Apple To Unveil New iPod Next Week

Apple will unveil a new range of iPod music players and price cuts at a media event next Tuesday in the US but may not launch a long-awaited update to its MacBook laptop computers until a later date, according to a report in Reuters.

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Apple e-mailed reporters an invitation to a September 9 event entitled “Let’s Rock,” which has an image of a man jumping in the air while listening to an iPod, with the words “playing soon”, according to the report.

It has been forecast that Apple will sell nearly 11 million iPods in its September quarter.

As for a new MacBook, most IT pundits are predicting a new line of the popular Apple laptop to be out by November at the latest.