New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air & MacBook Coming Out in April

Just earlier today we were toying with the idea of a MacBook Pro capable to double as a pico projector and now we find out that Apple might be finally launching the new MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and MacBook models in April.


The news comes all the way from Taiwan, where a local newspaper spilled the beans on Apple’s intentions. Of course, if all this proves to be right, Apple could always get mad and postpone the launch just a few more weeks. After all it’s not like they’re losing money, is it? If that was the matter maybe the company would have announced the Intel Core i5/i7 refresh a few months ago when the competition was also changing processors.
On the other hand the Taiwanese report clearly points out that Apple wanted to release those new MacBook lines in March but the company wasn’t able to do it due to Intel chips shortages.
Furthermore, besides the obvious processor upgrade, the new Macs will apparently offer new hard drives that will go all the way up to 640GB and new 8-hour batteries for all future MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and MacBook models. There are no pricing details at this point but the article is not officially coming from Apple either.
The paper did also mention the companies that are going to supply and assemble the next-gen laptops. It looks like Quanta and Hon Hai will assembly the devices while Innolux and AU Optronics will deal with the LCDs.
It definitely looks like Apple has a very busy month ahead: iPhone OS 4.0 is coming out on April 8, the international Wi-Fi iPad release is rumored for April 24 while the 3G iPad is also scheduled to hit U.S. Apple stores by the end of the month. With all these in mind we can’t but ask ourselves if Apple is really launching the new MacBook Pro MacBook Air and MacBook notebooks in April or will we have to wait until May to get them?

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