Apple is preparing ultra-thin 15-inch MacBook Pro

Analysts say the success of "ultrabook" - a new class of portable computers - they must not only catch up on the price of laptops MacBook Air, but also become much cheaper than the latter. Acer, Toshiba and other manufacturers can not fit a first modification of "ultrathin" laptops, not on Mac OS X in frame $ 999, and Intel, going at the head of this line gives the plans for 2012: notebook chips Ivy Bridge should not cost more than the 699 of dollars.

In the summer there were rumors that Apple plans to introduce a super-slim laptop with a screen diagonal of 15 inches, and now the Japanese resource Macotakara citing an anonymous insider said that Americans already have a prototype of such a computer.

According to the site, which calls its MacBook Air, Apple refuses to use the computers drives and optical drives. Model with hyperfine body can become a member of this family. But on the other hand, it may well be a MacBook Pro.

Which processor will form the basis of this laptop is not reported. Since the MacBook Pro family slightly renewed recently, Apple may be reasonable to wait for the 22-nanometer processors Intel Ivy Bridge, to provide next-generation MacBook Pro. The release of these chips is scheduled for spring 2012.