Is that in addition to the MBP's that they are producing, or are they switching production to the MacBook?

Where are all the Apple is doomed articles?

does anyone know how many macbooks are slated to be produced then?

is it me, or is 4.5 million a lot? I'd think that 4.5 million macbooks is enough to start pushing software developers toward mac software.

Spread over the entire year, that's about how many notebooks Apple currently sells, the current estimate is 1.1 million a quarter. Some of those are the pro units, but it's probably safe to say that the Mac Book has the dominant share. In short, this offers very significant room for growth, assuming Apple doesn't reduce the number of notebooks it asks Foxconn to make.

I smell a 12" MacBook Pro in the near future
I could only dream.

1.1 million Macbooks per quarter, here we come.

Yeah but that's only one of the manufacturers. If you ask me I couldn't care about this news.

Does anyone know of a site--or better yet a chart--that predicts the marketshare of Apple over upcoming quarters?

So does that mean 4.5 Million from Quanta, ~3 Million from Asus and ~ 2 Million from Foxconn??

That looks like 10 Million Mac notebook capacity they have. ( Someone correct me if i am wrong )

Considering they only sold 8 million Mac ( Notebook + Desktop ) this looks like a very high figure.

I don't know where you got your number for total models sold. Apple sold 5.3 million units last year.