Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
AppleInsider probably helped fuel the fire by stating
that those aforementioned people in the know have suggested that "the
chipset employed by the new wave of Macs may have little or nothing to
do with Intel at all." The fact that they clarified the CPU choice
immediately afterwards appears to have gone unnoticed by some.
Will Apple go back to the days of the
PowerPC-based Macs with proprietary Apple chipsets playing that vital
support role? Quite possibly, although it is perhaps more likely that
it will cherry-pick the best from players such as AMD or NVidia perhaps.
One thing does seem certain, and that is Apple will be looking to
reduce the footprint of the Macbook both in terms of weight and power
consumption. Moving away from Intel chipsets might have something to do
with the latter.
Using a one-piece aluminium body has everything to do with the former.
Lightweight, environmentally friendly and solid. Plus, being Apple, you
know it is going to look good.
Seth Weintraub
has been hearing interesting things about the Macbooks, specifically
very interesting things about the trackpad. According to his Apple
rumours blog posting this will be made of glass.
Yes, trust Apple to go with something as radical as a glass trackpad.
But that's not all, according to Weintraub the smooth surface will be
'multi-touch' and support user gestures.
The only other rumour left to report on is availability, and that is looking like being the end of September.
So there you have it, an aluminium and glass Macbook partly powered by Intel appears to be the order of the day and you won't have to wait too long to get hold of one. Probably...
David Bass
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