By Justin Jaffe
Is Apple planning to refresh — or retire — the beloved MacBook Air? We may find out next week.
After years of tiny refinements, we may be less than one week away from our first look at a totally redesigned MacBook Air.
And yet — over the past 48 hours, there’s been no shortage of new stories on the new iPhones and Apple Watches we’re expecting to see at Apple’s big event scheduled for Sept. 12. (Maybe new iPad Pros and other products in Apple’s pipeline, too.) But after a few weeks of persistent leaks, things have now grown eerily quiet on the MacBook Air front. Whether that means we won’t see Mac announcements until October (or beyond) is anyone’s guess.
Whether it shows up on Sept. 12 or not, the rumors suggest that Apple is planning to introduce a brand-new, redesigned MacBook Air sometime before the end of 2018. Yes, the company has made incremental updates to the MacBook Air over the past eight years — but the Air is more or less the same essential device Apple introduced in fall of 2010. The current 13-inch MacBook Air, released in August 2017, is nearly identical to its 2015 predecessor save for a microboost in the speed of its antiquated Intel CPU and a belated doubling of RAM. Suffice to say: A major makeover is way overdue.
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