2017 MBA - is the i7 custom upgrade kabylake too?

[Daniel Reed]

Does anyone know for fact if the i7 upgrade option now on MacBook Air laptops are also KabyLake? T

here was much fan fair about Apple bumping the base i5 version to kabylake from broadwell.

But what about the i7 option, is it also kabylake or still broadwell?

Thanks!

 

[kiwipeso1]

The MBA is still broadwell. The i7 is still the same speed as it has been since 2015. The only difference is that the i5 was slightly speed bumped.

 

[Boyd01]

According to EveryMac, the new i5 MBA is not Kaby Lake and there is no upgrade to the i7. They also don't identify it as a 2017 model, just a 2015 with a 1.8ghz Broadwell i5: http://www.everymac.com/systems/app...book-air-core-i5-1.8-13-early-2015-specs.html
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On June 5, 2017, Apple quietly updated the MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.6 13" (Early 2015) with a modestly faster 14-nm "Broadwell ULT" 1.8 GHz Intel "Core i5" processor (5350U). This model otherwise is identical to late configurations of its predecessor apart from some identifiers.