There have long been rumors of a replacement for the MacBook Air. This 13-inch machine is likely to adopt the same form-factor as the existing 12-inch MacBook, and will probably drop the Air branding.
A new email received from Apple suggests that the new model will indeed be announced at its event on October 30 …
A K-12 education customer recently placed an order for a MacBook Air, iPad and Apple Pencil. The iPad and Pencil shipped, but the school received an email stating that the MacBook Air is delayed, and will now ship on October 30.
With Apple’s event on the same day expected to include the announcement of an all-new 13-inch MacBook, that seems unlikely to be coincidence. The least-exciting possibility would be a minor spec-bump to the existing Air, but that would be pretty crazy given that the machine is now ancient when viewed alongside the rest of the MacBook line-up, so the smart money is definitely on a new MacBook Air replacement.
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