“Speculation has been running rampant in recent days over a ’12-inch MacBook Pro’….very much similar to the ‘MacBook Thin’ that we have been talking about here on Rumors since before the first Intel-based Apple laptops shipped,” Mac OS Rumors reports.
MOSR reports on rumored specs that include, “12-inch widescreen display, 1280×800 resolution, 2.16 or 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of DDR2-667 memory standard. Max. capacity 3GB, standard “Pro” ports: USB2, Firewire 400 & 800, gigabit ethernet, digital/analog audio minijack I/O ports, ExpressCard/34, 2.5in SATA HDDs at 120GB & up, ‘Combo’ or ‘Super’ optical drive.”
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Yoris” and “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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RUMOR: Apple plans lightweight, ultra-thin MacBook Pro with 12-inch widescreen – December 04, 2006
I was thinking about the 15″, but in light of this news I’m holding out for the 12!
Backlit keyboard?
For all of the rumored products to be true, the keynote would have to be 4 hours long. It seems the rumor sites get people’s hopes up so they feel let down when ‘only’ 2 or 3 revolutionary products are announced.
I suppose if you report every possible thing they could ever do as being a rumour then you have to be right about something.
a question for the savvy: is Apple’s separation of its “Pro” line from its consumer line consistent with other computer makers?
It is not clear to me what makes the above rumoured product a “pro” laptop. Is it really just having FW800?
No mention of HD spec…flash based, hence the long battery life, use your 80GB iPod for permanent storage. Love it.
An anorexia laptop? LOL
I think that my MacBook Pro 17″ is thin enough. It could be thicker for bigger battery.
Apple should focus for is the mePhone.
The Ultra-Thin Mac Book Pro would not be that ground breaking to require a “Special Event” release. It would be just like the Core 2 Duo release.
The “iPhone” would require a special event release. I don’t believe it would be MacWorld. It would be in Feb like the Mac Mini and HiFi.
My thougts on upcoming release schedule:
Ultra-Thin (released before MacWorld)
MacWorld:
iLife ’07 (released)
iWork ’07 (released)
.mac ’07 (released)
Leopard (75% chance preview, 25% chance release)
iTV (released)
True Video iPod (released)
Feb.:
Leopard (75% chance release)
iPhone (released)
Actually, if Leopard is released at MacWorld, then the True Video iPod will be released in Feb.
I want a 15″ MacBook (not Pro)…
I currently have a 15″ Titanium PowerBook, and the 13″ MacBook screen seems too small!
MOSR have been sounding off about the MacBook Thin for years. What’s their track record like in other areas? Didn’t the MacBook replace both the iBook and the PB12?
1280×800 would be too damn tiny for a 12″ screen. Otherwise this notebook would be a highly needed addition to Apple’s selection of portables.
MOSR? C’mon! Can we be realistic? You can’t get the features of the 15″ MBP in a 12″ form. The expresscard slot is out, certainly. The rest I could imagine, but it’s not going to be as thin as the 15″.
Get rid of the optical drive and there is lots of room. Apple wouldn’t do that though.
With integrated graphics?
NO THANKS!
Now, on the other hand, with dedicated graphics, this would be mighty appealing.
This must be the Sony Vaio killer…
MOSR?
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Yeah, um, this is MOSR. Even with all of their rampant speculation, they’ve never been on target. Not believing it (though a MBP 12″ with a dedicated graphics card would be sweet). If true, I would hardly expect the backlit keyboard (think PB 12″).
In the book of Apple 3:07, the prophet MDN said ” And look! out of the clouds of Cupertino I saw a bright light and coming down with wings was a 12 inch ultra macbook pro! The angels and the people below rejoiced with great happyness and sang praises to the Almighty Steve Job wearing a black turtleneck and black jeans with an iPod Shuffle in his pocket”…… :p
Besides the FW800, the “Pro” also has the ExpressCard slot, backlit keyboard, 3GB max RAM.
All but the backlit keyboard is mentioned above in the rumor.
I have a 12″ ThinkPad X60 (but not widescreen) and it doesn’t have an optical drive inside and it’s no thinner than a 15″ MBP. Could Apple engineering and the widescreen make enough extra space to make it fit? It would be remarkable if they did it.
1280 x 800 on a 12″ screen would be about 128 pixels per inch, which would make the text on this page ( and in the interface) unreadable. This resolution is only possible with a scalable interface – which may or may not be part of Leopard – and if you have to scale the interface to read stuff then the 12″ screen is going to feel pretty small again even with it’s extra pixels.
This is a crock.
mark, perhaps the mini CDs will make a comeback
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Like I constantly tell my girlfriend-
Bigger is not always better…
(except for maybe knockers)
And they forgot to mention that it weighs only 9 ounces and the battery life is so long because it is powered by dilithium crystals.