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Citing sources in the upstream supply chain, DigiTimes reported on Monday that component shipments are expected to pick up significantly in June as Apple ramps up production. Those shipments are forecast to peak in July once full capacity is realized.
Industry sources expect Apple will see year-over-year growth of as much as 50 percent in MacBook shipments in 2012. That would easily best the average 8 to 10 percent growth seen by the rest of the notebook PC market.
Monday's report indicated there is a "high chance" that Apple will announce its next-generation MacBooks at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, set to kick off on June 11. The new notebooks could also debut with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple's next-generation operating system, as AppleCare training data has pointed toward a June launch.
The supply chain reportedly began providing components to Apple for its next-generation MacBooks in March, and orders continued to increase in April and May. That pattern is expected to continue over the coming months as the notebooks hit the market.
Earlier reports had indicated Apple would revamp its MacBook lineup in April, while some claimed they would launch as early as March. But Monday's report suggests that Apple plans to hold off until mid-June, allowing the company to potentially introduce the devices at a keynote presentation to kick off WWDC.
The new MacBook lineup is expected to feature Intel's latest-generation Ivy Bridge processors, while the MacBook Pro lineup will receive a major redesign giving it many of the characteristics of Apple's thin-and-light MacBook Air. The new MacBook Pros are expected to lose the built-in optical drive and rely largely on solid-state flash memory to allow for a thinner design along with faster performance and greater reliability.
Intel formally launched its Ivy Bridge line of processors late last month with 13 quad-core models from the high-end Core i5 and Core i7 families. New dual-core models are set to be launched later in the spring.
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Makes perfect sense. Mountain Lion 10.8 will likely be pre-installed and there hasn't been a WWDC that included Macs since 2009. So, WWDC 2012: Two new OS's, 10.8 and iOS6, the introduction of plenty of hardware goodness, and not to mention Retina displays on at least some of the Macs, which I'd stand in line for. :D Let's hope they're going to be IPS panels, too! Great stuff!
EDIT: Another rumor suggests that USB 3.0 will be adopted by Apple across the board. It makes sense since the new Intel 7 series chipset will incorporate USB 3.0 as well as Thunderbolt. Apple would have to literally disable USB 3.0 and while they have done stuff like that in the past, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they won't. Maybe it's time I put my 6-month "old" and loaded 17" MacBook Pro for sale? That should get me into a new 15" Retina MacBook...Decision, decisions.
[quote name="Crunch" url="/t/150058/suppliers-gearing-up-for-launch-of-apples-new-macbooks-in-june-report#post_2109617"]EDIT: Another rumor suggests that USB 3.0 will be adopted by Apple across the board. It makes sense since the new Intel 7 series chipset will incorporate USB 3.0 as well as Thunderbolt. Apple would have to literally disable USB 3.0 and while they have done stuff like that in the past, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they won't. Maybe it's time I put my 6-month "old" and loaded 17" MacBook Pro for sale? That should get me into a new 15" Retina MacBook...Decision, decisions. [/quote] That's my feeling on this since the first USB3.0 chips hit the market and Intel said they would make it part of a future chipset. If they don't include USB3.0 despite it being added as part of the chipset expect me to first in line to cry foul on Apple.
The beginning of the end for IEEE 1394.
I actually think Apple should flatten the next MacBook Pro to look more like an U410 rather than a MacBook Air.
Something like...
Just my 10 cents my 2 cents is free... The mock ups people offer up seem to point to tb on one side and MagSafe on the other. With the current displays would that work? I have the display port 27" cinema did they increase the length of the cables, because I do not think it would work with the ports on different sides epically the 15 and 17 ( if they keep it)