RUMOR: Quanta lands orders for 11.6-inch Apple MacBook Air units

14 years ago

According to a brief report from DigiTimes’ Yen-Shyang Hwang and Steve Shen this morning, “Quanta has reportedly landed orders for 11.6-inch MacBooks from Apple. Shipments of 11.6-inch MacBooks are expected to top 400,000-500,000 units in 2010.”

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AppleInsider reports, “Apple is destined to revamp its super-slim, but soft-selling MacBook Air as early as this fall, wrapping the new model around an LED-backlit display that’s nearly two inches smaller than the model available today… The first evidence to this end arrived earlier this year when an analyst citing sources in Apple’s Taiwanese component supply chain revealed that the company was placing orders for parts to fit a slimmer and lighter MacBook Air based around an 11.6-inch LED-lit display and Intel Core i-series ultra-low voltage processor.”

“Apple last updated the 13.3-inch MacBook Air back in June of 2009 when it dropped the entry-level price to US$1,499 from $1,799 for a model with a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo,” AppleInsider reports. “A $1,799 offering based around a 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 128GB solid state drive was also introduced.”