Barely a handful of days have passed since Apple introduced the new MacBook Air with the brand new M2 chip and a design inherited from the most powerful MacBook Pro, but there is already news about the version that would see the light next year. According to Mark Gurman of Bloombergthose from Cupertino plan to launch a larger version the world’s best-selling laptop. But that is not all: they would also be working on a laptop only 12 inches.
The aforementioned journalist specifies that Apple works in a 15-inch MacBook Air, which would maintain the design of the model we saw this week. The details regarding its possible characteristics are practically nil; It is only mentioned that it would be a little wider than the 13.6” version, something that is logically due to the increase in the size of the panel.
An interesting fact is that, supposedly, those from Cupertino would have originally aimed to present it to society this year. However, they would have chosen to delay it and focus on the redesign of the M2 chip version that was introduced at the opening keynote of WWDC 2022.
Is Apple reviving the 12-inch MacBook?
What is really striking is that, according to Gurman, Apple would also be working on a new laptop model. It would include a 12-inch screen, but it could be more than a year before we see it on the market; Apparently, Californians would aim to launch it between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024.
The big question is whether this supposed device will fit into the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro families. or if it will mean the return of the MacBook to dry. Recall that, between 2015 and 2017, Apple introduced three versions of what was also known as the “new MacBook” or “MacBook Retina” with a 12-inch screen. But the device ended up suffering from the MacBook Air, drifting off course and being discontinued in mid-2019; since then Apple has not offered laptops of that size again.
News about future releases
In the same report of Bloomberg, Mark Gurman has disclosed what would be the next releases that Apple would plan for this year. It specifically mentions new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max chip. They would arrive between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023.
According to the renowned journalist, no other changes are expected other than in the processor for the new laptops, compared to those of 2021. And he confirmed that the new versions of the Mac Pro and Mac mini are in the testing stage at Apple facilities, with a view to its presentation in the coming months.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that there would already be details of the next members of the Apple Silicon family. In the case of the M2 Max chip, it would include 12 processing cores and 38 graphics cores; while The development of the M3 processor for future iMac models would already be advancing. About the M2 Pro and M2 Ultra, for now there is no news.