MacBook Air to get 'imminent' speed bump?

A new model would be nice. Then the price of the 1.6Ghz would go down.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B0006HU4DK/ansi-20/

Maybe the MacBook Air IS the new MacBook?

The speed bump may be "imminent", but you can't get an "imminent" speed bump.

I'm not usually the grammar police, but come on TUAW.

>however the hard drive version of the
>MacBook Air will likely be upgraded
>to 120 GB, and optionally 160 GB,
>due to falling prices for 1.8-inch hard drives.

This is the bit that makes me question the whole article. The reason that the hard drive capacity on the Air tops out at 80Gb is not the cost of 1.8 inch drives, but the fact that the Air is so thin that a single platter 1.8 inch hard drive is all that will fit in the enclosure and 80Gb drives are the largest that exist. These have been around for just on a year, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if Toshiba or Samsung have a 100Gb drive in time for the next Air. 120Gb strikes me as just possible (but not very likely), but a 160Gb single platter drive just isn't going to happen on that timescale. (Toshiba does have a 5400rpm single platter 80Gb drive though. That would certainly improve performance but not capacity).

I don't believe the "full power Penryn" part either. The low voltage chips will give speeds at least as good as the present Air but with less heat and longer battery life. I think that means more to the market for the Air that a bit more CPU speed.

3ghz? "Introducing the MacBook Air, Griddle Edition!"

oh and a nice tablet too

if only they would do the same for the mac mini

How about a price drop on a laptops...
I'm still dreaming for a 13" macbook pro...

Won't the speed bump make it thicker? I hope they implement a speed increase instead.

it's about time apple seemed to get at least somewhat more interested in computers again and not the iPhone. i'm so tired of hearing about nothing but the iPhone when apple's notebooks and displays have been untouched for years now!