A 15 inch Air would be an instant preorder for me. I’ve been considering getting one of the new 13.6 in ones to replace my 16in MBP despite the screen size. But… with this rumor, I’m going to wait to see what happens next year. Sure would love a 15in model.
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Apple Working on 15-Inch MacBook Air and 12-Inch MacBook for 2023
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The only reason I need a pro chip is that I like to attach multiple monitors at the same time. One is not enough.
Give me a 12" that:
- Is as small and light (or smaller and lighter) than the previous 12"
- Has Magic keyboard
- Has one TB4 port and magsafe (at minimum)
- Has reasonable battery life
- Has reasonable price ($999 - $1199)
...and I will buy it in a heartbeat.
- Is as small and light (or smaller and lighter) than the previous 12"
- Has Magic keyboard
- Has one TB4 port and magsafe (at minimum)
- Has reasonable battery life
- Has reasonable price ($999 - $1199)
...and I will buy it in a heartbeat.
In terms of music, I can do A LOT on a regular ol 8th gen iPad. But I still have to use it as more of a sketchpad. However, I'll say the ease at which I can import GB for iOS stuff into Logic IS pretty slick. But if they did do Logic on iPad, even if they forced it to be only on the M1, I'd probably cave in and get one.
that's what the regular MacBook is supposed to be. the air name comes from a super thin tapered laptop at a time when laptops were bulky. and it worked with the first extra thin iPads. now the name is irrelevant .
My ideal Mac lineup: MBA 12 super slim form (M2), MBA 15 slim (M2,M2P), MBP 14 and 16(M2P and M2M), Mac mini (M2P,M2X), Mac Studio (M2X, M2U), iMac 24 (M2P, M2M), iMac 30 (M2M, M2U), Mac Pro (M2U)
i don't know why, but it does seem like they are decoupling big screens from pro/expensive--a welcome change. I hope it happens for the phones too.
Wait?…..
You want the MacBook Air to be more ‘slim’/thin than it already is? It’s ridiculously thin as it is. When you start sacrificing aesthetics just for the sake of being thin, then the trade-off is vulnerability to be more easily damaged.
Well, the fall and winter are certainly NOT going to be boring.
Esp. if the Mac Pros get announced in Sept. Oct. as well.
Esp. if the Mac Pros get announced in Sept. Oct. as well.
We were responding to the following sentence in your post: "They seriously need to stop calling the iPad Pro a 'pro' device, when they don't even offer Logic or FCP on it." Hope that helps.
For my current use cases, same. I'd also get my mother to buy one TBH.
Her eyesight makes a 13" challenging but she doesn't want to spend $2k for a Pro device that is way overkill for her basic office work needs.
Honestly, I think Apple locking large display sizes behind performance is actually a real accessibility issue.
This makes me really curious as to how they'll price the entire lineup going forward. I think that the 15 inch air will be closer to the MacBook Pro 14 in its price, so by the time you spec it out it gets closer to the 16 inch mbp, just like what they did with the 13 inch air right now.
New twelve inches? That's my travel companion sorted out. I like my 12.9 inch iPad very much and I use it a lot but in an office environment it still isn't quite there. A new MacBook will be the way to "keep it simple".
Apple is working on a 15-inch MacBook Air that could be released as early as next spring, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The 15-inch MacBook Air would be close to the size of the larger-screened 16-inch MacBook Pro, and it would be Apple's largest MacBook Air to date. The current 2022 MacBook Air has the biggest display Apple has released so far at 13.6 inches.
The 15-inch MacBook Air would use the same design as the current 13.6-inch model, which eliminated the tapered frame that the MacBook Air used for years.
Alongside the 15-inch MacBook Air, Apple is working on a smaller 12-inch machine as well, though the naming of the tinier machine is unclear. Apple has not offered a 12-inch notebook since the 12-inch Retina MacBook that has since been discontinued.
The 15-inch MacBook Air could be released in early 2023 at a planned spring event, and the 12-inch MacBook could come at the end of 2023 or early 2024.
High-end MacBook Pro models equipped with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips are in the works and could launch at the end of 2022, though Gurman warns that the release date could be pushed back until 2023.
The M2 Max chip will feature a 12-core CPU and up to a 38-core GPU, up from the 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU in the current M1 Max. Apple is also already developing M3 chips for machines that will come out further in the future.
Finally, Apple is developing new 11 and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models that are also expected to use the M-series chips, and these new iPads are planned for later in 2022.
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Big screen is a must have. I work a lot of places and there is no monitor to plug into.
13" screens are just too small.
16 Sound system is very nice.
16 is heavy when I gotta take it places.
A 15 Air would be just about perfect. 3.5 pounds, M2, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD. USB-C ports, Mag safe, best wifi 6 available & bluetooth, Midnight
A larger screen variant has always been a $100 or $200 upcharge spec-for-spec, so assuming they'd launched the 15" alongside the new 13.6" M2 and it began with the same 8/256 configuration you'd be looking at $1,299 or $1,399 price of admission (vs $2.5K for the 16" Pro). Realistically much more than that begins to defeat the point of the machine in being a cheaper, smaller, lighter full-size laptop. Assuming the above, a 16/512 configuration would be $1,699 to $1,799, which would bring the 14" into contention, with a smaller but better display and more power, so it's probably right around where they will want it pricing wise.
Apple product offerings are getting too complicated. I prefer the days when they just told us what we wanted and we bought it.
They no longer have product visionaries in the way they once did
I think it explains all the strange product directions and reversions over the last decade.
What is so complicated? Do your research and make a decision based on need and budget.
I’d take this ‘rumour’ with the biggest chunk of salt you can find! Because it makes zero sense. Your telling me they will make a 12” MacBook Air, which looking at the 13.6” model price, would cost the same or less then the 12” iPad Pro? Rubbish.