Battery Likely for New MacBook Air Again Spotted in Certification Listings

[dgdosen]

Those wings make it extend to > 300mm (a bit less than 12") which infers the width of a 13" laptop (air or pro?).

I'd rather have the battery as close as possible to the size of a magic keyboard (~11") - that would signal the return of a 12" device.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Same battery level, on an Apple Silicon 5nm that should increase the battery life from 9-10 hours to about 13-14 real battery life

I’m think closer to 18hrs real world.More importantly is the metrics of performance compared to the earlier 2020 MBA that were dying to see. This will give us an idea of how the first gen ASi Macs will perform.

 

[JPack]

I’m not sure why people continue to say the design has to change with Apple silicon, that’s not necessarily true. Most of the Intel machines changed very little during the Intel transition. I’m not saying a redesign is unlikely, it does make sense. But, Apple has been planning this transition for a while, it’s not impossible that the current MacBook Air was designed with both Intel and Apple silicon in mind.

People seem to believe Apple can snap their fingers and tell their engineers to go design a new chassis. All without considering that Apple has a finite number of engineers and that new things introduce new risks. And as if it were not risky enough moving from one ISA to another.

 

[dgdosen]

With the new battery geometry, maybe Apple is making more room in the center of the chassis to allow for user upgradeable RAM

 

[Jimmy James]

If be very surprised if it’s a MBA refresh of the same chassis, given how poor the thermal performance currently is.
If hedge my bets that this is for the first ARM MacBook.

I was cynically wondering if the thermals are intentionally bad so they can show how much better their processors are.

 

[JPack]

With the new battery geometry, maybe Apple is making more room in the center of the chassis to allow for user upgradeable RAM

It has the same geometry as before. The blank area in the center is for the trackpad.