i doubt that apple will in the forseeable come out with a sub-notebook or a tablet for that matter.
Reason:
-no dvd drive means that it only caters to the business crowd, which apple has never done in the second coming of steve jobs. the most recent example of this would be the iphone. it would only be good product to a serviceable few and would quickly become a niche product with limited profit potential. an aluminum macbook w/ dvd would not only attract the business segment, but also college students and general use computer users who want something thin and light to carry around.
the biggest tip off to all of this was the ipod classic. as soon as they moved to aluminum and disregarded the white for silver told where apple was going in terms of the macbook. apple is clearly moving all of their main products to aluminum as evidenced by the greener apple statements by jobs. battery life can also still be improved with a move to the led screens which jobs had also talked about. there will be a move to a no optical drive to a mac some day, but flash drives are still too expensive and too many people are still dependent on CD/DVD to exchange information.
if you combine all of this and the fact that a new macbook is due at exactly the time that the holiday season starts, all of this is pointing to a new macbook.
it will not be a sub-notebook
i doubt that apple will in the forseeable come out with a sub-notebook or a tablet for that matter.
Reason:
-no dvd drive means that it only caters to the business crowd, which apple has never done in the second coming of steve jobs. the most recent example of this would be the iphone. it would only be good product to a serviceable few and would quickly become a niche product with limited profit potential. an aluminum macbook w/ dvd would not only attract the business segment, but also college students and general use computer users who want something thin and light to carry around.
the biggest tip off to all of this was the ipod classic. as soon as they moved to aluminum and disregarded the white for silver told where apple was going in terms of the macbook. apple is clearly moving all of their main products to aluminum as evidenced by the greener apple statements by jobs. battery life can also still be improved with a move to the led screens which jobs had also talked about. there will be a move to a no optical drive to a mac some day, but flash drives are still too expensive and too many people are still dependent on CD/DVD to exchange information.
if you combine all of this and the fact that a new macbook is due at exactly the time that the holiday season starts, all of this is pointing to a new macbook.