The MacBook Air “Plus” is approaching, Apple is doing the latest tests. It was already known, but now the time seems to have really come for the 15″ MacBook Air. The machine, which has been talked about since last year, is being tested. This was reported by Mark Gurman of Bloomberg.
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The American journalist, normally very reliable and who cites the developer logs in their applications for the sake of indiscretion, provides a couple of technical details that help to make an identikit of the machine that would arrive in a context in which Apple, hit by a heavy drop of sales, so as to suspend the production of the M2 chips.
Firstly, the screen resolution would be lower than that of higher-end machines, since the 15″ display (but it could also be 15.3″) is the same as that of the MacBook Pro 14″ (3024×1964) , so it would be less defined. Secondly, the processor would apparently be similar (perhaps identical) to the same M2 (not the M2 Pro that Ming Chi Kuo mentioned some time ago) used today by MacBook Airs, therefore an 8 core CPU and a 10 core GPU with 8GB of RAM.
Apple’s idea of producing a 15″ MacBook Air lies in the need to create an intermediate bridge between the 13″ MacBook Air which was created for more consumer and educational use and the 14″ MacBook Pro which is a fully professional machine. The idea is to broaden the market to a niche outside the reference sector of the Airs (web designers or people who use spreadsheets) who require a larger screen without wanting to bear the costs and have an interest in processor power of machines like the 14″ MacBook Pro.
In practical terms we are faced, given the due proportions and scaled the discourse to the context, with the move with which Apple has placed the iPhone 14 Plus, albeit with not entirely satisfactory results, next to the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro: increase and screen size of the basic version of the smartphone to capture a different audience, even without changing the basic technical content.
But when will the MacBook Air 15″ arrive? In the past, predictions pointed to April but today this hypothesis seems excluded. A clue that emerged from Bloomberg, the fact that macOS 14 is present on the machine that Apple is allegedly testing, suggests that it could debut at WWDC in June.
Recall that around the corner as well as the 15″ MacBook Air, there are also other machines. These include the 24″ iMac (which still has the now obsolete M1), the 13″ MacBook Pro and an update of the 13″ MacBook Air.
Since later this year we should see the M3 chip in action, on which Apple relies heavily, these models could come with that processor; in fact, the first basic versions of the processors that ended up on consumer computers like the ones we listed above were released from the foundries that deal with Apple chips.