Well it’s been rumored almost exactly to the day since the Apple “Let’s Rock” event and today it’s been confirmed: New laptop’s on October 14th!
Several rumors are:
- A new design for the Macbook Pro’s and Macbook’s
- An all glass multi-touch trackpad for the Macbook Pro’s with “enhanced” multi-touch controls.
- An entirely new Macbook in the sub-$1000 area.
- Possibly the option for a larger screen size on the Macbook and/or Macbook Pro’s.
- The Macbook Pro’s getting quad-core chips (not really a rumor, just a hope).
- Nvidia GPUs in the Macbook line.
- Cheaper overall Macbook’s and Macbook Pro’s.
For that last bit, that would only be possible with the highly rumored Apple Brick manufacturing method. In short Apple uses water jets and the like to cut the entire laptop case out of a brick of aluminum. This significantly cuts production costs as this would be done in the US (not China) and would only need a minimum number of staff to oversight it. I highly believe this to be true as the same source for this rumor correctly predicted the iPod Touch, Fat Nano and the Macbook Air (to name a few).
That’s all for now folks. I’ll do another blog post on the 14th (or maybe before if another plausible rumor appears).
