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发帖数: 3492 | 1 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:21:45 PDT
Just before last month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), KGI
Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo correctly predicted that Apple's MacBook Pro
with Retina display would appear alongside the standard MacBook Pro instead
of as a direct replacement, also accurately claiming that only the 15-inch
Retina MacBook Pro would be making an appearance while a 13-inch model
remained in the works.
At the time, Kuo believed that Apple could have the 13-inch version ready by
August, but in the wake of WWDC he revised his predictions to indicate that
Apple would begin ramping production in September for a launch in October.
Kuo's post-WWDC predictions for Apple's 2012 and 2013 MacBook lineups
Digitimes now reports that while Apple has been included among other PC
vendors amid rumors of delayed or decreased shipments, the company's plans
for the Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro are in fact on track and may even see a
debut "before October" in order to address the back to school market.
As for Apple, the sources pointed out that Apple has demanded its upstream
partners start supplying components for the 13-inch model in the third
quarter and they have not yet heard anything about changing of schedule. As
for when the product will launch, the sources believe the new MacBook Pro
will have a chance to launch before October to catch up with the back-to-
school season.
Apple also did not reduce its shipment forecast for 2012 and is still
expecting its notebook shipments to grow 30% on year, the sources pointed
out.
After a relatively slow start to 2012 as Apple awaited the launch of Intel's
Ivy Bridge processors, the company appears to be setting itself up for a
busy second half of the year. Even after a strong upgrade to its MacBook
Pro and MacBook Air lines at WWDC, Apple still has plenty of products
apparently still in the pipeline, including a new iPhone expected later this
year, rumors of an "iPad mini", 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro models, and an
update to the iMac line. |
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