Apple typically keeps new releases always a secret, the more bubbles as the rumor mill. Sun Taiwanese Digitimes is now a major supplier who supplies Apple, have come to my attention that should be the beginning of 2011 four new MacBooks and a particularly favorable iMac released.
Digitimes writes in his report that the new MacBooks will have a slightly different design and with the new Mac OS X Lion equipped. If so, the Pro series is meant is, to date not known. Thus, the date is for the launch of the new notebooks one could be the release of the operating system, which is announced around for summer 2011. According to Digitimes, this information was not mentioned by name by and large component manufacturers. This could arise, however, now rumors are connected with that Intel announced new processors for the CES 2011 with Sandy Bridge architecture. Apple is rather rare a launch partner for Intel processors, but Intel has awarded contracts to comply with clear quite early with the number of units that directly will be quite high after the publication of new devices. Furthermore, the Digitimes writes that in the first Half of 2011 will come new iMac, which will have a smaller screen size and therefore cheaper than all his predecessors should be.
With the new devices Apple wants another source said that once again change the graphics card manufacturer. It is said, according to Cnet, that Apple will in the lower, mobile devices, no separate GPU chip block everything but wants to use the Sandy Bridge CPU integrated graphics chip. On the larger models will then be used AMD as a manufacturer in the future. Whether Apple will also use only AMD graphics chips is not fixed yet.
source:golem.de