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What to Expect If Apple Debuts a New MacBook Air at WWDC Next Week
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I find every reason to have it. I have no intention of taking it out of my house with any frequency, but certainly intend to move it all over inside my house. My wife and I have a large living room and are often a pretty good distance from an outlet, so Magsafe would provide some added security if the cord is taut or close to it. We have three cats who are known to be rambunctious, and I could certainly see them accidentally pulling a USB-C powered laptop to the floor.
Surely at least one USB-C port will remain, so you can have your USB-C charging, and those who find a use for Magsafe can use it instead.
Many people want it because they prefer the MagSafe connector to USB-C. You can't please everyone, but better to have it and not want it then to want it and not have it ?
this would be the first time Apple released something at the RIGHT time for me (where in its the product I need currently at this exact time - i need a new basic laptop ASAP- but didn't want to get the (relatively) long in the tooth M1 air if Apple was releasing something new in less than 3 months.
So since a new macbook Air would be perfect right now - I do not believe it will happen lol.
If it's just an announcement with expected ship date in Fall... well then I'm in the same boat.... but at least I can see if its worth the wait!
Cautiously optimistic this happens but will not get my hopes up much. If there is a 15'' option I'll be pumped eitherway.
So since a new macbook Air would be perfect right now - I do not believe it will happen lol.
If it's just an announcement with expected ship date in Fall... well then I'm in the same boat.... but at least I can see if its worth the wait!
Cautiously optimistic this happens but will not get my hopes up much. If there is a 15'' option I'll be pumped eitherway.
I'd love a 12" M2 Macbook Air. Super portable yet powerful enough for most. Give it a decent battery, option to get 32GB of RAM and ability to connect multiple external monitors, and it might just be the ideal machine for a lot of IT pros.
And please no white notch
And please no white notch
WWDC is the spotlight for the Mac Pro. Apple wouldn't announce the consumer M2 Macbook Air until later this year in November, just like when they announced the M1 Macbook Air.
My 12" MacBook came out at WWDC 2017. So did my 27" iMac. The MacBook Air was also updated at the same time.
Not that I think they'll do this, but a nice simple lineup for Apple, kinda hearkening back to the G4 days, would be:
Consumer line:
* 13" Macbook Air (or just Macbook)
* 15" Macbook Air (or just Macbook)
Professional line:
* 14" Macbook Pro
* 16" Macbook Pro
Personally what I really want though is the 2016 12" Macbook, but with an M2 and the current keyboard. I think Apple sees iPads as covering that end of the market these days however
That was 5 years ago. Since then, the only Mac announced were the 3rd gen Mac Pro in 2019, and the A12Z developer transition kit in 2020 (if we count that one). Apple seems to refocus WWDC to be mainly about the OSes.
We'll see soon enough.
options. these machines can all be charged using usbc. magsafe is in addition to this.
fair enough, I didn't think about it from the bus connection aspect. Thinking about that now I don't mind the re-addition of those 2 at the cost of a port. SD isn't super useful to me on my work laptop, like it is for some, but would be if my 16" were a personal machine (I have a lot of raspberry pis handling projects around the house for one thing), and the HDMI port is useful when I have to go somewhere and present, and with conferences coming back to being in person that's going to become a thing again.
On the MBA though it better keep 2 usbc/tb ports!
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I think the point here is that Apple releases Macs when it makes sense to release them, whether or not it's WWDC or some other event, or no event at all.That was 5 years ago. Since then, the only Mac announced were the 3rd gen Mac Pro in 2019, and the A12Z developer transition kit in 2020 (if we count that one). Apple seems to refocus WWDC to be mainly about the OSes.
We'll see soon enough.
If the new MacBook Air is ready to be released here, it will be. If it's not, it won't.
Also, if it did actually include M2, WWDC would be the perfect venue for it.
Here's to hoping Apple *really* surprises us and introduces an M2 that blows everyone away with performance. I doubt it, but you never know. Though it does sound more like the M2, when it does get released, is going to be a relatively modest performance bump (OTOH the M1 is still so fast that that's ok)
If that's the case, then the Mac Pro must be using an M2 Ultra or something. It would be awkward if Apple announced an M2 Macbook Air, but still used M1-derivative for the much more expensive Mac Pro.
I mentioned in other threads that I believe the Mac Pro won't be M anything. I believe it will have a different nomenclature, regardless of what core architecture it is based upon.
I'm a 12" MacBook owner, and I prefer smaller sized Mac laptops. However, I think the market has spoken with regards to that size.
OTOH, some are claiming the new MacBook Air go to 13.6" instead of the current 13.3". In that context, instead of the 12.1" MacBook, something like a 12.5" MacBook be released. Plus, if they reduced the bezel sizes, they could fit it in a frame roughly the size of the 12.1" MacBook. I'm pretty confident they won't do it though, since people would still gravitate to the Airs for size.
"While we're here giving a presentation to our developers who use mostly mid to high end hardware, let's take a moment to introduce the new MacBook Air, our lowest end Mac that none of you will buy, with goofy colors and white bezels that absolutely no one asked for."
That makes absolutely no sense at all. Nothing about the M2 requires dev attention. It is a chip with modestly boosted cores. No new technology to develop for. Least of all its use in the lowest end product in the lineup that developers don't even use.