It looks increasingly likely that Apple is poised to unleash the 15-inch Air at WWDC, but it may miss out on a M3 chip upgrade.
Apple’s MacBook Air 15-inch is looking ever more likely to arrive soon, but it may do so without the much-rumored new M3 chipset.
This fresh leak comes from one of the better known sources for Apple gossip, Mark Gurman, who reports via Bloomberg (opens in new tab) that new Macs are being tested with macOS 14, and that one of those is a device that’s “likely to be the 15-inch MacBook Air”.
However, Gurman goes on to say that the mysterious new machine is equipped with a processor that’s “on par” with the current M2, and that has the same loadout of cores (8 for the CPU and 10 for the GPU). We’re further informed that the M3 SoC will be “coming later”, although not how much later.
There’s better news about the new machine’s possibly display specs, with Gurman claiming that it could run with a display resolution of 3024 x 1964, as seen with the MacBook Pro 14-inch. Bear in mind, though, that with a slightly bigger panel it wouldn’t look quite as sharp (but to be fair, still plenty sharp enough).
