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Слуховете за предстоящ анонс на нова серия MacBook Touch, a.k.a Newton 2.0 не са от вчера.

След бумът на спекулации преди MacWorld 2008 темата утихна. До вчера, когато по повод последните тримесечните резултати Steve Jobs и Peter Oppenheimer направиха интересни изявления.

Jobs в прес съобщението:

… we’re busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months

Oppenheimer в конферентен разговор с анализатори:

We are working to develop new products that contains technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline.

Малко по-късно, като оправдание на планирания спад в gross margin:

… we’ve got a future product transition that I can’t discuss with you today…

Тези изказвания дадоха нов тласък на слуховете за предстоящо представяне на MacBook Touch.

Надежден източник на MacDailyNews шушне:

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech (б.р. хм, не бил за iPhone). Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.

Gizmodo, пак по тази тема споделя:

… we’ve heard vague reports from reliable sources that Quanta is busy building a touch product for Apple

Дали пък този път слуховете няма да се окажат верни?