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18 December 2006, 16:02
Apple is working on a 12-inch ultra thin MacBook Pro.
Launch a 12-inch MacBook Pro Apple, please...
We've been talking about a "MacBook Thin" since before Apple transitioned its laptops to the Intel platform -- and it looks like the long-awaited Macintel ultra-thin, ultra-portable speed king is heading to market at last!
Ultraportable MacBook Specs Leaked?
Looks like the rumors surrounding that 12-inch MacBook Pro we spoke of earlier are starting to beef up. The gang at Mac OS Rumors is convinced Apple is working on a MacBook "Thin" and have listed all the specs they got from their "trusted sources in Cupertino and Southeast Asia." Apple may be working on an ultraportable, but we call BS on this "leak." Here's why.
Apple fanboys may wanna believe that's possible, but fitting all of that in a chassis that's supposed to be thinner than the current MBP? Keep dreaming. Compare that to the MacBook (which has integrated graphics and tops out at 2GHz) and you'll realize those specs are way too high to be real. As much as I'd love a thinner MacBook Pro for the holidays, this is beyond wishful thinking
We can unequivocably confirm that such an ultraportable Macintel laptop exists -- not only that it exists, but that recent rumblings on the grapevine have been unusually close to the mark.
The key mission of the "Thin" project was to scale down the size of Pro features without compromising them. The Thin is intended to be the fastest, most feature-rich ultraportable laptop on the market.
Without further ado, here are the specs we have been told to expect based on exhaustive recon from trusted sources in Cupertino and Southeast Asia:
My 12-inch PowerBook has just turned three years old and it’s really struggling these days.
With its 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor and 512MB of RAM it seems to have given up the ghost running iPhoto recently, let alone PhotoShop.
I have to save everything onto an external hard drive because there is rarely ever more than 1GB of space left on this drive (it has only 37.14GB to offer). Sometimes I wonder where all the space goes…
And I have to move over to Emma’s Power Mac every time I need to burn a DVD, because I’m lacking a SuperDrive…
So, I hear you ask, why haven’t you upgraded?
Well. I reply. I want a 12-inch MacBook Pro. That’s why.
Apple’s portable range right now really doesn’t offer me what I need more than any of the above. It doesn’t offer small and light.
For all its faults, my 12-inch PowerBook offers me the most important feature of all. I can carry it home at the weekends when I have work to do, and I can carry it around with me when I’m at Macworld San Francisco and other similar events. A 15-inch MacBook Pro is too heavy and a 13-inch MacBook is too heavy – plus I’d really rather have the sleek aluminium casing anyway.
It has to be small and light or it’s just not doing it’s job as far as I’m concerned. So, I sincerely hope that Apple designer Jonathan Ive has been busily designing a smaller MacBook Pro for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to show of at Macworld San Francisco. Who cares about the iPhone, it’s the MacBook Pro I’m waiting for.
The general grapevine consensus seems to be that the Thin will ship in earnest within 10 weeks, and be announced in about six. Stay tuned for regular updates on this and every other Mac-related topic here on the Original Mac Rumor Site!
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