That's a long period of potentially reduced sales of Apple's most popular laptop for it to live with… Surely this will put some people off the MacBook Air, since we'll know that an M2 version is coming… but reports say that it could be 6-8 months away. This would probably mean that the desktop computers are Mac Minis with the M2 as well, rather than with the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Otherwise, it will be borderline identical. A leaker who proved reliable late last year has told MacRumors that the new laptop will be a MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip, which will feature more power (though still eight processor cores), and up to a 10-core GPU. Update: Well, maybe I'm dead wrong about this. This seems unlikely: again, current leaks suggest that Apple is planning to launch the MacBook Air 2022 with a full redesign later in the year, and I'd expect that to be the first machine we see with the M2 processor, since it's Apple's best-selling computer. There is another possibility, which is that Apple is ready to launch the M2 processor, and the products we're talking about are replacements for the MacBook Air (M1, 2020) and current M1 Mac Mini at the next event. And the Air gets to stay focused on being thin and light. It would also leave a clearer difference between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro from now: the Pro gives you a bigger screen, more ports, and probably a major step up in battery life. That could shave lots off the price, and would mean Apple has totally retired the older design of MacBook Pro. It would probably swap the mini-LED display for a regular IPS edge-lit panel, and would include the regular M1 processor instead of the M1 Pro.
As for the potential laptop, at this point I'm going to guess that it's an entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro designed to replace the current MacBook Pro 13-inch (M1, 2020).
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