14 DAY TRIAL // Early, new-model MacBook Pro benchmarks have shown that Apple’s most popular Mac is indeed speedier, following yesterday’s upgrades, but still not screaming on the CPU front. Apple’s CEO allegedly said in an email that the company decided to focus on beefing up only the 15-inch and 17-inch configurations with Intel’s Core i processors, touting battery life as more important for the 13-incher. Downplaying rumors of Apple shifting development resources away from OS X and towards iPhone OS 4.0, Steve Jobs said “not to worry,” according to another report.
MacRumors points out that some have questioned why Apple did not make a more substantial upgrade to the processors used in the 13-inch MacBook models. It reports that, “One interested party even went so far as to send an email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs about the decision.” The person in question shared Jobs' response with the site.
Apple’s CEO reportedly said that, for the 13-inch model, Apple decided to focus on combining graphics performance with battery, suggesting it was addressing the kind of performance these customers were looking for. “We chose killer graphics plus 10 hour battery life over a very small CPU speed increase. Users will see far more performance boost from the speedy graphics,” was Jobs’ response, according to the site.
Elsewhere on the web it is being reported that a handful of Mac users are concerned that Apple’s recent focus on the iPhone and iPad is taking away from the development resources that would otherwise go into Mac OS X 10.7, a yet-unconfirmed Mac OS X iteration.
Speculation on this front emerged when Apple pundit John Gruber posted a blog update saying that, “A few months ago, I heard suggestions that Apple had tentative plans to release a developer beta of Mac OS X 10.7 at WWDC this June. That is no longer the case,” and adding that, although Mac OS X 10.7 development was still underway, Apple had allegedly set in place “a reduced team and an unknown schedule.” Gruber thus concluded, based on experience, that, “There will be no 10.7 news at WWDC this year, and probably none until WWDC 2011.”
A Canada resident now claims to have received word on the matter straight from Apple’s CEO. The person leaked the email conversation to 9to5mac.
“I was wondering, is it true that the iPhone 4 is cutting into OSX development causing a delay, as a big Mac user, this is of huge concern to me,” this person reportedly said to Jobs. “I just hope your balancing development and working as much as you can. Is OSX development still a huge priority? I have a worry that Apple is branching away from computers and not updating their computer customers as much.”
Jobs’ reply allegedly was, “No. Not to worry.”
