Apple’s updated MacBook Air line has quietly become a hit, with the company having shipped 1 million of the notebooks in the fourth quarter.
The figures come via Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who says recent checks in Asia imply that Apple shipped 1.1 million units for the three months ended December 31st, 2010.
If accurate, the numbers will indicate one of the strongest Mac launches in history.
Furthermore, Kuo says the Air are now selling at a 1:2 ratio to the MacBook Pro laptops, Apple’s best-selling.
Kuo says he expects Apple to “set a new Mac sales record during the [upcoming] quarter.”
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The latest rumor circulating this weekend is that the still unconfirmed 11.6-inch MacBook Air will be launched during Apple’s October 20 event.
Sources have leaked specs today, as well, saying most notably that the computer will use a new type of SSD for storage instead of the 1.8-inch enclosed drive used in current models.
The “SSD Card” will resemble a stick of RAM but will be almost impossible for users to replace. It will also take up much less space.
There are already a few notebooks, netbooks and embedded devices that use similar sticks, such as SanDisk’s pSSD but this should be the first move for the SSD into ultraportables.
Rumored processor is an Intel Core i5.
Aesthetically, the new model will resemble the current 13.3 inch model but be “more wedge-shaped” including sharper edges.
Most importantly, Apple will “almost certainly” drop the price “significantly” under the MacBook Air’s current $1500 price tag.
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In the latest (likely fake) leak of Apple Tablet pictures, TechCrunch has posted a couple of pictures showing the “iPad” next to a MacBook Pro.
The pics:
