New rumors doing the rounds recommend that Apple may launch a brand new 15-inch MacBook Air in 2023. This might both be the perfect choice Apple has ever made – or an enormous mistake.
The rumor comes from a report by Show Provide Chain Consultants (opens in new tab) which means that Apple is engaged on a MacBook Air that has a display screen round 15-inches in dimension, which can launch alongside a “barely bigger” 13-inch MacBook Air.
This isn’t the primary time a 15-inch MacBook Air has been mooted, in fact. As MacRumors factors out (opens in new tab), Apple has apparently been toying with the concept way back to 2008. Nevertheless, to date, the corporate has saved to a 13-inch type issue for its skinny and lightweight laptop computer.
The concept of a 15-inch MacBook Air has definitely excited lots of people. In the mean time, in case you’d like a MacBook with a display screen dimension bigger than 13-inches, you’ll want to purchase a drastically dearer MacBook Professional. Not solely are the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Execs dearer, they provide a stage of efficiency aimed toward professionals, so many individuals wanting a MacBook for extra informal use can be paying for options and specs they merely don’t want.
A 15-inch MacBook Air could possibly be the best resolution, then, providing a extra inexpensive large-screen MacBook with wise specs. If achieved proper, it may very effectively be the perfect laptop computer ever made, just like the 13-inch MacBook Air (M1, 2020) presently is, but when these rumors are true (and that’s an enormous ‘if’) I received’t be shopping for one.
Evaluation: 13-inch for the win
There are many causes to like the MacBook Air (M1, 2020), however chief amongst them is the truth that it’s skinny, gentle and simply moveable. Loads of that is because of the truth that it has a 13-inch display screen, and I’m involved that any MacBook Air that comes with a bigger display screen may lose that portability.
Dell, one among Apple’s nice opponents, has proven with the XPS 15 that it’s attainable to make a skinny, gentle and classy 15-inch laptop computer, however over the numerous years I’ve been reviewing and utilizing laptops, I’ve at all times most popular 13-inch laptops.
For a begin, I usually work whereas commuting on bus and prepare, and a 13-inch laptop computer is far more snug to try this with. My previous work machine was a 15-inch MacBook Professional, nevertheless it was just too massive to make use of on a pull-out tray on a prepare.
Work has since changed the 15-inch MacBook Professional with a 13-inch Floor Laptop computer Go, and whereas on paper that will seem to be a downgrade, I’ve really discovered myself utilizing the Floor Laptop computer Go much more than I ever used the 15-inch MacBook Professional, as a consequence of it being really easy to hold round and use on public transport.
It’s additionally why I fell in love with the MacBook Air, and why I like to recommend it to principally anybody on the lookout for a brand new laptop computer. It’s additionally why I most popular the MacBook Professional 14-inch (2021) to the MacBook Professional 16-inch (2021). Regardless of them basically having the identical specs, the smaller 14-inch mannequin simply felt extra spectacular and extra handy.
So if there’s certainly going to be a 15-inch MacBook Air sooner or later, and even when it’s the perfect laptop computer ever made, I nonetheless in all probability received’t purchase it. However, for these of you who like bigger laptop computer screens, it could possibly be a genius transfer by Apple.
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