According to a new report by Mac Rumors, Apple’s 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros are in short supply, possibly indicating a refresh is due soon.
Here’s Eric Slivka:
The 17″ MacBook Pro generally appears to be in the shortest supply at the moment, with Amazon quoting a shipment window of 1-2 months for the base Core i5 model and several popular resellers connected through Amazon’s systems also showing low stocks of the 17″ models. For its part, Apple continues to show “within 24-hour” availability of all MacBook Pro models in its online stores, suggesting that the company may be prioritizing remaining stock to serve its customers directly.
This type of thing has happened before with Apple’s products, and it’s been 9 months since the last MacBook Pro refresh. While rumors of USB 3 and Light Peak keep surfacing, I think an update would include a slimmer case, more SSD options, and making the SuperDrive a thing of the past, at least on the 13-inch model.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments!
It was October (3 months ago, not 9) that the MBP's were updated. Of course the update was processors in the i5's and i7's. So if you're saying it's been 9 months since an entire update, then yes.
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LikeHaha, I was thinking it might make sense to get a traditional SATA drive in there for storage space, and then the SSD as the primary drive. From what I've heard, a lot of people love OWC's data doubler for that already.
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LikeSuper drives are dead. I took the one out of MBP a while ago. I don't miss it at all. I'm not sure that SSD drives will be the order of the day though, I don't see many professionals being able to handle that kind of storage limitation. Maybe a hybrid/duel hard drive option?
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Likeperhaps more Lion friendly somehow? Apple's hardware is basically a platform for its software. are there any fancy additions to Lion you're aware of that would necessitate or be enhanced by some hardware changes?
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LikeI think Lion will probably require 2GB of RAM. As always, more video RAM, the better.
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