MacBook Air: Apple MacBook Air refresh arriving Wednesday?... (400,000) !!

            The expected 2011 refresh of the Apple MacBook Air may arrive as soon as this Wednesday.

The renowned Apple leak-artist known as Chronic claimed on Twitter that he's "100 per cent sure" that the new iteration of the ultra-thin laptop will be landing in Apple retail stores on Wednesday morning.

Meetings are thought to be happening at Apple Stores on Tuesday, which usually signals a new product will be hitting the shelves and Chronic is in no doubt that these will be the new Air laptops.

The new MacBook Air refresh is expected to remain identical in terms of size and build, but is thought to include Intel's Sandy Bridge processors and the super-fast Thunderbird I/O technology.

June production

The revelation came following reports that Apple has placed an order for almost 400,000 new MacBook Airs to be produced during the month of June.

Concord Securities analyst Ming Chi-Kou told the guys at AppleInsider that production of 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models will be ongoing this month.

He also reckons that Cupertino has ordered a final production run of 80,000 existing dual-core MacBook Airs, so the arrival of the refresh might not be as imminent as Chronic suggests.

Another thing to note about this story is that, judging from his Twitter pic, Chronic is leading a double life as would-be Dragon King  Vaseyrs Targerian from Game of Thrones.
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