Source: Daniel Bader / Android Central
Reports purportedly stemming from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo indicate the analyst has revised predictions regarding Apple’s next MacBook Air.
According to a tweet purportedly sent by Kuo, Apple’s next MacBook Air will actually not include some of the previous upgrades that Kuo and multiple other sources have said it will. From the source:
The new color options are not a surprise, both Kuo and Jon Prosser have reported that Apple will debut a new MacBook Air with color options, and Kuo has further previously stated that the MacBook Air will be redesigned. Other rumored features we’ve heard about include support for MagSafe charging.
However, according to this latest tweet, Kuo claims that the new MacBook Air will not feature either the M2 chip or mini-LED display, despite multiple previous reports to the contrary.
As early as March 2021 Kuo himself reported:
We believe that the MacBook will outperform the iPad in the coming years due to significant improvements in product competitiveness, and expect the new MacBook Air to also use mini LEDs in 2022 to help increase the mini LED adoption rate of the MacBook.
Kuo reported the same forecast in December of 2020 and reiterated it in July 2021. Digitimes has also reported on numerous occasions the next MacBook Air will feature mini-LED.
There have also been other reports that Apple’s next MacBook Air will feature an M2 Apple silicon chip including from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says that Apple is testing a new M2 chip with 8 CPU and 10 GPU cores.
It is worth noting that this latest Kuo insight does not come from his usual verified channel, but from a Twitter account that has not been publicly verified as belonging to the famed analyst. It is however the Twitter account associated with a LinkedIn profile that is believed to belong to Kuo.
