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MacBook Air: $3 Billion Dollar Oppurtunity to Apple

J.P. Morgan hardware analyst Mark Moskowitz has increased his assessment of the MacBook Air’s revenue opportunity from $2.2 billion to $3 billion-plus and Apple is expected to release a Sandy Bridge MacBook Air within the next month or so and also would wait until Mac OS X Lion dropped before releasing any new hardware. Other vendors will chase the size and weight and functionality of the Air, because that class of laptop offers many of the benefits of tablet computing, such as being lighter, thinner, having quick boot times and Apple’s iCloud offering could help turn Apple‘s ultra-thin MacBook Air into a $3 billion-a-year business, even as sales of fatter notebooks and desktop computers stagnate………..

Apple To Bring New MacBook Air

Apple might release a next-gen MacBook air soon and the company is now producing their new netbook, based on the note posted by Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The Cupertino-based company recently placed an order with its Asian partner manufacturers for at least 380,000 new gen MacBook Airs and are equipped with Intel’s newest Sandy Bridge processors that the current-gen iMacs are using. Kuo also added that the upcoming MacBook Air model will feature the Thunderbolt transfer technology, the same new technology used by the latest model of MacBook Pro and the 2011 iMac generation and Apple is reportedly producing 55% of the 11.6 inch MacBook Air……….

Advanced Micro Devices has shipped 5 million power-efficient Fusion processors

AMD ships five million Fusion chips, says it’s sold out. AMD said this week that it has shipped about 5 million of its power-efficient Fusion processors to date, as it makes inroads thanks to Intel’s fading Netbook franchise.

Apple Testing A5-Powered MacBook Air

Apple’s custom-built A5 chip currently powers iPad 2 and is expected to make its way into next-gen iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV and now A5 chip is coming to MacBook Air with Thunderbolt I/O is being tested in Apple’s labs. Apple working hard to converge the best bits of both into the forthcoming OS X Lion upgrade and may be eying ARM as a possible replacement for Intel-manufacturered x86-architecture chips in its laptop computers, but complications with running legacy applications could mean the move is several years away………

G-Form Extreme Sleeve For Macbook Air

G-Form Extreme Sleeve gives new reasons to throw a MacBook out a window and world-renowned athletic gear company known for extreme demonstrations of its Extreme Sleeve for iPad.These heavy-duty cases are made up of PORON XRD, a flexible material that absorbs 90 percent of impact energy and the laptop case starts shipping on May 31st for $69.95………..

Apple Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Products

According to Wall Street Journal Apple has sued Samsung Electronics for copying “the look and feel” of its iPad tablet and iPhone smartphones. The lawsuit claims several of Samsung’s smartphones and tablet — the Galaxy S 4G, Epic 4G, Nexus S and the Galaxy Tab — copy Apple’s intellectual property.

Apple Switches From Toshiba To Samsung SSDs in MacBook Air

Apple has been using Toshiba’s SSDs for MacBook Air. However, the latest update is Apple has switched to a more powerful SSD now; which is from Samsung! According to AnandTech report Apple may have started using faster Samsung SSDs in its new MacBook Airs.

Rumor: MacBook Air 2011 Coming This Summer

Apple is set to update its MacBook Air series in the next few months. Rumors suggesting that the MacBook Air 2011 model will pack specs to match that of the current MacBook Pro. With an upgrade to Sandy Bridge, benchmarks suggest that performance will be close to that of the MacBook Pro.