“Apple has yet to upgrade any of its MacBook models to Intel’s latest Skylake Core CPUs,” Charles Moore writes for MacPrices. “Several Windows PC laptops are now powered by Skylake silicon, including Microsoft’s new detachable screen Surface Book, but Apple has soldiered on with last year’s Intel Broadwell CPUs, including in the most recently introduced 12-inch MacBook with Retina display. The 15-inch MacBook Pro still is powered by two year old Haswell technology.
“My provisional expectation has been that the MacBooks will get Skylake upgrades sometime in the first half of 2016, but The Motley Fool’s Ashraf Eassa suggests that Apple might at this point skip Skylake-based processors altogether and wait for Intel’s next generation Kaby Lake silicon, the first mobile versions of which his sources suggest will become available late in the second quarter or early third quarter of 2016,” Moore writes. “I think there’s a strong likelihood of a major refresh for the MacBook Pro and possibly even a redesign of the MacBook Air in the first half of 2016 — at least by WWDC in June, and possibly much earlier than that. Eassa is of similar mind, and projects a March announcement of new Skylake-based Pro’s and Airs, which would distract scrutiny and criticism of waiting for the next generation chips for the little MacBook…”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ugh, more waiting to pull the trigger on our new 12-inch MacBooks?! (Pending any possible “redesign of the MacBook Air, of course.)
Good thing our trusty 11-inch MacBook Airs (our favorite Macs ever, no less) are still performing like the absolute champs they are!