Apple could introduce 'absolutely different' Mac by end of 2011

By on Aug 22, 2011 at 9:50 PM
Computers August 22, 2011

Apple may be working on an entirely new Mac product, according to macotakara.jp. The website cites an “anonymous Apple supplier” who says that Apple is working on a new Mac family that will be “absolutely different” from what the Cupertino-based company currently offers. It is unclear what “absolutely different” parts the computers will have, but we suspect it could involve an entirely revamped industrial design and upgraded internal hardware. Apple most recently updated its MacBook Air and Mac mini lines and also introduced a sub-$1,000 iMac for education. However, we have yet to see an updated Mac Pro, which was originally rumored to launch in August with Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors. Apple typically doesn’t announce new Macs during its iPhone or iPod events, so we’re not sure we’ll hear about this in September either. It remains purely a rumor… for now.

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  • http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/ BoyRetardedReport

    Hopefully we see a touch screen device…

    LET THE APPLE HATING BEGIN (1st comment)

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      In the end it doesn’t matter because DROID still has the largest market share

      • Anonymous

        Plus a basic Android device is 10-20 times more powerful than the most loaded Mac…

      • http://bra.ms Will Bramlett

        I don’t think DROID has a larger market share, maybe Android does but not the Droid.

  • http://twitter.com/cheese cheese

    new Macbook/Mac Air lineup ? or their Desktop offerings? 

    if its an entirely new Macbook/Mac Air lineup I can totally see them going ARM. 

    • Anonymous

      Nope.

      Apple just invented something now known as Blu-Ray. The inclusion of Blu-Ray drives will make the Mac “absolutely different” from everything else out there. I can’t wait.

  • Macs rock :)

    i love macs their awesome

    • Michael Scrip

      Their what?

    • numetheus

      Ummmm did you know that ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ are two COMPLETELY different words? You completely used the wrong word. Learn English maybe?

  • Anonymous

    “PC clones to follow a year later (see: Macbook Air ripoffs AKA Ultrabooks)”

  • serpentor

    Did Jon Ives leave Apple like he was rumored to do?

    They need new blood. shits getting old.

  • sirpaul

    Magical…now “absolutely different”?

    • Anonymous

      Descriptive terms, how do they work?

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        it is a word or group of words to describe something.
        Man you’re dumb!

      • Anonymous

        Oh, Walter. Only you.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        Are you a reg?
        New handle?

  • http://bra.ms Will Bramlett

    I think Apple had a Mac event last October.. I think they will again this year but it’d be for little things at first (new Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad & Wireless Keyboard with BT 4.0) and then a preview of the next generation of Mac OS. Not a new computer or OS. If it was something brand new, why would they release it right after Lion. They’d likely need a new OS too. If we find anything, it’ll just be the preview of what is to come.

  • Anonymous

    How about a sub $700 mac

    • Anonymous

      Mac Mini?

  • Anonymous

    Maybe it will be the mythical mini-tower.

    • Anonymous

      I’d love to see a MacPro-like config at a price I can handle.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

    A desktop that runs IOS!
    No access to the file system, no downloads from the internet, only iTunes. Moreover, files and media can only go on but not off the device. It will have one proprietary port with dongles for sale at $40 a piece to hook up USB, HDMI, and SD cards.
    It will be praised for its beauty and simplicity. Lines will be across the state.

    • Anonymous

      So, an iPad.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        No!
        Would you call an ipad an iPhone because it has the same beauty and simplicity?

    • Anonymous

      No! No! No! You can’t have all those features built in all at once. What would Apple have to feature in the next revision of that product?

    • Anonymous

      I’m not allowed, as a member of the Goofans (aka Apple Haters) Board, to even look at an Apple product, what Walt describes here is already a Mac. Right? They can’t do crap…

  • Anonymous

    Mac pro mini

    • Anonymous

      Mac Mini Pro Nano 4GS

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B4OGBROXQZNX5C4XDTX6ICYMXQ Gilda Cameron

    I just paíd $22.85 for an íPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her her Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.78 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $625 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHûb.côm

  • Anonymous

    so what?  it’ll still cost a bazillion dollars lol

    • Anonymous

      You sound poor.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        You sound stoopid!

  • Kuigfrr

    probably like a touch screen intuitive mac desktop with brand new controls and to counterpart with os 10.8

    • http://SmokieBrooks.com Levi Brooks

      Isn’t that why they build the Magic Pad and build gestures into Lion?  So they could provide the experience of touch, without having figures in the way.  An internet based device w/ minimal storage would be novel, but that would require an adjusted OS.  So don’t see that either.

  • http://profiles.google.com/jshurak Jeff Shurak

    Its going to be a bigger ipad, which is a bigger ipod touch. So a really really big iPod touch. 

  • KCRic

    TOTALLY DIFFERENT!! REVOLUTIONARY!! GAME CHANGER!! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING… AGAIN!!!

    Changelog:
     *Changed bezel color from white to black
     

  • Alvin A. Smith

    As one or more commenters already stated, I think this is going to be the touchscreen iMac.  Quite possibly one that tilts.  It may also include an ARM-based processor, as many rumors have indicated that Apple is experimenting.  Additionally, I think it’s also possible it will be sub $1000 and could double as the TV people have been talking about.

    OK, I think maybe I crammed too many rumors into one suggestion about what this could be.  May as well throw one more in there:  It is the real reason Apple bought Siri and will include advanced voice recognition in the living room a la Microsoft’s Kinect, but more Apple-like in its foolproof-ness.

  • Steve Lee

    And next year and next year and next year.
    BGR: Apple with come out with New OS and New Devices and this is from very solid source… wait no its from one of our many unnamed analist.

  • Anonymous

    How about an iOS server that stores and serves media to appleTvs, like the Kaleidescape?  You buy movies and music, all of it shows up there and you get the appleTv streaming without having to have your computer on- like a low power dedicated media server.

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