{"id":6876,"date":"2018-09-13T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:34:59","slug":"holding-onto-the-hope-of-an-apple-mac-launch-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/holding-onto-the-hope-of-an-apple-mac-launch-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"MacWorks, LLC Cited In CRN Article &#8211; &#8216;Holding Onto The Hope&#8217; Of An Apple Mac Launch This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We are holding onto the hope that there will be other product announcements this fall,&#8221; said Jerry Zigmont, owner of MacWorks, a Conn.-based Apple consultant that focuses on Mac desktops and notebooks. &#8220;Some of these [Mac] products are in desperate need of a refresh.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6877 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macbook_air-530x396.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Zigmont said that the MacBook Pro and iMac Pro, which have been getting a higher degree of attention from Apple, are out of the price range and have more computational power than needed for many of his customers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a lot of business users, that type of product doesn&#8217;t make sense for them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But advising clients to buy &#8220;old inventory&#8221; such as the MacBook Air or iMac is out of the question, Zigmont noted.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, \u201cthe refresh times between [Mac] products are just too slow,&#8221; he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crn.com\/news\/mobility\/-holding-onto-the-hope-of-an-apple-mac-launch-this-fall\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;&#8216;Holding Onto The Hope&#8217; Of An Apple Mac Launch This Fall&#8221;<\/a> by Kyle Alspach<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are holding onto the hope that there will be other product announcements this fall,&#8221; said Jerry Zigmont, owner of MacWorks, a Conn.-based Apple consultant that focuses on Mac desktops and notebooks. &#8220;Some of these [Mac] products are in desperate need of a refresh.&#8221; &#8220;Zigmont said that the MacBook Pro and iMac Pro, which have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,485,486,14],"tags":[118,126,119],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-products","category-imac","category-macbook-air","category-macintosh","tag-apple","tag-apple-consulting-ct","tag-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8364,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/8364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}