Plastic MacBook disappear from the market in anticipation of release of Mac OS X Lion

In the retail point of sale supplies white MacBook rapidly coming to an end. Such distributors like Amazon, MacConnection, On Sale and J & R reported no MacBook their warehouses. The dealer DataVision has only a small amount of this product. The same applies to the European representatives of Apple: and they do not have in stock the white MacBook.

This order of things may indicate either that the white MacBook and completely phased out, or that they will upgrade the hardware after the release of Mac OS X Lion. In the first case, the base model of Apple's laptops will be ultra-thin MacBook Air (The price of the most simple 11.6-inch Air just meets the ideology of "the Apple cheap laptop"). On the other hand, to update plastic MacBook time has come, because last update this notebook had a year ago.

There is another possible reason for the fact that the plastic MacBook began to disappear from the shelves. This reduction in the price of a laptop from $ 949 to $ 899 (the price is relevant for the US) in order to attract students as members of the target audience, and as a consequence, high demand for it.

Do not forget about the main competitor MacBook base model - the "air" 11.6-inch MacBook Air. Now the latter threatens to take the place of a plastic model and also almost equal to it in price ($ 999). On the other hand, Apple may also reduce the price of the MacBook. This is a popular policy for those times when you just need to sell older models of products.

In short, the future fate of the white plastic MacBook is still unknown, and we are only guessing. On the other hand, virtually no doubt that after the release of the new version of Mac OS X will be updated MacBook Air. It is expected that he will be supported by a high-speed interface Thunderbolt data transfer, as the MacBook Pro and iMac current release. In addition, the appropriate accessory for the transmission of information from one device to another, Apple Thunderbolt cable, already available for sale. As a hardware platform in the MacBook Air, is likely to be used by the latest Intel development, supplemented by new low-voltage processors based on the architecture Sandy Bridge, Core i5 or Core i7, c frequency from 1.7 GHz. [via Apple Insider]