Ross Younger, CEO of Show Provide Chain Consultants, simply despatched out a tweet to his subscribers that implies we might see a brand new 15-inch MacBook Air in simply a few months. As an business analyst who focuses on shows, Younger’s observe document with rumors of this sort is normally fairly stable.
Based on Younger, the show panel for this new MacBook Air has only in the near past entered manufacturing. Given the time-frame for panel manufacturing on previous MacBooks, this factors to a launch in early April, which might align with an Apple spring occasion. Additionally rumored for that occasion are a brand new Apple silicon-based Mac Professional and the long-awaited debut of the Apple AR headset.
Outdoors of the show, which is alternately 15.2 inches or 15.5 inches relying on which rumors you’re following, we don’t actually know what different specs to anticipate. It would clearly have an M2 processor, however some counsel that an M2 Professional choice could be out there as nicely. This would chop the hole with the MacBook Professional, which begins at $1,999, although a 15-inch MacBook Air would nonetheless lack most of the Professional-level options, together with HDR ProMotion shows, further ports, an SDXC card slot, and an M2 Max processor choice.
Some have speculated that the M3 chip would make its debut on this product, but when it arrives in April, that appears impossible—most rumors don’t anticipate that chip till the second half of 2023 or early 2024.
We anticipate the bigger mannequin to begin at a value that locations it between the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air ($1,199/£1,249) and the 14-inch M2 Professional MacBook Professional ($1,999/£2,149). Given the opposite benefits of the MacBook Professional, a beginning value of $1,499/£1549 appears cheap.
