Apple is planning to launch a new 15.5-inch MacBook Air in 2023. The device would be intended to coexist with the current 13.6-inch model.
The rumor has been swirling around for months and is now gaining a little more depth: Apple is about to launch a new MacBook Air, larger than the current model. In this case, the information comes to us from analyst Ross Young, who specializes in display issues and is often well informed. The person concerned indicates as it stands that Apple would indeed be preparing a 15.5-inch MacBook Air for the spring of 2023. The person concerned adds that the firm would plan, to do this, to launch the production of screens for this new model from the first quarter of 2023.
Remember that this track and this launch period had already been mentioned by both Ross Young and Bloomberg, last March. Nine months later, they would therefore still hold the road despite certain divergent opinions… like that of Ming-Chi Kuo. Also well informed, the TF International analyst assured that this 15-inch MacBook would arrive later and would not necessarily be attached to the Air range. The reason given was then due to the possibly higher consumption of this large format MacBook, which would prevent it from using the 30 W charger “classicfrom the MacBook Air.
A MacBook Air 15… for real?
This MacBook Air 15, if it were to materialize, would anyway be offered alongside the 13.6-inch M2 model that we know today, underlines 9to5Mac. The idea would thus simply be to offer a larger model to the consumer, and not to replace the current model. This would then be a first for the MacBook Air range, which had indeed been available in two distinct models at its inception: but only in 11 and 13 inches.
For 9to5Mac, the thesis of a MacBook Air 15 makes sense… and for us too. Apple would be right to take advantage of the technological transition (already well under way) towards its Apple Silicon chips, but also of the redesign of its various MacBooks, to introduce new models. It would also be relevant to enrich the Air range, since it has met with great commercial success.
Note that another rumor also persists: this time concerning the later launch of a new 12-inch MacBook. Removed from Apple’s catalog in 2017, this compact and affordable model would return, according to some sources, at the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024 at Apple, presumably with a brand new design.
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