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 […]
Tag: Ivy Bridge
There’s gotta be some truth to this somewhere… Per DigiTimes, Intel has moved up the announcement of its next-generation Ivy Bridge processors from the original date of April 29 to April 23 as PC makers ready the second generation of ultrabooks, expected to arrive in May. The publication claimed on Thursday that sources from notebook […]
It’s the benchmarks that make an upcoming technology that much more interesting. Per CPU World, a series of benchmark tests demonstrates how the much-anticipated Ivy Bridge architecture in the upcoming MacBook Pro notebooks could show fairly significant improvements in performance, particularly in graphics. The chip being tested was the Core i7-3820QM, a 2.7 GHz processor […]
When the current supplies dwindle, interesting things are about to happen. Per AppleInsider, multiple authorized resellers this week are reflecting stock-outs of 15-inch MacBook Pros, suggesting that Apple is ramping down production of existing models before introducing redesigned offerings that will largely resemble the company’s increasingly popular line of ultra-slim MacBook Airs. Among those resellers […]
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 […]