Best Buy, Amazon.com see MacBook Air stockouts ahead of imminent refresh

By on Jun 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM
Computers June 27, 2011

It looks like we may finally see Apple unveil its mid-2011 MacBook Air models some time this week. Best Buy has stopped shipping all MacBook Air notebooks as of this past weekend. The online retailer is still taking orders, however, which indicates that Apple will likely not adjust pricing when it issues its refreshed models. Of note, unless Apple introduced an entirely new model at a much lower price point, this puts earlier rumored sales targets of 8 million units well out of reach. Several sellers on the Amazon.com website are showing low inventory or stockouts as well, further supporting the notion that Apple has stopped refreshing distributor inventory as it prepares to begin shipping updated MacBook Air models. Apple’s mid-2011 MacBook Airs are expected to feature Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt I/O ports, among other changes.

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  • Anonymous

    Question is whether this is demand (given all the predictions that MBA is selling like hotcakes), or a refresh.

    Either way, it’s a data point that consumers are looking for a different type of portable.

    Daring Fireball unearthed the ‘return’ WWDC post note (conference Q&A) of Steve Jobs yesterday… How Steve described his work life (mainly email, effectively diskless computers at 4 work locations), made me feel how he sees the classic ‘work/life’ world:  a phone (iPhone), a work computer (MBA), and a personal device (iPad), all tied together by the internet.     He said that there is no need to build storage in locally… the network is faster, no moving parts and ubiquitous.  All the more so with 3G and upcoming LTE.   Spinning Disk is a liability, not only for power, but for failures, and therefore backups (management). 

    So the question is… will the MBA refresh have LTE built in?

    • Anonymous

      I love Apple, but at Apple’s rate of adoption, I’d say 3G.

      Although I would think the Air would be capable of 4G without loss of battery life, as opposed to the iPhone, which would be sucked dry.

  • Cornbread

    Anything about the storage?  Even with cloud stuff, 64g is measly, no?

    • Emperor_was_a_jerk

      I totally agree. The paltry 64GB storage is what has prevented me from purchasing a MBA. The upgraded storage options are just too expensive so I am hoping the new entry level Air has at least 128GB. The while iCloud thing does nothing to help with storage. It should really be called “iCloud Sync”. If I have 100GBs of music, movies and photos in my iCloud storage, I still need 100GBs of local disk storage.

  • Steel

    But will it run Win7 natively?

  • http://www.twitter.com/dannydefinit DannyDefinit

    Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt are nice and all, but if the new refresh has a backlit keyboard, that’ll leave me bitter about getting my 2010 13″ MBA. Petty, I know.

  • Cornbread

    It makes no sense to have a laptop with 64g, although my MB is 80 and has run like crap almost since day 1, with added RAM.  I like the SSD idea but it seems there are too few suppliers and it is pricey

    • Anonymous

      Why? It’s an ultralight mobile device, and has a Thunderbolt port for super-speedy data transfers to an external Thunderbolt-equipped HDD at your home workstation. 

      In the days of the cloud, you really don’t need to have everything with you at all times.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S57ZFG3CPV3UII2Z4INWAHWRMM Cecil Aguilar

    This sites was just good for sometime. I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent. com

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