“Online services such as Apple’s iCloud offering could help turn Apple‘s ultra-thin MacBook Air into a $3 billion-a-year business, even as sales of fatter notebooks and desktop computers stagnate, J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz wrote in a note to investors Thursday,” Brian Caulfield reports for Forbes.
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“First quarter unit sales were five times those of the year-ago period, thanks to the introduction of new MacBook Air models in October — with Moscowitz arguing the new MacBooks represent a “breakout” product for Apple,” Caulfield reports. “Over the next 12 to 18 months, Moskowitz estimates Apple will sell roughly 700,000 of the notebooks each quarter — up from just 432,000 units in the first quarter of 2011.”
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It’s good to be the King!
Love my Air …..
The MB Air seems poised to be THE computer to own regardless of classification. I think at some point the Pro and Air are going to have to merge.
I have a feeling the next version of MacBook Pro will not have a built-in optical drive. And the 13-inch MacBook Pro will be cancelled. And the “white” MacBook will also be canceled.
So Apple’s portable Mac lineup will be:
11-inch MacBook Air
13-inch MacBook Air
15-inch MacBook Pro
17-inch MacBook Pro
(and maybe “MacBook Air” will just be called “MacBook.”)
No, I think there will be 2 types of MBAir, one as is now and a new one is white MBAir.
That “white” MacBook should be called MacBook Cloud. 🙂
McCloud !
I like it, I like it a lot …..
oooh, me too! …or: MacCloud…starring Dennis Weaver.
… Which reminds me of the Rolling Stones song where the Irishman shouts to his neighbor: “Hey McCloud, get off of my Ewe!”
I would buy a 17in Pro-Air in a heartbeat as long as Apple didn’t get stingy with the RAM or Processor.
Thiner lighter, replace the optical drive with more battery OR a mech HD/SSD hybrid. Drool…..
I would buy a USB/Thunderbolt optical drive for the rare times I need one.
Dude that would be gnarly. I had a 17 inch g4 PB a while back. THe screen was cool but it was a beast to carry around. Can you imagine a MBA with a 17 inch screen? – light but large. Would cost a bundle though. $3k with SSD.
Dudes, I still have a unibody macbook, 4 GB RAM. running very nicely. I wonder what should I do with it? will replace the HD with SSD with help it catch up?
Just keep using it (as is). There’s no need for it to “catch up” if it’s already “running very nicely.”
Besides, the MacBook Air is not meant to be a performance machine. It’s standard RAM is currently only 2GB (not upgradable unless you order it with 4GB), and its processing is designed to be power efficient, not ultra fast.
His question was more along the lines of whether if he upgraded his MacBook by installing an SSD drive would that give him a performance boost such that it will enable him to catch up to the performance of the latest edition of the Air.
My answer would be that yes, definitely installing an SSD drive would give your MacBook a boost performance wise but it depends on what apps you’re running on the machine. If you’re doing normal stuff like email, listening to music on iTunes, writing documents on Pages, the SSD will not give you a noticeable boost in performance except in boot up time.
The downside of an SSD is the limited capacity and expense. If you can live with that constraint, fine. If you would rather have a bigger drive to store all your apps and files then getting a large capacity faster spinning HDD (7200 RPM) might be a better approach.
It all depends on what you expect out of your system.
I love my iPad. I love my 11″ macBook Air, But what I would love is a hybrid of the two.
Stay tuned. It will happen a lot sooner than most people think it will.
Yep windows 8 is coming (kidding) 😉
Windows 8 is going to turn a lot of the techie XP guys off …. More sales for Mac …..
Lion and the Cloud will be a killer system …. Along with my 11″ Air and iPad – I’m set …..
Of course have a 24″ 2008 iMac at work and it is for work ….
This will no longer be true soon!
You all sound like a bunch of wanna-be fan bois.
That said… I tried a MB air the other day at the Apple Store, an was really impressed with the speed. It opened Pages pretty much instantly. Safari… Instantly.
I really want one. (hint hint… Fathers day!!!!)
I’ll want a MBAir when they put the damn back-light keyboard back in. That was a show-stopper for me upgrading my current MBAir.
Or you could get a clip on light to put above the screen like those windows notebooks. Very sexy
If i buy an air, it had better have a damn backlit keyboard.
Love it on my MBP.
and don’t dare grab one of those usb lights…
Actually, MBA business is already $3 billion one for Apple. Not need for the future tense.
MacBook Air! iCloud! Get it? The hint was there all along!
Yea, you are right, if ya think about it …. Love my Air …. Best laptop ever had …. EVER
Why doesn’t Apple create a “PARALLEL” App so you could run iOs and Lion on any Mac.
that was one of the rumors with Lion, being able to run iPad apps on the Mac.
i’d love to see it also.
without a doubt, sexiest computer they’ve made to date. They floor you when you see and hold one.
I love my 11 inch MBA way too much!:-)
If they discontinue unibody, they better drop the line into the price point. Starting at $999, that is.
iCloud Air = Rain. Make it rain! Lol
Apple should really consider using AMD new fusion chips, it can play the latest 3D games without a discrete graphics and still be running cool!!