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Wednesday September 16, 2009
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Is Apple on the defensive with the impending release of Windows 7? Research firm Wedge Partners claims that the company is getting ready to release new iMac and Macbook models in "the next several weeks."
There doesn't appear to be a ton of information to back up such claims. The firm asserts that the Macbook redesign "is likely to be limited" and the new iMac will feature a "thinner, organic design, likely with smoothed or rounded edges," according to Barrons.
In all, Apple seems unlikely to hold another huge event this close to the recent iPod announcement.
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September 16, 2009 2:41 PM
That's...unfortunate. Not that Apple may be planning new models, but that it appears that some analyst somewhere essentially has the job of reviewing the Macrumors Buying Guide and making loose, vague predictions based on that:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
Or maybe I'm not giving them enough credit and they're keeping track of Apple's average refresh cycles for the Mac Pro and iMac on their own and making predictions that way.
In any event, Apple's at the end of a hardware cycle for a number of its products, including its displays, the iMac, and the Mac Pro, and while they're likely not to have another major event, they almost always give those models a speed or feature bump around this time of year. I doubt it has anything to do with Windows 7...although it runs beautifully on my Macbook Pro, I can vouch for that. :D