15-inch MacBook Air might have one benefit over the present M2 mannequin

Apple’s Mac pipeline for the remainder of this 12 months consists of the first-ever 15-inch MacBook Air and long-awaited Mac Professional with Apple Silicon. With these machines on the horizon, a brand new submitting from Apple might inform us extra about what to anticipate from the {hardware}.

As famous by Joe Rossignol, Apple has filed a brand new itemizing for an upcoming Mac outfitted with Bluetooth 5.3. Apple retroactively provides which merchandise these filings are for after they launch.

With each the 15-inch MacBook Air and M-series Mac Professional anticipated between now and June, we will assume that this Bluetooth itemizing can be revealed to be for a kind of merchandise.

Apple already helps Bluetooth 5.3 in a number of latest {hardware} together with the iPhone 14 household and AirPods Professional 2. You too can discover the present Bluetooth spec within the new MacBook Professional and Mac mini fashions launched final month.

With out with the ability to decide if this itemizing is for the following MacBook Air or Mac Professional, there’s nonetheless one thing fascinating to find.

Some base M2 chips are Bluetooth 5.0, and different base M2 chips are Bluetooth 5.3. This appears to rely on when the {hardware} was first launched. For instance, the M2 MacBook Air launched final spring has Bluetooth 5.0, and the M2 Mac mini launched final month has Bluetooth 5.3.

The Bluetooth spec doesn’t appear to be one thing Apple makes use of to differentiate enter stage and excessive finish machines both. The 14-inch M1 Professional MacBook Professional, for instance, used Bluetooth 5.0 whereas the up to date model makes use of Bluetooth 5.3. Timing seems to be the determinate issue on Bluetooth specs, not worth.

If the submitting is for the 15-inch MacBook Air, it might imply the brand new laptop computer can have higher Bluetooth than the 13-inch model from final 12 months even when they each use the bottom M2.

Once more, the Mac mini tells us that two Macs can use the identical M2 chip and have completely different Bluetooth specs, and entry stage {hardware} and better finish {hardware} each utilizing Bluetooth 5.3 since final fall suggests this itemizing doesn’t should be for the Mac Professional.