“After rescheduling its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report earlier this month due to a ‘scheduling conflict,’ many wondered if Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was planning a product event,” Daniel Sparks writes for The Motley Fool. “Sure enough, the tech giant is set to launch new Macs on Oct. 27, according to a report from Recode on Monday evening.”
“Assuming Apple can begin shipping any announced products soon after its event, an Oct. 27 product event would be well timed. New Macs launching shortly after the event would give Apple a fresh new lineup as it heads into the important holiday season,” Sparks writes. “Further, this would mean Apple would get to show off new Mac products to customers visiting the Apple store to upgrade to the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which were announced in September.”
“It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Apple’s holiday quarter. It is historically the company’s biggest. In Apple’s first fiscal quarter of 2016, for instance, the company posted a record $75.9 billion in quarterly revenue — up 47% from the fiscal fourth quarter of 2015,” Sparks writes. “On average, analysts currently expect revenue during the holiday quarter of $74.6 billion, up a whopping 76% sequentially but down 1.7% year over year. Could hot, new Macs be what Apple needs to push total revenue into year-over-year growth for the quarter?”
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MacDailyNews Take: New Macs will likely spur YOY revenue growth for Apple.
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Long overdue. The 27th can’t come soon enough.
I’m getting ready and I’m sure some of these new Macs will please many. I just don’t think this will be the pro Mac event some of us are looking for. Man I hope we don’t have to wait and drag this out until the next WWDC. Yikes!
Is it really that hard for them to design and build a new Pro MAC?
What, they are offended people expect them to design a box?!!
Heaven forbid! A BOX?!! Are you crazy? A box where the side drops down for easy access, allowing the user to add and subtract components as he or she desires? NONSENSE! That is madness. We have our standards, and those standards preclude us from designing anything where the user might modify what for us is a work of art!
Keep pushing this crazy BOX idea and you will suffer the consequences! “No soup for you!”
Hmm yeah I think this crazy upgradeable box idea (WHO would EVER want to do that??) was used, uh, er..umm.., in the 2012 Mac Pro I believe. Funny, it’s been sitting right there under their noses all along. We need something less Ive-y League as Captain Obvious might say.
Tim Cook has nothing but contempt for pro users. You can see that both in hardware AND software. Tim Cook sh!ts all over power users.
But he speaks well of you.
…Don’t believe words are enough, though… 😛
Actually, there’s no contempt. I don’t think he thinks about pro users at all.
Prepare to wait, or be sorely disappointed with regard to a new Mac Pro.
All these posts are assumptions. Apple has made no announcement as of yet.
The internet is dumb.
If it’s on the internet it must be true
This rumor from recode came Monday night and nothing else has changed since then. Now that that same rumor from the same source has been retold in 5 articles it’s fact.
I see /s
All I’ll say is they better be some serious hardware updates, not piddly little ones.
I agree! I will just go blow $5000 on a PC instead if Apple won’t give me the horsepower I need.
That’s just dumb. Besides, with IBM buying tons of new Macs, Apparently there’s a big market for them.
Build yourself a Hackintosh without any hacked drivers.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/
This is what I’m doing very shortly. I’m tired of waiting for Apple to give me a “headless” Mac that I can expand to my liking.
Yes, but you violate the user agreement, which is a legal agreement. If too many people do this, Apple will start shutting it down.
Tp punish Apple is to punish myself.
I did not wanted to go 100% PC so I split my budget and spent on a newer iMac and added a top graphic card to my PC. Of course I would preferred to spend all my money in just one Mac.