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As we head into E3 2012 and presumably see new consoles get announced released like the Wii U and hopefully the next generation Xbox 360 and PS4, the console wars will come back much like a mighty bear it's hibernating but it will eventually wake up again. So, hopefully that helps answer your question.

Our next question comes from Louis Holas, who actually I met at the London meetup that we had just a few months back. This is Louis Holas, who asks "Do you think Apple will bring out a 7-inch iPad to compete with the Kindle Fire?" So if you guys are tech fiends or you'd just like to keep up with the tech world, you'll know that Amazon released a Fire on the world today this is not the BlackBerry Playbook, this is in fact the Kindle Fire that came out this week. Depending on what day you're watching this video, it's a seven-inch tablet that uses Amazon's obviously really robust digital distribution system to bring content to your device for TV, video, and of course for books. They're not the only seven-inch competitor on the market; Barnes and Noble also announced and released their Nook Tablet to very nicely sit with the Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Color. There have been rumors of Apple releasing an iPad Mini or iPad Micro, whatever they might want to call it, of the seven-inch variety, and actually that was claims that we heard um get validated in the Steve Jobs autobiography. Jonathan Ive, one of Apple's lead designers, said they laid out a ton of different screen sizes and Steve Jobs picked the size that he liked eventually ended up being a 9.7 inch green. Other sizes do exist, you've heard rumors and grumblings that Apple was thinking about releasing another model, but I think if anything the iPad screen is going to get bigger not smaller. I think we're going to see a widescreen format iPad, probably a 10-inch screen coming out presumably with the iPad 3. I do not think we're getting smaller than a seven-inch base; I don't think that's a really niche that Apple wants to compete in.

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Our next question comes from user Splat, who asks "Apple's MacBook Air received an update recently and with news of the upcoming 15-inch super thin laptops coming next year do you think the MacBook Pros will receive a major facelift soon?" You may be referring to the ultrabooks that are coming out now; they are super-thin PCs that are sort of reminiscent of the MacBook Air. The 15-inch model that you're referring to may very well end up being a MacBook Air line and may perhaps drop the MacBook Pro moniker from the line. So, presumably we're going to see thinner, sleeker probably wedge-shaped 15-inch MacBook Pros if you want to get a MacBook Pro that has a disk drive now is the time to do it because I'm just guessing that we are no longer going to see those disk drives be present; we saw them leave in the MacBook Air. And I think we're going sounds like a like an airline, MacBook Airlines, can you imagine flying on MacBook Airlines? I bet it would look super modern. It'd be like flying in a giant IKEA, but I digress. I think we're going to see a 15-inch model very reminiscent of the 11 and 13-inch MacBook Air models that we have right now just larger. So hopefully that helps answer your question.

Thank you guys for tuning in and watching another episode of Ask the Buffalo; I'm your host John Rettinger from Technobuffalo, your one-stop source for unboxing reviews news and bad jokes and everything from the world of technology. I will see you guys in the next video, don't laugh that's not funny.