@ Scottsdale, early as next January, that seems optimistic 
i reckon Q1 2015 with Ivy Bridge Processors will be our next update
i reckon Q1 2015 with Ivy Bridge Processors will be our next update 
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I am pretty sure you were joking but your post presents a good platform for a serious comment anyway. It seems to me that sometime around the first of the year is going to be now or never time for the MBA. If it hasn't been updated by then, I strongly suspect that it never will be.@ Scottsdale, early as next January, that seems optimistic
Yes i was joking, it's so hard to show sarcasm with text lol, Ivy Bridge is coming Q4 2012, and it would be a killer in the MBA, and i'm agreeing with both you and Scottsdale, if we don't see a new MBA by January 2011 (3 year anniversary?) then we never will
Wouldn't they EOL it if they had no intention of revisiting it at some point? The fast that they updated the page today is small comfort at least.
if your going to wait... try this!
I pulled out my old Pismo and used it for a week. At first, it was kinda painful: had to run adblock with flash block to surf the web, but for email and word processing and light surfing it was fine (consider that its 10 year old G3!). Then switched back the to my g4 running leopard - man it felt like a smoking fast feather weight next to my Pismo!
Note : in retrospect I got more work done with my g3 ! I never realized ho much time I wasted on youtube, and other sites, once thats gone...
I pulled out my old Pismo and used it for a week. At first, it was kinda painful: had to run adblock with flash block to surf the web, but for email and word processing and light surfing it was fine (consider that its 10 year old G3!). Then switched back the to my g4 running leopard - man it felt like a smoking fast feather weight next to my Pismo!
Note : in retrospect I got more work done with my g3 ! I never realized ho much time I wasted on youtube, and other sites, once thats gone...
Disc Drive in the MacBook Air
It's really a shame they didn't update the MacBook Air at WWDC this year. I was thinking yesterday though about the Mac Mini and the MBA, and they made the MIni smaller and sleeker this year, and that maybe the Mac Mini had about the same volume as the MBA. After going and getting the measurements and finding the volume of each machine, the Mac Mini has 83 cubed inches, and the MBA has 86.5 cubed inches.
Also, the current Mac Mini can have much more hard drive space, 320 or 500 GB and the Mac Mini only 120 GB. And the Mac Mini has faster processors available as well, 2.4 or 2.66 GHz, compared to the MBA's 1.86 or 2.13 GHz. And they fit a disc drive in the Mini. Either a big MBA update is coming soon, or they're discontinuing it, and I think it's the latter.
It's really a shame they didn't update the MacBook Air at WWDC this year. I was thinking yesterday though about the Mac Mini and the MBA, and they made the MIni smaller and sleeker this year, and that maybe the Mac Mini had about the same volume as the MBA. After going and getting the measurements and finding the volume of each machine, the Mac Mini has 83 cubed inches, and the MBA has 86.5 cubed inches.
Also, the current Mac Mini can have much more hard drive space, 320 or 500 GB and the Mac Mini only 120 GB. And the Mac Mini has faster processors available as well, 2.4 or 2.66 GHz, compared to the MBA's 1.86 or 2.13 GHz. And they fit a disc drive in the Mini. Either a big MBA update is coming soon, or they're discontinuing it, and I think it's the latter.
You're forgetting the MBA has a rather large battery inside of it...
And the MBA is pointlessly thin towards the edges, the Mac Mini is the perfection of form and function, the MBA is form over function, by a long way.
And the MBA is pointlessly thin towards the edges, the Mac Mini is the perfection of form and function, the MBA is form over function, by a long way.
I wouldn't call the mini design perfect: Putting the SD slot up front would make a lot more sense than the back, and the internal power supply is a huge step backwards for those using the mini as a server. Power supplies fail often, and internal ones take MUCH longer to replace.
I dunno it's not a big hardship to reach to the back and plug it in, plus at the front it would wreck the nice design, as for the internal power supply I think it's brilliant for the consumer version, but I can understand it for the server edition.
Timing
Scottsdale... What do you think -- in terms of possible synchronicity to an
Air update -- of the new rumor about... 60 days until an announcement of an iMac with an iOS layer on top of the O/S, so that it can have a touch screen?
Another opportunity to bundle an Air announcement with some other announcement?
That rumor is said to have a weak source... some blog I never heard of. The one thing that could conceivably ring true about it would be -- it would be big enough to partly fulfill the official Apple remarks about this year having a strong amount of new items, and "taking it to the next level". Really... the new phone CAN'T be ALL of "the next level"... (a better screen plus videocalling on wi-fi only... the latter being a feature of interest to less than half of phone users).
If Apple has AMD make a new chip for the Air... or at least Apple gets it first... could the FIRST we hear of it be -- Apple's Air announcement?
Scottsdale... What do you think -- in terms of possible synchronicity to an
Air update -- of the new rumor about... 60 days until an announcement of an iMac with an iOS layer on top of the O/S, so that it can have a touch screen?
Another opportunity to bundle an Air announcement with some other announcement?
That rumor is said to have a weak source... some blog I never heard of. The one thing that could conceivably ring true about it would be -- it would be big enough to partly fulfill the official Apple remarks about this year having a strong amount of new items, and "taking it to the next level". Really... the new phone CAN'T be ALL of "the next level"... (a better screen plus videocalling on wi-fi only... the latter being a feature of interest to less than half of phone users).
If Apple has AMD make a new chip for the Air... or at least Apple gets it first... could the FIRST we hear of it be -- Apple's Air announcement?
I can't imagine that an Apple Store employee has reliable information about the future of the MBA. Those guys are characteristically kept as much in the dark as we are.
celo48: nah...
... that was just a salesperson saying whatever seemed like it might reel in the customer.
A sales associate in a store is someone way too low on Apple's food chain, to have any insider info.
IMHO better forecasting is to be found on a blog like this... from an Airophile like Scottsdale...
... Probably it gets revised very early next year. And it's easy to guess that since they passed up the chance to bump the Air's specs a bit, a la the Macbook and Mac Mini recently) they're probably saving up several changes for that early 2011 revision.
... that was just a salesperson saying whatever seemed like it might reel in the customer.
A sales associate in a store is someone way too low on Apple's food chain, to have any insider info.
IMHO better forecasting is to be found on a blog like this... from an Airophile like Scottsdale...
... Probably it gets revised very early next year. And it's easy to guess that since they passed up the chance to bump the Air's specs a bit, a la the Macbook and Mac Mini recently) they're probably saving up several changes for that early 2011 revision.
Although I am not prepared to dismiss the possibility that Apple might discontinue the MBA, I continue to think the chances it will be updated are greater than the chances that it be discontinued.
I also feel this way. I also think a salesperson at the Apple Store has no more information than a regular reader of the rumor sites has. It's just conjecture.
Thank you for this forum!
Hey guys,
I signed up purely to give thanks to you all for such a massive insight to the MBA cycle... particular thanks to Scottsdale, his words to forget about the update if you need something now have really sold me.
I have *never* owned a laptop and in fact never owned a mac but I just signed a 3 month contract for work over in Singapore (i'm Australia based) and I will be heading to LA next week to present at SIGGRAPH and then after the Singapore job i'm off to Rio for more work!
My dad has traveled for work for YEARS and i've seen him struggle with weight so I know that I need something as light as possible and the MBA was definitely my favourite until I heard about the potential update...
I think I will grab the MBA and if an update comes then i'll get that and surprise my girlfriend with a new laptop
Cheers guys!
Hey guys,
I signed up purely to give thanks to you all for such a massive insight to the MBA cycle... particular thanks to Scottsdale, his words to forget about the update if you need something now have really sold me.
I have *never* owned a laptop and in fact never owned a mac but I just signed a 3 month contract for work over in Singapore (i'm Australia based) and I will be heading to LA next week to present at SIGGRAPH and then after the Singapore job i'm off to Rio for more work!
My dad has traveled for work for YEARS and i've seen him struggle with weight so I know that I need something as light as possible and the MBA was definitely my favourite until I heard about the potential update...
I think I will grab the MBA and if an update comes then i'll get that and surprise my girlfriend with a new laptop
Cheers guys!
Although I didn't think what the Apple Store employee told you was credible I thought you were right to pass what he said on to us. After all, a rumor doesn't necessarily have to be true and without rumors there would be no Mac Rumors.
I've been waiting for the past few months and I guess we won't see an update anytime soon. I'll stick to my Rev C. Anyone else have a problem with the track button scratching the top screen bezel? If so, what did you do?
Don't worry, Apple store employees don't know anything more than the rest of us. I've been working at an Apple store for one year and I was hoping to receive some inside info every now and then, but alas. Store employees generally tend to pretend that they know more than us, it's just the consequence of being blessed with the honor to sell products of a brand that everybody loves and people want to know about
Employees who don't recommend he Air even when it's obvious that you want one should be fired. They didn't learn anything from Apple's marvelous professionals trainings.