Want a thinner, lighter and more Air-like MacBook Pro? You’ve only got a couple months or so to wait… provided you want a 15-inch. The 13-inch might take a little longer.
A new report from the sporadically reliable Digitimes says that Foxconn will start building new 15-inch MacBook Pros using Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processors starting in mid-April, following with a big build order of the 13-inch in June.
Apple, which entered into the market of ultra-thin notebooks with its MacBook Air, is also planning to adopt ultra-thin designs for its MacBook Pro product line and is set to start mass producing a 15-inch MacBook Pro in mid-April with initial monthly shipments of 200,000 units. The company will then mass produce a 13-inch model in June with initial monthly shipments of 300,000-400,000 units.
The delay of the 13-inch model seems like it might be a misunderstanding on Digitimes’s part. Earlier reports suggested that the energy-efficient Ivy Bridge processors suitable for the MacBook Air line would be delayed until June. Given that Apple is making twice as many of the 13-inches in June as they are the 15-inch in April, we’d speculate that the 13-inch model isn’t a redesigned MacBook Pro, but an updated MacBook Air.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “Apple Will Start Building Quad-Core, Air-Like 15-Inch MacBook Pros In April”
No optical drive?
Will the 17-inch model remain the standard ‘MBP’ form factor with optical drive, or will it also receive a redesign?
i can’t wait to update my late 09 macbook pro :D
I`m betting the 17″ MBP is discontinued.
I`m typing on one now so that`s a shame but I could live with a 15″ upgrade.
:)
do you means something like the MacBook Touch :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R92jQtQuhuA
I wonder about the GPUs they’ll put in these? hmmmmmm
Digitimes is notoriously unreliable. There is a 35w Quadcore OEM Ivybridge scheduled to be released 29th April. I would say this is likely to be the MBP 13″ processor.
So when will the new MBP 15 inch actually be released?
I jumped on the MacBook Pro bandwagon when the 15” pro received the unibody update. Although my comp still runs as smooth and looks as good as the day I bought it…A 15” MacBook Pro stuffed inside a thin MacBook Air like design is my dream computer! If the tech heavens have any mercy, this won’t just be a load of rubbish.
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