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Kuo: 2022 MacBook Air to Feature M1 Chip, More Color Options and All-New Design

Lounge vibes 05 said:
Apple clearly said that the MacPro will have the final chip in the M1 Family.
All of the M1 processors the regular, the pro, the max, and the ultra, all share the same firestorm/icestorm cores.
This new chip Will be based on the next generation avalanche/blizzard cores.
So… M2
Not M1X or M1+
We already have all of the mobile M1 chips, there’s no more.
After the Mac Pro is introduced most likely at WWDC, we start all over again with the low end M2, followed by the M2pro and max, then the M2ultra, all based off of the avalanche/blizzard cores.
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I hope that is the case. It’s Apple though, so nothing is stopping them from reusing the M1, even on a new Mac. Just look at A12Z vs. A12X on the iPad Pros.

For all we know, Apple will skip the cores from the A15 chip in macs and go straight to A16 cores. They’ve skipped in the past when it came to the X variants in iPads (A11, A13).
 
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I love the rumored design. If this turns out to be what the next MacBook Air is like it’d be an instant buy from me. I love the idea of a notebook version of the 24” iMac that I already really like.

What are the odds that this (or any Mac laptop) gets 5G support in the near future as well? If so that would be awesome for people starting to commute again. I’d use that all the time.
 
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subjonas said:
I would think it’s impossible if they hadn’t done something similar with the redesign Intel 16” MBP. Except instead of 1.5 years later, it was less than a year I believe. Can’t quite remember.
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subjonas said:
But yeah this doesn’t seem likely.
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The 2019 15 inch MacBook Pro came out in May 2019.
The 16 inch came out in November 2019.
So yeah, that one made sense as there was only five months between updates. I’m not even sure if there was any new Intel processor that they could have put in the 16 inch.
But two years later? A brand new design, a notch, most likely with a price increase? But keeping the exact same processor from the two years old one?
I don’t think so, especially since one of the biggest advantages of the M2 cores will be Power efficiency, especially important in a notebook that’s reportedly getting thinner and lighter.
 
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KPOM said:
Agreed. I'd snap one up in an instant. The 12" MacBook (with a better keyboard) was made for the M series.
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Isn’t that basically exactly what this new MacBook Air is?
It’s supposed to be thinner, lighter, come in colors, fanless… it’ll be a 12 inch MacBook in everything but name and display size, but thinner bezels around a 13 inch display should make it about the size of the 12 inch MacBook.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Quo was wrong twice in the last 5 days.
First he said the new iPhone SE would have MM Wave.
It does not.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1499721483907907586
Secondly, he said the Macpro wouldn’t be out until 2023.
Apple once again reiterated during their event today that the Mac transition would be “two years” and even said the Macpro by name would be the next computer.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1500507564148400128
So I’m taking everything that he says with a grain of salt.
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Yeah I think he maybe getting fed MISS INFO... just to throw him off the scent (and others)
Like the Studio, wasn't "rumored" till the "11th hour" and then BOOM right on the money...
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Isn’t that basically exactly what this new MacBook Air is?
It’s supposed to be thinner, lighter, come in colors, fanless… it’ll be a 12 inch MacBook in everything but name and display size, but thinner bezels around a 13 inch display should make it about the size of the 12 inch MacBook.
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We'll see. The 12" MacBook weighed barely over 2lbs. If the redesigned Air does that, then I'll get it, even if it does have "just" an M1. But I think it will come with the M2.
 
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I love my MBA, but the two biggest issues I have with it are the support for only one external display and I wish it had one more port On the opposite side.
 
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ian87w said:
As long as it's pre-configured.
In my country, we don't have BTO options. Apple only sells the pre-configured models, so for the M1 Macs (Air, mini, iMac), we only have 8GB RAM models.
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Yes, that is what Im referring to as well. In my case I like being able to purchase at Costco and they also only sell those preconfigured versions.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Isn’t that basically exactly what this new MacBook Air is?
It’s supposed to be thinner, lighter, come in colors, fanless… it’ll be a 12 inch MacBook in everything but name and display size, but thinner bezels around a 13 inch display should make it about the size of the 12 inch MacBook.
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It is most certainly not. You obviously didn't have the 12". Best notebook Apple ever made.
 
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Not worth buying until Mac Air has MagSafe again.
I'm still using my old 2014 MBA with MagSafe.
Saw a MBP today with a bent and broken USB C charging cable that someone had tripped over.
Why, oh why did they think removing that was a good idea?
 
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clevins said:
Nope. There's no way they'll launch a new Air with the same internals. If they're actually thinking that, those people should be fired.

Now.... could it be an M1X that's faster and more capable than the M1 but isn't labelled M2? Sure. The name isn't actually important, but the capability of the chip is very important. Things I'd like to see from a new Air:

14" screen (same size, thinner bezels).
An option to support 2 external screens.
4 USB C ports.
An option to do 32G RAM

really, even more important than raw performance upgrades are capability upgrades. The current Air is limited in 3 ways... 16g RAM, 1 external screen, only 2 ports. Give me a small but reasonable performance bump and fix 2 of the other issues and I'm interested in laying down some ?

I don't necessarily expect all of this (aside from the screen) but I think it would make a more compelling release.
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I like the suggestion, especially the 14 inch screen. But if they ship another M1 Air, they'll have to call it the MacBook Junior.
 
Maybe they're looking at the desktop / notebook market where Intel have the i3 / i5 / i7 / i9 CPUs and have maintained the branding of the CPU across multiple generations. Similarly, AMD have the Ryzen 3 / 5 / 7. So perhaps the chip name doesn't increment as it does in the mobile market (iPhone / iPad). This allows for spec bumps between generations of Macs, without the cognitive dissonance that releasing the M2 chip in lower end Macs might cause when higher end Macs still have a variant of M1 chip.
 
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I guess we’re just saying whatever now, and hopping it sticks. It’s been 3 years of the same “rumor” until it doesn’t actually happen, then minor tweaks are made to it, and release date is “in the next one to two years”.
 
Every single time Kuo makes a wild or unpopular prediction, some people get angry.

  • 2017, some people were willing to die on a hill and predict Apple would never abandon Touch ID.
  • 2018, some people thought XR was a joke. "No one would buy LCD."
  • 2019, people didn't think Apple could wait until 2020 for 5G.

The list goes on and history repeats itself.
 
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ian87w said:
Did you miss the Apple even today? Apple is no longer playing the price reduction game. It’s all about increasing prices. Expect these re-colored MacBook Airs to start at $1299, and the old one remains at $999 (if Apple doesn’t kill it).
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The Mac Studio performs better than the top of the line Intel Mac Pro costing 3 times as much and will be substantially cheaper than any comparable alternative in the industry right now… they’re effectively bringing prices down across the board.
 
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