“Shipments of notebooks reached Apple’s expectations in January, and the MacBook maker plans to increase its orders for the first quarter of calendar 2011, providing further evidence that the company is largely unaffected by an Intel chipset design error, according to a new report,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“DigiTimes reported Wednesday that Apple’s notebook shipments are expected to ‘remain strong’ in the first quarter of 2011,” Oliver reports. “It noted that retail channel vendors indicated a widely publicized design flaw in the chipset accompanying Intel’s latest-generation Sandy Bridge processors ‘did not impact’ Apple, and the company is expected to increase orders.”
Oliver reports, “The Mac maker was reportedly aided by the fact that it is slower in upgrading its products to the latest platform. The report said that Apple is still using Intel’s Calpella chips for ‘most’ of its current models, allowing it to ‘completely’ avoid the impact.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
sometimes being a tortoise and not a hare is a good thing…
But using last year’s chips on your top of the line notebooks isn’t either.
lol. agreed. more carrots!