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Kuo: Redesigned MacBook Air With Apple Silicon to Enter Mass Production in Third Quarter of 2022

Having the design be switched for colors and white bezels is fine. It's screen brightness and size that makes me debate between this and a 14 inch pro. Truth of the matter is that most of my time is in an office plugged into a larger display (either my 5K iMac or now in my apartment a 4K LG display with true retina pixel to pixel ratio (the 24 inch one). This would be for traveling and coffee shops, but I truly think that 14 inch is the perfect laptop screen form factor. But that hypothetical green or a blue or a purple would be super sick looking.

On the other hand, the pro does have more ports, and I can always slap a d brand skin on it.
 
I hope this doesn't mean a 2 year cycle is becoming the norm 😐 Ideally the key MacBooks would be updated on a yearly cycle, with the rest on 18-24m cycles.
 
Harlowgold1 said:
I love having variety in my Apple products. However, why does this look so cheap to me? It looks like something Barbie would have in her townhouse.
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Let’s hope this mockup stays in someone’s imagination. Apple has gone way too over to the fashion side in the past few years, both in hardware and software, and they’re diluting the secret sauce.
 
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SmugMaverick said:
I wish I didn't wait, I'm on a 2015 Pro but it's trash now and so laggy and slow, I don't know if it will last me another year with how garbage its behaving.
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What's maddening about this is that the hardware hasn't changed a bit since you bought it -- except the OS and whatever software updates that have become more and more demanding over time.

Apple supporting older hardware with newer OS releases is really a double-edged sword: you get the new features on older hardware, but it slows said hardware down enough to make people want to replace it.

I really wish there was some effort when they put out a new OS to deprecate certain features and demands so that older hardware gets a "slimmed down" version that doesn't, as you say, make it laggy and slow.

I'm facing the same thing right now with my oldest piece of Apple hardware, which is an iPad Mini 4. It's never been a beast, but sometime around maybe iPadOS 14 it started feeling conspicuously slow. And now under iPadOS 15 it's becoming a very awful experience to use it. I know, I could buy a new iPad and the problem would go away. But then 5 years down the road that super smooth and zippy iPad would slow to a crawl under iPadOS 18 or whatever.

And this cycle obviously applies to Macs as well. I'm fully aware that in that same time frame the M1 Air and M1 iMac I just bought -- which are a delight to use -- will later start "getting slow" because of software design choices.
 
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Falhófnir said:
I hope this doesn't mean a 2 year cycle is becoming the norm 😐 Ideally the key MacBooks would be updated on a yearly cycle, with the rest on 18-24m cycles.
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Why? The current M1 architecture switch aside, it's hard to see a compelling reason to overhaul MacBooks every single year.
 
velocityg4 said:
It would need to be three displays for me. If it can only handle three displays total. I'd want it to have the option of disabling the internal display when connected to three external displays.
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Btw your sig file makes me think about Apple forcing the over-minimalist too-white iOS and OS X interface design down our throats with limited options to un-minimalize it back into a pleasant-looking intuitive state.
 
The Intel Air and MBP typically received approximately annual processor updates, but the Mini and iMac could languish for 2–3 years without a refresh. As it appears most Macs will now be sharing either of two basic AS chip designs, I wonder if they'll all (poss. except the Mac Pro, which may be a different beast) now be getting annual processor refreshes, matching the annual generational improvement of the sister chip used in the iPhone.

M#: Air, low-end Mini, low-end small iMac, low-end 13" MBP (which may be discontinued)
M#X: high-end Mini, 14" & 16" MBP, high-end small iMac, large iMac*
*It's possible they may put something even more powerful in the large iMac, since it certainly has the thermals for it.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple plans to begin mass production of an upcoming redesigned MacBook Air featuring an updated, more powerful Apple silicon processor in the third quarter of 2022, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in a research note obtained by MacRumors.

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Kuo has previously stated that the new MacBook Air will feature an entirely new design, including a mini-LED display and a more powerful Apple silicon processor. Kuo had earlier pinpointed a launch around the middle of 2022, now providing a more specific timeline for the late second quarter or early third quarter of 2022 for mass production getting underway.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has reported that the new MacBook Air will feature a "thinner and lighter" enclosure, two USB 4 ports, and a MagSafe charging connector. Apple leaker and YouTube personality Jon Prosser shared renders for the alleged upcoming MacBook Air earlier this year, showing most notably of all that Apple plans to release the new laptop in a range of colors, similar to the 24-inch M1 iMac.

Apple last updated its MacBook Air with the M1 chip last November, which maintained the previous MacBook Air design. Despite the expectation that Apple will update several Macs in its lineup with Apple silicon before the end of this year, the MacBook Air doesn't seem like it'll be one of them.

Article Link: Kuo: Redesigned MacBook Air With Apple Silicon to Enter Mass Production in Third Quarter of 2022
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You can fit a 13" screen in the 12" Macbook enclosure by removing the bezels, which is the direction all Apple products are taking.

Either the next Macbook Air will be the same size with a 14" screen, or it will be smaller with a 13" screen. The latter certainly strikes me as more likely, as it will better differentiate the Air from the Pro models, and anyway they clearly have a boner for thin-and-lights.
 
Eric_WVGG said:
You can fit a 13" screen in the 12" Macbook enclosure by removing the bezels, which is the direction all Apple products are taking.
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They couldn't. The 13" screen in the MBA is 11.28"W x 7.05"H. The external dimensions of the last-generation MacBook are 11.04"W x 7.74"H. It's not wide enough.
 
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Realityck said:
Guess we can also say these redesigned MB Airs will come in several colors other then the usual space grey, gold and silver.
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I hope they still have the basic colors. I really don't like the pastels. Another reason why I am glad I am buying a new 15" MacBook Air now.
 
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