Supposedly larger MacBook Air with 15.5-inch display from spring

After the comparatively quiet hardware late autumn at Apple, the rumor mill is increasingly looking towards spring 2023. Now a display analyst has fueled speculation that Apple is planning a larger MacBook Air. This is said to have a display with a screen diagonal of 15.5 inches.

Ross Young has appeared several times with predictions about new Apple products. Based on his 25 years of experience in the display industry, he says he has many contacts with Apple’s suppliers. From there he claims to have learned that the production of a panel for a larger MacBook Air is to start in the first quarter of 2023, which could still be available in the spring.

Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman had already reported on such a larger variant in the summer. In addition to the 13-inch device, the MacBook Air used to have a smaller version with an 11-inch screen. There has not been a 15-inch option so far. According to Gurman, the big device should have appeared first, but was shelved in favor of the well-known size of the bestseller.

In the past few weeks, various services such as Geekbench and Steam have reported a previously unknown model identifier of a Mac called Mac14,6. So far it has been assumed that it could be a new MacBook Pro in 14 or 16 inch format, which is also expected for spring. What does not fit is that the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 that has already been released is internally referred to as Mac14.7. According to previous logic, a MacBook Pro released after that would have had a higher model identification number. But if a larger MacBook Air is behind it, this and the alleged deferral could explain why a new model has an internal number that appears to be in the past.

In any case, the coming year is likely to be the proverbial litmus test for all kinds of speculation about Apple’s products. Because there are also rumors that Apple wants to make a 12-inch MacBook again. An iPad Pro in 14.1-inch format is also on the analysts’ betting slip and the long-speculated mixed reality headset, which was last said to be coming in the second half of the year.



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