Piper Jaffray analyst predicts Sept. MacBook updates
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is speculating that Apple will hold a special event in early September to announce new iPods and MacBooks, according to a research note he released.
Munster is bullish on seeing Apple enter the sub-$1,000 market for its MacBook line, and has been saying so since last month. He also anticipates a new form factor for the MacBook Pro line, noting that its exterior design (and that of its predecessor, the PowerBook G4) has only slightly changed over the last five-and-a-half years.
In the same note, he suggested that larger-capacity iPod shuffles and nanos are on the way, but with no change in pricing. He said that the iPod touch could even be redesigned and priced at $199.
Looking into the future, Munster said he thinks a touchscreen Mac portable isn't ready now, but could be available closer to 2010, while a redesigned (even smaller) MacBook Air could hit store shelves next year.
[Via Barron's.]
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The new MacBook Air may be getting a new processor...
http://www.apple-group.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3722
I have it from a good source that the new macbook pros will feature the new quad core mobile chip from Intel, which will be fully utilized at the beginning of next year when Snow Leopard is released with its grand central technology.
They may differentiate the macbook and macbook pro models by continuing to use dual cores in the lower-end macbooks, which will now also have aluminum bodies.
I am an analyst.
Can someone please tell me how or in what way they could possibly update the iPod Touch? Speaker? Maybe, but they won't put in Bluetooth.
All it would be is a $50 price drop and a memory upgrade.
his predictions are basically a coinflip, just like every other "analyst":
http://www.applerumortracker.com/piper.html
refreshed macs and ipods in the 3rd quarter?!?! thanks mr. obvious.
It seems that Apple always announces notebooks in late Sept/early Oct. because they deplete their stock of current gen notebooks and ipods with the back to school promos.
Am I an analyst now?
Better to be an analyst than an analrapist! ;-)
August 07 2008 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply'New 'form factor'?
Is that a new 'shape' or even, 'form?
A sub-$1000 Macbook? Sign me up. I'll sell my EeePC for it.
Maybe Apple will actually take a page from the successful netbook market and release a true subnotebook. Though I would probably have a Macbook Air if I had the cash, it's certainly not capable enough on it's own without owning a desktop or other laptop, but it is more expensive than the desktop. What's up with that? A $500 9" Macbook with limited but not super-tiny-and-overpriced hardware would be an instant buy for me.
Wow this guy hasn't said anything we haven't already thought of.
I guess because he has a "well" known name he can say something as redundant as this and have people make a buzz about it.
Maybe the plural of ancedote is fact on the mac side of things.
August 07 2008 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyQUICKLY!!! EVERYONE CALL THEM SELF AN ANALYST AND RAMPANTLY SPECULATE!!!
Seriously, show me some evidence to back up these claims.
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