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Originally Posted by noah
You totally forgot a replacement for the 12" pbook. Your macbooks dont make a suiting replacement for a high speed pro laptop for around 1500.
Whats your prediction?
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Believe me, I didn't forget about it - the 12" Powerbook is one of my favorite Macs ever, even if it is the black sheep of the Powerbook family. I'm just not sure what the future holds for a small pro notebook. I don't think Apple will ignore one - that'd create a $1,000 gap in the MacBook line - but I'm not entirely sure we'll see one...it's possible Apple just drops the price of the MacBook Pro.
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Originally Posted by Reid
I'm not convinced that a MacBook mini would be the low end laptop. I think Apple would aim it at mobile executives seeking the ultimate ultra-portable, and price it accordingly. Think 1.8" hard drives, thinnest-ever enclosure, etc.
Most ultra-portables on the market today are NOT aimed at the bottom of the price bracket.
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Yes, but Apple has always done it differently. If the iBook grows in size when it becomes a MacBook (like it almost certainly will), I can see Apple making a small notebook (slightly smaller than the 12" Powerbook) to be positioned below it - as if the 14" iBook became the MacBook, and the 12" iBook became the "MacBook mini," both shrinking a bit in the process (the current designs are four years old, after all).
I think that, by fall, Apple could make a new MacBook mini a bit smaller than the 12" Powerbook, even at $799 (and without using 1.8" drives, to boot). While the 12" Powerbook is "tighter" than the iBook, it's still encumbered by the same four-year-old design - a MacBook mini could be thinner, if nothing else.