Sources in Apple’s supply chain have revealed to an analyst with Sterne Agee that the company is planning to refresh the rest of its Mac lineup “in upcoming months.” Shaw Wu issued a note to investors yesterday that claimed all Mac products yet to be refreshed this year are “due for refreshes” soon. That includes Apple’s MacBook, MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini computers.
The last update to Apple’s MacBook – the company’s entry-level notebook – came in May 2010. Wu believes an update to this line is especially important as the MacBook currently counts for one-third of Apple’s notebook business, which itself equals 73% of all Mac sales.
The MacBook Air was only refreshed last October, but recent speculation claims Apple will soon swap the notebook’s ageing Core 2 Duo processor for the new Sandy Bridge chip.
The Mac Mini was last updated in June 2010 and the Mac Pro a month later in July. Wu believes the upcoming updates to Apple’s Mac computers will counterbalance “a very minor cannibalistic impact” the iPad 2 could potentially have on the Mac business. The touchscreen tablet has reportedly effected sales of most computers – especially netbooks – in some way since it hit the market.
The MacBook Pro lineup was updated back in February to introduce Intel’s newest Sandy Bridge processors, and the company’s Thunderbolt technology. The iMac family then followed with an update earlier this week to add the same features.
[via AppleInsider]
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
28 responses to “Rest of Apple’s Mac Family to be Refreshed in Coming Months”
No Offence but this is the most obvious & basic mac article I’ve seen in a long time…. It’s common sense that the rest of the lineup will be updated “in coming months” AND that the macbook accounts for roughly a third of notebook sales… there’s 3 main models in the lineup for god’s sake!!
You’ll need abit more ‘meat’ than this to rank up amongst the Daring Fireball’s guys…
you’re correct there’s three main models but I think he means out of the possible 6 models (13″, 15″ 17″ MBP & 11″, 13″ MBA & 13″ macbook) it alone covers 33% of notebook sales…..at least that’s what I got from it.
And I agree..pretty basic article.
I wish for a major update in the Mac Pro line. It’s about time
Duh!
I’d like to see a major update on the MacBook. I still love the MacBook’s polycarbonate, and always will (I love white Apple products), but I don’t see why only one generation of the MacBook was allowed aluminium. They said it was reserved for the MacBook Pro in the laptop Macs, but the 11-inch MacBook air also has it, and they’re the same price. Not to mention the Mac mini, which is cheapest Mac, yet still gets aluminium.
But even if they don’t give it a full-on design change, I’d like to see a Thunderbolt port, and the basic better graphics card, better video card, processor etc., and perhaps a cheaper price.
Exactly. When I saw this mentioned my first thought was ‘sounds like a Shawn Wu statement’
and sure enough
Score! I’m only 200 bucks short for the MacBook Air. Playing the waiting game on this one…c’mon Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge Air!!!
I’m actually hoping for a 15″ MacBook Air…but I very highly doubt it’s very existence. Please Apple…pull a fast one on us all! Dream computer right there…DREAM computer. Sans the ugly silver bezel.
I would like to point out that not every one here is a religious mac nerd who studies the release patterns of mac products. I, for one, am grateful for this little update. And seeing as the title is pretty self explanatory, why did you click it? haha.
Here’s to the entrance of the new mac mini, and the deletion of pointless comments!
Blogging has ushered in a tsunami of poor journalism, but on the bright side, there’s an audience for poor journalism.
So you’ll have to excuse us if some of us came here expecting more details than the obvious title, like approximate dates, or details, or anything more than “computers will be updated, except for already just updated”.
Haha, I think you’re in the wrong place bud. Approximate dates? Details of a product not launched yet? I’m not a mac nerd, but even I’m familiar with their habit of keeping things secret until launch. I think a crystal ball is more the type of thing your looking for.
I think blogging has ushered in more impatient readers than anything else. He points out quite a few things that suggest the mac line will be updated. Take a chill pill man.
Well as you say, you’re not much a Mac nerd so you qualify yourself as ignorant of the topic you’re choosing to defend. Meanwhile good journalists, upon discovering well in advance there would be a Verizon iPhone 4, or the look of the iPhone 4, or the release date of both versions of the iPhone 4, or details of the upcoming iPhone 4S, and then they write articles.
I don’t know how to further educate you, you’ll have to do that on your own. But for starters, the mac line will always be updated, so pointing out things that suggest it will be updated is well, argh, can’t continue to dumb down my brain any longer.I have other newsflashes that you’ll find equally shocking: it will rain sometime in the future! The stock market will go up, and go down, and go up again! Like this article portends: things will happen… sometime!
Take…a chill pill?! Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that’s funny! That’s really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. “Take a chill pill”. You know, I’ve, I’ve never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You’re the first. I’ve never heard anyone reference, reference that really relevant not-tired-at-all saying before. Because that’s what the kids are saying now rightt? Isn’t it? Take a chill pill. And, and yet you’ve taken that and used it in this context to insult me in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart girl you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That’s so fresh too. Any, any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we’re hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity. Perhaps you should tell me i’m the “weakest link, goodbye!” God you’re so funny!*
(*stolen from Seth MacFarlane)
What a cock.Â
No, he’s not a cock, haha. He’s a nerd. You see I have used both mac and pc side by side for about five years now creating music. And while I am familiar with both systems, I don’t apply the term “mac nerd” to myself because I occupy my brain with necessary information that often excludes the kind of info people only use to impress those who know nothing about the system. I couldn’t tell you the type of chip sets in the computer, but I know from experience that they are generally speaking the best at what they are marketed for. I have more important things to do. haha.
And as I said, apple likes to keep things a secret until launch, so expecting a freelance writer to have information on that is a little unreasonable. (I would like to point out that the stock market was a bad example to use, seeing as apple IS a public company, and SUGGESTING is the best people can do in the apple product line, as well as in the market) haha.
And my friends, a sure sign a person is at the end of their argumentative skills when they start attacking the person themselves. So I restate my suggestion for the sake of all of our brains, take a chill pill man.