Saturday, May 12, 2007

Rumors: Details on upcoming Apple laptops


Mac Rumors has a good roundup of the rumors and speculation of upcoming Macbooks, MacBook Pro, and an ultra-portable MacBook which could possible have no optical drive. Interestingly, some of these rumors could become reality by next week according to Macrumors. Keep in mind that all this is speculation and is still rumors at this point.

"ThinkSecret updates with claims that both MacBook and MacBook Pro updates are coming sooner than expected.

The rumor site had previously pegged MacBook Pro updates for WWDC, but now expects an announcement "as early as Tuesday," echoing a previous page 2 rumor by Gizmodo. The new MacBook Pro is expected to utilize features from Intel's recently introduced Santa Rosa chipset.

Appleinsider concurs with this report with their own claim that the MacBook Pro will see features such as "faster front-side bus speeds of 800MHz, and second-generation Core 2 Duo mobile processors that scale up to 2.4GHz." They also believe the new MacBook Pro will house the new LED backlit displays. Appleinsider, however, gives no time frame for the revised Pro laptop..."

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