In addition of some interesting figures about the production of the, iPod shuffle and the Mac mini, Digitimes reveals today that Apple has already passed an order to one of its main manufacturers in Taiwan, Quanta Computer, for 50 000/month PowerBook G5 units. Moreover, Asustek will manufacture an undetermined number of iBook G5 laptops.

Delivery date for the Powerbooks and the iBooks is set to the second quarter of this year. By the way we can expect the products to be announced by June. This pieace of information is in contradiction with recent comments of Tim Cook who claimed that it was a big challenge for Apple to put a PowerPC G5 processor in laptop computers and that it won't happen before a long time.