When the 2010 MacBook Air was released, Apple said that it represented “the future of notebooks.” If a new rumor is true, the specific future they are talking about is coming in April. Mark Reschke from the Three Guys and a Podcast blog, who correctly predicted that Apple would unveil the new MacBook Air at September’s event is now saying that April will bring an “all-out redesign” of the high-end MacBook Pro as the “big brother of the MacBook Air,” incorporating a solid state drive and Light Peak connectors.

The MacBook Pro was last refreshed in April this year, when the addition of the Core i5 and i7 options came to the line. According to Reschke’s analysis, it would make sense for the new MacBook Pro to drop in April, a year after the previous model went on the market. Noting that the Final Cut Studio video-editing suite was last update in 2009 and Steve Jobs recently emailed  customer saying he should “stay tuned and buckle up” for a 64-bit version, Reschke says the upgrade should also be due in April.

The new model was said to have a 512 GB solid-state drive, no optical drive, and Light Peak high-speed optical connectors.  This goes well with the assessment predicted – this month that new Macs would get Light Peak next year, and “earlier in the year than later.” That was said by Jobs after him saying he didn’t see “USB 3 taking off at this time.” The emerging Light Peak standard promises a data transfer rate of 10 Gbps – twice that of USB 3 to start, and up to 100 GBps by the end of the decade. The new model Reschke claims will be positioned at the upper end of the MacBook Pro line, with the traditional 15” Pro remaining at $1,799 starting price. The new MacBook Pro he says will probably start at $1,999 and increase from there depending on additional options.

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Authors: TechHead

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