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Rumor: Apple to discontinue 17-inch MacBook Pro model

In addition to Microsoft pulling its Office 2011 SP2 update, here’s your other piece of potential bad news for the day: Per AppleInsider, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities predicted on Monday that Apple is “likely to stop making” the 17-inch MacBook Pro this year. He cited falling shipments with the company’s top-of-the-line notebook as […]

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Rumor: Apple to begin production of 200,000 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks in April, 400,000 13-inch MacBook Pro notebooks in June

It won’t be long now. Per DigiTimes, Apple is gearing up to begin production of its new thinner and lighter MacBook Pros, with production of the new 15-inch model set to begin first in mid-April. Mass production of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will see initial monthly shipments of 200,000 units, according to the web […]

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Hardware iMac Rumor

Rumor: Apple’s 2012 iMac to feature anti-reflective displays

Because rumors make technology interesting. Per DigiTimes, a completely redesigned family of Apple’s iMacs due for release later this year will not only arrive noticeably slimmer than existing models but may also be the first of the company’s desktops to feature anti-reflective displays. The Taiwanese rumor publication has claimed that G-Tech is ramping up its […]

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Rumor: Thinner, 13 and 15-inch next-gen MacBook Pro units could arrive as early as April

The new stuff’s en route, you’ll just have to be a bit patient. New 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with a thinner and lighter design are expected to launch in April “at the soonest,” with an initial shipment of just under a million units. Per DigiTimes, sources in Apple’s upstream supply chain have indicated indicated […]

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Intel to delay launch of Ivy Bridge processors by 8-10 weeks

You know, nobody really LIKES the person who tells them “better late than never”, even though that person tends to be right. That being said, Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processors, sized at 22 nanometers and expected to appear in Apple’s updated Mac lineup, will become available eight to 10 weeks later than originally planned, one […]