I think 2012 will be a transition year, in management as well as in products, to continue transforming Apple from a computer company (the old Apple Computer Inc), to a mass-product company. Ivy Bridge A new generation of Mac will come with Ivy Bridge, that will mainly improve over Sandy Bridge, except for one point: HD4000 GPU! The Ivy Bridge is the last evolution from the core micro architecture that appeared on the Core™2 CPU in 2006 (yes 5 years!), and in mono-threaded application, there are few progress, the most obvious is the Turbo-boost that speed-up the core up to 4Ghz depending on the CPU. Sandy Bridge came with HD3000 & HD2000 GPU integrated to the CPU, that offered a performance-level similar to nVidia 320M with 2-monitor support. Ivy Bridge’s HD4000 will support easily 3 monitors with 4096×4096 resolution, and 2X performance increase: discrete GPU are less and less necessary! Thunderbolt on PC Thunderbolt on Mac as been a failure this year with only 2 peripherals available, 10 months after the launch! Intel will launch at least 1 high-end motherboard for PC computers in 2012, but except if an OEM or big player (Dell or HP) have a full range