“Apple plans to announce new MacBook Air models within the month of June, and begin shipping the notebooks to retailers in August, according to Japanese website Mac Otakara,” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors.
“The conflicting report also claims that Apple will announce a refresh to its entire MacBook Pro series this month, although it did not specify when shipments of those models would begin,” Rossignol reports. “The report, citing ‘a reliable Chinese supplier,”‘ mentions earlier rumors that Apple will discontinue the smaller 11-inch MacBook Air to focus on 13-inch and all-new 15-inch models, although it is unclear if Mac Otakara’s source is independently corroborating them.”
Rossignol reports, “All of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are expected to be equipped with Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports, while USB-A, MagSafe 2, and Thunderbolt 2 ports found on existing models will allegedly be removed.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re going to be face with quite the delicious conundrum over which Mac notebook to put in our backpacks!
RIP Magsafe on future macs…
Why would Apple drop MagSafe when it has been a brilliant design that has saved macs from kids (and grandparents) over the years?
Some one needs to go back and see WHY it was added to portables.
If it is dropped then I would buy a previous generation and hope it lasts as long as the current one.
I honestly don’t get why they’d drop MagSafe. It has been such a great thing to have over these last 10 years. I mean I know that thunderbolt 3/usb c carries full power, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tripped over my power cord and it just magically detached from my notebook.
MagSafe is wonderful and I don’t understand why they’d get rid of it. Maybe at a space thing, like on this new MacBook I have, but I think there is still room for a MagSafe connector in the design.
Maybe you should wait to find out what MagSafe 2 is before you jump to conclusions…
MagSafe 2 already exists…. That’s what’s in current MacBook Pro’s and MacBook Air’s…. I think you mean MagSafe 3
Yep
We pretty much have already seen the future with the Macbook! USB-C and no MagSafe I think it’s a mistake getting rid of it too.
Macbooks these days are so light it’s hard to make magsafe work. Can you imagine magsafe on an ipad? I can’t.
The MacBook Air is on its way out, it won’t be updated.
I agree.
There is no room between the latest MacBook and the coming MacBook Pro. The Air is history.
Well if it isn’t history then one wonders where the hell it would fit in the range. How would it fit beneath the MacBooks which are pretty Spartan as is and yet the only place for an ‘Air’ to be logically, as indeed till relatively recently it naturally sat. The only possible logic now would be for it to become an iOS machine with A class silicon effectively competing with Chromebooks but nothing of that sort has been leaked.
Good riddance. A re-think of Apple’s product map is long overdue. Others here have laid out some awesome ideas that would deliver MacBooks and Macs that would appeal to a wider range of users with fewer SKUs, but Apple instead has spent the last few years pushing out dusty old hardware. When new hardware like the 2015 MacBook does arrive, its hardware & performance is easily outclassed by competitors and it’s missing features that PC and Mac users have and want. That’s why Apple had no choice but to redesign it in less than a year. Meanwhile, the MacBook Pros and desktop product ranges get no love whatsoever.
Apple needs to clean house, and ditching Air models is a great way to start. Apple, turn the MacRumors guide from red to green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Completely agree. “Air” needs to go both in the MacBook and iPad line.
We shall see. Seeing is believing. I hope so- it’s time!
Hopefully they will have more than one USB-C port.
And I sure hope they don’t ditch the SD-Card slot–I use that all the time.
QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is Apple floating the App Store changes and MacBook refresh because they have so much other stuff to share that these details wouldn’t fit inside the 2 hours??
If so, awesome!
Apple’s got everyone guessing about everything again, just the way we like it😆😆😆
I know whatever it is – is already set in stone, but pros are still in need a non-glossy screen. I love my 5-year-old MacBook Pro (with a 1TB SSD upgrade) but I struggle whenever I need to use the glossy screen whenever I’m traveling (just about every day) and need to sit down somewhere where there are windows. (no, not that kind) behind me making it difficult to see the photographs I’m working on.
You know I read on another site that they might not.
Sorry.
Thank God I bought my new MBP before all my USB peripherals would instantly become obsolete!
A MacBook Pro with no ports other than USB-C is about as stupid as I can image. Do not want.