It seems that the tech journalism world didn’t take much of a Thanksgiving break this year, with a couple of reports detailing a recent Apple land grab from HP as well as rumors on the next iPad, MacBook Pro and Final Cut Pro updates.
MacRumors is reporting that Apple has purchased 98 acres of land in Cupertino previously owned by Hewlett-Packard. The land grab was reported by the Mercury News on Wednesday, which quickly circulated among blogs on Thanksgiving Day. The extra land will reportedly be used to expand Apple’s existing campus.
“Apple’s latest acquisition is the longtime Cupertino campus of rival tech giant Hewlett-Packard,” the Mercury News report revealed. “HP announced over the summer that it planned to move out of that site, which it had occupied for decades, as it consolidates operations at its Palo Alto headquarters over the next two years.”
Meanwhile, a new rumor is speculating on two Apple special events for early next year, with Three Guys and a Podcast claiming that the second-generation iPad will arrive in January, as well as all-new MacBook Pros and a substantial update to Final Cut Pro in April.
There’s not much further information to go on and MacRumors cautions that some of it could be speculative, but it appears that the MacBook Pro may also make the move to solid-state storage as well as lose the optical storage, following the lead of the MacBook Air models released last month.
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