Could Apple launch 15-inch MacBook Air and 14-inch iPad Pro next year?
Apple is planning to expand the product lines using the M2 processor and take advantage of the new operating system to dominate the market.
Accordingly, the company may launch the 15-inch MacBook Air model as early as early next year. This will be the first time in 14 years that the Air line has such a large size.
Apple is using a “homegrown” strategy to compete with two market-leading manufacturers, Lenovo Group Ltd and HP Inc. Better performance and new designs have fueled a resurgence in the Mac line, which accounts for 10% of the Silicon tech giant’s sales.
The abandonment of Intel processors is now bringing success to the “Apple House”. According to the second quarter report, line sales Mac reached $ 10.4 billion, double the figure of $ 5.4 billion in the same period in 2020, the time before Apple switched to using its own proprietary processors.
The 15-inch version is being developed to be larger than the 13.6-inch MacBook Air that Apple just launched at WWDC event 2022 past. The new design of the Air series laptops is square instead of beveled, arguably the biggest overhaul for this model since it was introduced by Steve Jobs in 2008.
Although announced earlier this week, supply chain constraints mean that the 2022 MacBook Air will only reach consumers in July.
In addition, Apple is also starting to research a 12-inch laptop product line and is expected to hit the market in late 2023 or early 2024. If it becomes a reality, this will be its smallest laptop model after dead the 12-inch MacBook line in 2019.
Meanwhile, the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models are expected to ship later this year or early 2023. These products will be equipped with M2 Max processors with 12 CPU cores and up to 38 GPUs compared to the previous year. Standard version 10 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores.
According to 9to5Mac, a 14.1-inch iPad Pro version using Mini LED backlighting and ProMotion display technology is also in development, possibly as early as next year, to take advantage of multitasking capabilities. “closer” to laptops of iOS16 operating system.
Meanwhile, Apple is ready to bring the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro lines to users by the end of this year.
Vinh Ngo (Synthetic)
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