the Watch, obviously), there's ZERO sense in diluting it with anything that doesn't support it. You have to have iOS 8.2 to support Apple Watch, so they'll likely touch on it... but a laptop? GET REAL! Especially something as new as a retina Air, that's an event\discussion of its own. Apple has never done a whole gamut of products in a day. Every time they have a key note someone says "oh I hope they also update ____" and it never happens.
Set your expectations in line with reality. Monday will be Apple Watch, and iOS 8.2, nothing more whatsoever.
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I really hope there is something interesting that might combine the rMba and ipad pro rumors. Something original in design.
I do love the name the community and media have given the rumored larger iPad. The "iPad Pro" ... lol... so because it's bigger, it's for professionals? Not sure too many professionals would agree. Take a flight... how many "professionals" do you see with 17 inch laptops? How many "professionals" do you see with 30 inch suitcases? The notion that a larger version of an existing product would appeal to a professional is laughable.
I'm a professional (or so I consider myself), and a larger screen doesn't equate to more productivity, ESPECIALLY on a device crippled by Apple's incessancy on the ridiculously oversized icons that make it look like it's designed for a child as it is. On the flip-side, maybe they mean professionals in the design\artistic space? I can't really comment to that because it's not my field, but I do have friends in graphic design, and one in live-editing... and I've never heard any of them talk about how amazing an iPad is for doing that sort of work, and I can't imagine it very effective for photo editing... but that's just based on my limited experience. iOS is the problem, but last time I talked down about iOS I had 20 people clawing at my face telling me how iOS is so amazing and that Apple should continue to cripple what users can do with it and that users don't want more functionality out of their tablets, etc... the wounds are still healing.