Quanta and Asustek to Produce Intel Macs

Excellent finally intel PB 1st quarter!!

Don't know about you but this article seems a bit odd to me ..."Apple is occupying less and less market share."... I thought Apple marketshare was increasing.
"Apple initially used Apple processors provided exclusively by IBM." Huh?
To my knowledge there is no such thing as an "Apple" processor. They have most recently been using processors from Motorola (Freescale) and IBM.

Does anyone know the accuracy rate for EMSNow?

I gues that why this is a page 2 rumor.

Doesnt seem to reliable. The 1st quarter??? Seems a little late to being production if Macworld SF is the 10th.:confused:

Doesnt seem to reliable. The 1st quarter??? Seems a little late to being production if Macworld SF is the 10th.:confused:

They don't have to be manufacturing Intel Macs in order to announce them and their delivery schedule at MWSF. They only have to be manufacturing them in time to meet the delivery schedule itself.

If this story is to be believed, Apple will announce both an iBook and a PowerBook laptop at or soon after MWSF, with the later known as "PowerBook M1" (whether that is just a codename or not?).

"Apple is occupying less and less market share."... I thought Apple marketshare was increasing.

I assume that the author meant revenue - Apple slashing its prices in order to sell more units and hopefully benefit from economies of scale (means that they make less money on each unit and their laptop lines are less protfitable than HP or DELL until those economies of scale kick in).

There are demonstrably incorrect facts and analysis in this short article. It doesn't mean it isn't correct about the main assertion of the article, but the publication obviously has little experience covering Apple.

I assume that the author meant revenue - Apple slashing its prices in order to sell more units and hopefully benefit from economies of scale (means that they make less money on each unit and their laptop lines are less protfitable than HP or DELL until those economies of scale kick in).

I find that hard to believe considering an article I read yesterday that said that Apple currently gets processors for their laptops at around $75 per unit as opposed to Intel selling Pentium M at around $200 per unit. And Apples laptops are generally a good deal higher in price compared to Dell or HP.

I am not trying to be crual but I think that whoever wrote the article itself probably is unfamiliar to the Mac platform. Some of the things it said were so obviously incorrect that only a person that was unfaliar with Apple's product line would say.

I guess thats the long way of saying that while it's probably true that Quanta and Asustek will be manufacturing the new iBooks and Powerbooks the general information given in the article seemed to be misinforming to me.

There are demonstrably incorrect facts and analysis in this short article. It doesn't mean it isn't correct about the main assertion of the article, but the publication obviously has little experience covering Apple.

Seems like translation issues too...a lot of this is clearly the work of someone with a very poor grasp of English. ;)

IIRC, there have been rumors numerous times in the past about sourcing arrangement changes like this, that have not turned out to be reliable. Like when there was supposed to be a widescreen iBook this year.

If anybody could make a good MB for the Mac it would be Asustek..