(Pocket-lint) - The MacBook Air remains 1 of Apple's astir fashionable and iconic products, adjacent much truthful aft it got the M1 spot arsenic portion of a refresh backmost astatine the tail-end of 2020. Since then, though, it's been vigor soundlessness astir the laptop's future.
It's hardly a revolutionary thought to suggest that it'll beryllium getting a caller mentation astatine immoderate constituent moderately soon, though, to support it successful enactment with the remainder of Apple's machines. Now, seasoned expert Ming-Chi Kuo says that the caller mentation volition beryllium entering accumulation successful mid-2022.
Kuo says that helium expects a next-generation MacBook Air to deed the accumulation enactment successful either Q2 oregon Q3 of 2022, and has antecedently acceptable retired an anticipation that it could diagnostic a Mini LED screen, which would beryllium a archetypal for Apple (unless thing other successful its lineup gets it earlier).
This sounds similar much than conscionable the summation of a imaginable M2-generation chip, truthful a redesign is besides connected the cards, but Kuo is of the sentiment that this'll travel a template acceptable retired by the adjacent circular of MacBooks proper, truthful it mightiness not beryllium excessively extremist by the clip it gets unveiled.
Whether this proves to beryllium accurate, of course, is simply a substance of time, arsenic ever with Apple. Since it doesn't thin to similar announcing devices agelong earlier they're really available, you tin astir apt expect to perceive precise small astir the adjacent MacBook Air until sometime successful 2022.
Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 27 September 2021.