
With a mini-LED display and a new colorful design, it’s possible that Apple starts the new Air at $1,099 or $1,199 and leaves an older M1 model at the $999 tier, much like it did with the 21.5-inch iMac after the 24-inch model arrived. Recent reports suggest it might arrive earlier, possibly at the spring event, but it’s still very unclear.Īs far as the price goes, Apple might start this new MacBook Air a little higher than the current model. A report in September 2021 from Ming-Chi Kuo said the MacBook Air might not arrive until the third quarter of 2022. 2022 MacBook Air: Price and release dateĪfter earlier rumors that suggested the MacBook Air could arrive in late 2021, recent rumors have pushed the release to 2022, including a report from Twitter user also says the new laptop won’t arrive until 2022.
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Apple will likely keep those options at the pro level. We expect the MacBook Air to retain the same 8GB and 16GB memory options even though the MacBook Pro upped the limit to 64GB. A separate report from Ming-Chi Kuo said the MacBook Air will be using “upgraded Apple Silicon,” which likely means an M2 processor. While it was originally assumed that the chip would be the same M1 Pro chip that was launched with the MacBook Pro, a rumor from Twitter user says the MacBook Air might use the next-generation M2 chip instead.

But lets face it - there are a lot more Intel based macs out in the field now than there were Power macs in 2006. So 23 months from the release of the first ARM based mac seems a safe bet. The last OS release that supported the G4 Powerbook was Tiger 10.4.11, released in November of 2007. The graphics cores could increase from seven or eight to nine or ten. The Intel-based Macbook Pro was released in January 2006. July 12, 2018: Order: BTO/CTO: Model: A1706 (EMC 3163) Family: Mid-2017 13' (Touch Bar) ID: MacBookPro14,2: RAM: 8 GB VRAM: N/A: Storage : 256, 512 GB SSD Optical: None Complete MacBook Pro 13-Inch 'Core i5' 3. The new SoC will be faster but still reportedly have eight CPU cores (four performance cores, four efficiency cores) like the M1.

Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that at the end of 2021, we could see a new MacBook Air with a new System on a Chip (SoC) that replaces the M1.
