MBP Santa Rosa Tuesday

The MacBook Pro may be updated a week in advance of the World Wide Developers Conference, according to multiple sources. An industry contact points to Apple having discontinued production of the current systems weeks ago, allowing its stores and its secondary retail channels to drain excess stock before new models are released. Regions that require custom keyboards and other language-specific changes have already been running low on systems, the claims said, and would only get replacements sometime in early June.

The claim is validated by that of a French reseller, which has said that it was able to place a new order for the notebooks. No specifications were listed in the order, however, and the unnamed firm said the shipment request was made "blind" with expectations only that the new systems might be available as early as Tuesday, June 5th.

Apple is widely believed to be working on a major upgrade to the 15- and 17-inch notebooks that will rely on multiple technical advancements, including Core 2 Duo processors based on the faster Intel Santa Rosa architecture at up to 2.4GHz, LED backlights for better color accuracy and power efficiency, as well as newly released mobile graphics chips from either AMD or NVIDIA.

By Electronista Staff