Comments on: Apple sub-notebook? http://www.eddiewong.net/2008/01/15/apple-sub-notebook/ ... da sexiest of sexy designers in Tokyo Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: beetle http://www.eddiewong.net/2008/01/15/apple-sub-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-12800 beetle Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:11:38 +0000 http://www.eddiewong.net/2008/01/15/apple-sub-notebook/#comment-12800 One of the reasons you haven't seen any new designs is because Apple wanted to switch over to Intel chips as seemlessly as possible. If they were to introduce new designs during this process, the continuity between old/new would have been broken and people may not have felt comfortable buying an all new machine with a new (to Apple) chip in it. This is starting to change as Apple is slowly moving towards new hardware in the consumer products and will end with the prosumer/professional products last. We will probably see new mac book pros today, but as you can see from recent announcements, the mac pro/xserve/etc. will remain the same for some time. One of the reasons you haven’t seen any new designs is because Apple wanted to switch over to Intel chips as seemlessly as possible. If they were to introduce new designs during this process, the continuity between old/new would have been broken and people may not have felt comfortable buying an all new machine with a new (to Apple) chip in it.

This is starting to change as Apple is slowly moving towards new hardware in the consumer products and will end with the prosumer/professional products last. We will probably see new mac book pros today, but as you can see from recent announcements, the mac pro/xserve/etc. will remain the same for some time.

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