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Gurman: New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Airs Likely to Launch by Summer
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No, there are no dates for the 15” MBA. The rumors have been going back and forth with it coming out in the first half or second half of 2023. About once a month the rumors switch. No one outside Apple knows for sure. They are just interpreting supply chase information or leaks from insiders who don’t always know the full details.I see the dates are slipping for the 15” MBA
The crazy thing is even the 512GB on the pro was gimped compared to the previous gen. (article link) I get what you are saying about the base models, but the computer it's replacing shouldn't be faster than the "new" one.
While I agree that it doesn’t make sense to put the M3 into the 13” and not into the 15”, I don’t believe that Apple or anyone believes that a lot of people will upgrade from the M2 MBA to the M3 MBA. Macs are not an annual upgrade product. Even phones aren’t for most people though some people do. Macs are generally kept for several years before someone spends money on an upgrade.
There is no LCD in a micro-LED. The micro-LED is an LED where each subpixel is an emitter. There is no backlight. It is closer to OLED but the emitters are built using silicon instead of organic compounds.
For me the 15" MacBoor Air is a day one purchase if it has teleportation functionality. Even if it comes with a M1.
I've never understood this line of reasoning.
If Apple releases an M2 15-inch MBA on July 1st and an M3 15-inch MBA on July 2nd and a lot of people buy the M2 model, then the existence of the M3 model doesn't suddenly negate their purchase. It comes with exactly the specs it was advertised with. It doesn't suddenly have some hardware flaw. It'll even get improvements through free software upgrades, for years to come.
M2 was based on A15’s core design (2021 release) so it would follow that M3 would be based on A16, no?
I guess the one caveat is that A16 was 4nm (really 5nm) and A17/M3 is expected to be on the new 3nm node.
Depends on when the M3 ships. If they stick to a ~18-month schedule, they have to skip an A generation sooner or later. If the M3 ships in fall, it stands to reason that it skips the A16 altogether.
If not Summer, then Winter. If not Winter it will be 2024 at least...😂
Thats pretty much how Mark Grumman's rumors progress. If you can't talk about whats coming in the immediate future why not say there is a remote possibility it will come sooner like the M3 rumors.
Gurman should really get lost from the Apple community. Incorrect information/prediction on M2 Max/Pro MacBook Pro launch, followed by MacPro, Air.
Gurman and the other pundits have been wrong a fair bit as of late, but I think it is not so much as poor guessing on their part and more poor execution on Apple's and their supplier's part (for whatever reasons) pushing product launches back later than originally planned (which is what Gurman and others report on).
I'm still perfectly happy with my M1 MacBook Air. Right now an M2 Pro Mac Mini is on my "next Mac to buy" goal, and I suspect I'll still be using my M1 Air for another five or six years before I'm ready to replace it, and when I do, I may go for a 15" model, or possibly a 14" or 16" MacBook Pro. But like I said, that's years from now.
Back in 2018 there was some articles about Apple working on micro-LED displays for iPhones, but 5 years later it's still an unknown to when. In the meanwhile OLED has become a lot more common in the marketplace with rigid/flexable/transparent applications. Samsung has ditched LCD panels and gone making OLED TVs. For awhile Samsung was pitching micro-LED coming, but the economics is just not there for mainstream consumers.
We can't assume technology is evolving the same for everything, thats ridiculous thought. You still have micro-LED TVs limited to very large panels, 3nm Processor architecture without design/implementation issues, 8K TVs that don't have the ecosystem to replace 4K TVs. The same goes for expecting Apple to roll out new more powerful AS SoCs in barely a year.
For a laugh this Sunday look at recently LG and Samsung going at each other still.
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My 13 MBA M2 16/1TB - is just fabulous, although I encourage everyone to get the 16GB memory and more drive space than they need initially. I can't see what a 2023 MBA upgrade would bring unless it had built-in 5G. Otherwise, I am waiting for the 2024 / M4 that Gurman hasn't announced yet
If it’s five steps forward and one step back, isn’t it still four steps forward?
Do I need it? No.
Has this machine made my tool "disappear" where I just focus on the task at hand? yes.
With that in mind, would I ever go back to using x86? No.
And that is why it is so awesome that there is choice. You are the prime consumer that Intel wished everyone was. That Blackberry only dreamt of. That Nokia is still wistful for over. That Smith Corona believed would always stand by it. That Myspace and Yahoo never fathomed would abandon them. THE patient that doctors could counted on, for never having to ditch their leeches and miasma encyclopedias .
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