Apple simply launched a brand new Mac as we speak, however the rumors by no means cease. This time, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared on Twitter one other prediction, this time concerning the rumored MacBook Air. According to different rumors, Kuo believes that the brand new laptop computer will likely be introduced later this 12 months with a brand new design, however the analyst says that it’ll not have an M2 chip.

Ming-Chi Kuo corroborates earlier rumors concerning the new MacBook Air having an “all-new kind issue design” with extra colour choices. Final 12 months, leaker Jon Prosser revealed renders primarily based on what he noticed of the brand new MacBook Air, and the pictures present flat-edged design that resembles the iPad Professional and iPad Air.

The present MacBook Air is out there in Silver, Area Grey, and Gold colours, so we assume that the following technology may have the identical colours as the newest Apple units, which incorporates Starlight, Midnight, and even Purple – that’s a guess.

However opposite to what some rumors have mentioned, the analyst believes that the brand new MacBook Air will not have a Mini-LED panel. This know-how depends on hundreds of actually small LEDs within the backlight, which ends up in greater distinction ratios and deeper blacks, just like OLED. At this level, solely the newest iPad Professional and MacBook Professional function a Mini-LED show.

One other intriguing argument from Kuo is concerning the chip that can energy the brand new MacBook. Just about each supply that has shared experiences concerning the 2022 MacBook Air has mentioned that it will likely be introduced with the M2 chip, the following technology of Apple’s entry-level chip. Nonetheless, Kuo says that the brand new MacBook Air will nonetheless have an M1 chip.

Extra particularly, Kuo informed 9to5Mac in a non-public dialog that he strongly believes that Apple will use an up to date model of the M1 chip as a substitute of placing M2 on it. In line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has been testing a brand new Apple Silicon chip for Macs with 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores.

Both Ming-Chi Kuo is mistaken about his prediction, or Apple will use a brand new variant of its unique M1 chip that brings a extra highly effective GPU. It’s value noting that the one distinction between the A12X and A12Z chips is the addition of an additional GPU core, so maybe the identical will occur with M1. Kuo believes the M2 chip with extra important upgrades “could not come this 12 months.”

The brand new MacBook Air is anticipated to enter mass manufacturing in late Q2 2022 or Q3 2022.

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