“Worldwide computer shipment growth for 2011 ended on a slightly positive note, growing to 1.8% on the year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) research group,” Dennis Sellers reports for MacNews. “This year is expected to see only modest growth, though I suspect the Mac will continue to see higher-than-average sales.”
“After all, as CEO Tim Cook has pointed out, the company’s global share of the personal computer market is in the single digits. That offers room for a LOT of growth,” Sellers reports. “On Monday during a press conference, Cook said that Apple’s pipeline is “full of stuff” and that customers will be “incredibly pleased” with what they see coming out.”
Sellers writes, “Maybe that’s the MacBook Pro Air. Maybe it’s an iMac with television features that hint at the rumored ‘iTV.’ Maybe it’s a hybrid iPad and MacBook Air. Maybe it’s Macs with retina displays. The personal computer may be a ‘mature market,’ but it’s by no means a saturated market, especially in Apple’s case. Now Cook and Company need to bring out Macs that make our jaws drop in ways that the iPad and iPhone have of late.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Sarah” for the heads up.]
I have an Early 2009 Quad Core Mac Pro that would be nice to upgrade- and no an iMac is not an upgrade nor is a laptop.
I have a 27″ Core i7 iMac (October 2009) that still has a long ways to go before I need to upgrade it. I usually upgrade every 4 years, but I have a feeling I will be happy with this system for a while yet. Although, I am considering bumping the memory up to 16GB as I’m starting to hit the ceiling with the 8GB that’s in it – memory is so damn cheap right now; 16GB for $130 – why not upgrade!?
I have been using the big boy mac pro for years in an in-house agency setting and always insisted on the latest, fattest, most cored Mac Pro.
Those days are over! I have gone freelance and decided on a late 2011 27″ and it is insanely, neck-snappipngly fast! I loaded it with 12GB of ram and I am waiting for a decently priced Thunderbolt SSD – then look the F out!
Indeed, new Mac Pro’s are kinda WAY overdue. I have an original Mac Pro that’s getting a bit long in the tooth.
Seems kind of crazy they are still charging the same price for 18 month-old computers.
New iPad buyers become Halo Effect new Mac buyers and the Apple juggernaut continues to amaze (but not necessarily surprise).
Same with the Mac. My uncle bought a Mac mini 6 months ago and now he has an ipad, iPhone and MacBook pro.
Apple products are gateway drugs to going all apple it seems.
iMacs haven’t been updated in some 3 or 4 years. Whats up with that?
You are talking about the design, correct?
Where would you take it?
My impression is that about all one could change is make it thinner or have a redesigned base.
Did it had to?
MacBook Pro designs basically did not change from the times of PowerBook Titanium, 2001 — and it is perfectly fine. Newer models will come with thinner base (thanks to do DVD drive), but that is what will be done — because design is classic.
Of course they have, just like the iPad and iPhone. You’re falling into the same trap as a lot of tech commentators and other dim-witted bloggers, and only looking at the external design, which is perfectly fine. It’s what’s under the hood that counts.
Of course, if all you care about is being able to show off yet another flashy design to your impressionable mates, then you’re obviously going to be unimpressed by the lack of change to the exterior.
Does the phrase, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ ring any bells with you, squiggles?
“Now Cook and Company need to bring out Macs that make our jaws drop in ways that the iPad and iPhone have of late.”
They get my vote! 🙂
When are the new iMacs coming out!? I have a tax refund just waiting to be spent on a new iMac!
“Maybe it’s an iMac with television features that hint at the rumored ‘iTV”
Ummmm….no. Apple is not Micro$loth.
Who says a MacBook Pro should have only 1 screen?
Doesn’t take much to make the trackpad a hi-res iPhone like screen to handle small items you want to keep off the main screen.
I’mmmmmmmm waiting!!!
Seriously, I’m waiting… Need to replace my old iMac and looking forward to see if the new ones have some redesign to them, as well as incorporate all the latest technology goodness and the new Mountain Lion, of course!
MacPad!! – 17″ screen you can hold in your lap.
One third the depth of an iMac
Mixes an iPad and a Mac. Docks with keybaord, etc.
Has SSD up to 250GB
Starting at $899 for wifi only, w 80GB SSD 16GB RAM
top of the line: 1499 for wifi,4G, 16 GB RAM, 250GB SSD
Dual quad core A6
Take another hit. 😛
Where can the Mac go? Faster CPUs? Higher resolutions? More RAM? Larger SSDs? Maybe add lame social networking functions to 10.7 and call it 10.8 … wait, they already did that.
Blah – blah – blah. Unless they put out a serious evolutionary change, they will plateau into a Microsoft-like indefinite mediocrity, as will their stock (is that why they gave the stock holders something to smile about in case it levels off?)
All I can see on their horizon is a Star Trek type Siri v2.0 incorporated into all of their devices, so you can do anything from anywhere based on spoken words, thus giving your iPhone all of the power and storage of your iMac. For example: speaking into the iPhone…
“When the Isotope 3D Model is finished rendering, convert it to H.264 and email it to Dr. Myers at MIT. Notify Billy he may socialize after his homework and quiz, but no later than 10pm. End message. Text me his quiz results when he is finished, then perform a lockout and shut down on Billy’s iMac at 10pm. At the end of the week, transfer $20 from my checking account into Billy’s debt card with an allowance memo.”
THAT would be an evolutionary OS.
The computers will vanish into the woodwork…
“according to Bob O’Donnell, vice president of Clients and Displays at IDC. “However, end user surveys tell us that few people consider media tablets as replacements for their computers, so later this year when there is a new Microsoft operating system, available in sleek new PC form factors, we believe consumer interest in PCs will begin to rebound.””
Sounds like the survey was limited to IT people, not everyday consumers. I believe that the Majority of regular, non IT, folks consider the iPad a replacement for a desktop computer.
But wait, look what they said, “media tablets”! Very Sneaky. NOT iPads!
I would not consider a “media tablet” as a computer replacement. The iPad is not some crappy media tablet. It is a computer replacement.
And the “available in sleek new PC form factors”? Do they mean “form factors” that look a lot like Apple devices?
Microsoft is fragmenting their own market. It’s all Windows 8, but the same program will not run on a Windows 8 desktop version AND on the Windows 8 tablet version.
If the mid 2012 Apple releases don’t include a totally new Mac Pro, it will be a knife to the backs of those of us who have really supported Apple during good times and bad.
Even though it would cause some software development chaos over the short term, Apple needs to transition over to building their own microprocessors for Macs, too. That would release Apple from Intel’s unpredictable release schedules for new products, along with all of Intel’s backward, Wintel-focused thinking.
The best thing that Apple could spend their profits on, right now, is to develop and deploy a new, beyond the state-of-the-art system of communication satellites that would would destroy most of the media distribution buffoons like Dish, Direct TV, etc. Apple could really show these crooks and their ilk how it really should be done!
I think the way to go is to incorporate all those lovely sensors from the iOS devices into the Mac. Chief among them should be a multitouch interaction surface that lets the user use all ten fingers.