Will Apple Finally Include 3G with i5/i7 MacBook Pros?

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Seth Weintraub at Computerworld has assembled a compendium of the best information available and surmises that the new i5/i7 MacBook Pros may well include 3G. Now that the ice is broken with iPad data plans, the MacBooks could well be next.

First, Mr, Weintraub collected all the available information about possible MacBook Pros getting the new i5 and i7 chips. Then he surmised that a Mac as powerful and data hungry as a MacBook Pro might have to have data plans that cost a little more.

"So it seems like a MacBook Pro update is coming -- maybe even in time for Macworld -- and Apple's been negotiating data contracts with the telcos. Put those two together and you may have another reason to get an update," Mr. Weintraub wrote. "Perhaps they'll finally build 3G capability into their MacBook Pros, so that their power users don't have to carry unwieldy, inelegant 3G dongles with them to get the same 3G access that Dell and HP users have had built-in for three years."

Given the evidence presented, it all seems reasonable. But, so far, it has to remain simply intriguing speculation.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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