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Apple Prepping 11.6'' MacBook Air and New iPod Touch with 3MP Camera

Thursday July 15, 2010 5:31 am PDT by Arnold Kim

Digitimes reports that Apple is preparing two updates for the second half of 2010. The first is said to be an 11.6-inch MacBook Air featuring a Intel Core i-series ultra-low voltage processor. An 11.6-inch display would be notably smaller than the current 13.3-inch screen found in the current MacBook Air.

Kuo, citing discussions with upstream component makers, noted that the 11.6-inch MacBook Air will feature an even slimmer and lighter design than the previous-generation models and the technologies used for the design and concept are expected to be broadly used in the company's other product lines to boost their competitiveness.

Meanwhile, Digitimes adds some details to the new iPod Touch that is expected this fall.

The new iPod touch will feature a 3-megapixel camera, capable of both photo and video recording, and will adopt Apple's latest A4 processor, which is also used in the iPhone 4.

The new iPod Touch was expected to share the A4 processor found in the iPhone 4 and iPad, but the exact camera specs have been up for debate.
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peapody
21 months ago
wow!

I would pick up that 11.6 and get rid of my ipad if that were true.
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attila
21 months ago
"We don't know how to build a $500 laptop that is not a piece of junk"

Well, welcome to the netbook market, Apple! (hope it's $500 or less)
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DylanLikesPorn
21 months ago
Is the air still relevant?
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kernkraft
21 months ago
There is your expensive Apple netbook! (Of course it will be more expensive than $500. I expect it to start at $1299)
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burningbright
21 months ago
would be a good idea about the MBA- at the moment it isn't *that* much more portable than the 13" MBP. Just hope the graphics would be half-decent...
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dazzer21
21 months ago
...that's a netbook, isn't it? Maybe it folds out to A2 size!
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Warbrain
21 months ago
Sounds like a netbook...

so it smells like ********.
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rhb
21 months ago

I would pick up that 11.6 and get rid of my ipad if that were true.


Yeah, see? I think this is smart on Apple's part -- quite likely testing the break point between traditional laptops (however small) running full-on OS, and alternate devices running the iOS, touchy, app-dependent architecture. How small is too small, how powerful is powerful enough, etc.

Once they figure this out (and the MBA is a great guinea pig, because it's not a huge sales driver), they can confidently introduce iOS devices below that break point, and more fully-fledged OSX devices above it.

Unless of course the plan is to migrate everything to iOS eventually, in which case nevermind.:o
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Oflife
21 months ago
...when does a 'pod' become a 'pad'? (or vice versa!)
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khunsanook
21 months ago

"We don't know how to build a $500 laptop that is not a piece of junk"

Well, welcome to the netbook market, Apple! (hope it's $500 or less)


Judging my the current MBA, the price of a smaller sibling will at least be as expensive as a MacBook.
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