Neil Hughes
Alleged availability dates for some of Apple's anticipated upcoming products were reported on Tuesday, pegging new MacBook Pros to launch in just over a week, with the revamped Mac Pro desktop apparently set to debut in mid November.
The alleged dates come from French site MacG.co, which believes new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros will be available for sale either Oct. 24 or 25. It's expected that Apple's new professional-grade notebooks will feature Intel's latest-generation Haswell processors, which offer significant savings in power consumption, thus improving battery life.
As for the new Mac Pro, which Apple already gave a sneak peek at earlier this year, the site claims that the new desktop will be available for delivery on Nov. 15.
The site also claims that Apple's fifth-generation iPad and second-generation iPad mini will go on sale either Oct. 30 or 31. It's unclear whether that would be the date orders would begin, or if the devices would be available to physically have in hand.
The iPad dates are somewhat suspect, as Apple traditionally launches new iOS products on Fridays. For example, last year the Wi-Fi-only versions of the first-generation iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad went on sale Nov. 2, on their way to total sales of 3 million total units in the first three days of availability.
Apple is expected to announce dates for multiple new products at a media event anticipated for Oct. 22. With that date just a week away, it's likely that invitations to members of the press will be sent out later today.
Wesley Hilliard
Malcolm Owen
Andrew O'Hara
Andrew Orr
120 Comments
hope the MacPro roll-out isn't a repeat of late 2012 iMac roll-out.....
Wishes he could afford a Mac Pro...I'm very curious as to what the price of this awesome Mac will be. I'm sure it will be through the roof and people will whine and complain like they were going to buy one but now aren't. I'm expecting it to be in the $2500+ range. Remember folks...this is a professional workstation. Its not meant to for normal everyday Mac users like most of us.
Apple, what the heck are you doing? You really don't care about the Pro market anymore, huh? This new Mac Pro better be worth the wait and it better be VERY well priced.
So if one of the selling points of the MacPro is that it can swivel around for easy access to its ports, how is one to do that with a huge, rigid, 3-prong power cord hanging off the back? From experience those power supply cords are not the most cooperative when you want them to stay in any certain position. Seems like you would have to power down and unplug the machine first.
Apple, what the heck are you doing? You really don't care about the Pro market anymore, huh? This new Mac Pro better be worth the wait and it better be VERY well priced.
Or else what? Do you think Apple is just sitting on their asses attending to the Mac Pro when they feel like it? I can tell you now its probably not gonna be priced cheap. It not made for people looking for a cheap Mac. If Apple didn't care about the Pro market they wouldn't be making a new Mac Pro, or maybe any Mac Pro for that matter. They wouldn't have Macs like the MacBook Pro, etc.
I'm sure theres a lot of behind the scenes things going on and getting ironed out that you, nor I think about. Getting production going in a US facility (US Assembled) probably isn't easy. Theres a lot of things to get worked out before it can go into full blown production. I'm thinking they're also trying to get the new version of Final Cut Pro out the door as well so it can ship along side the new MacPro. A lot of stuff going on for a complete and hopefully successful rollout.