Apple will release in 2018 heir to the MacBook Air, significantly reworking its stuffing. This was reported by a Taiwanese publication Economic Daily News.
Laptop get the 13-inch Retina display and the starting price will be below a thousand dollars. It is unclear if he would be in the MacBook or MacBook Air, but in any case it will be more simple and cheap device compared to the MacBook Pro series.
The new laptop will be based on the eighth generation of Intel Core processors with the architecture of the Kaby Lake Refresh that came out about the second half of 2017. The company decided to use a 14-nanometer Kaby Lake Refresh due to regular delays in the transition to Intel 10-nanometer chips Cannon Lake. According to the latest reports, Cannon Lake is not expected until the end of 2019.
The last MacBook Air update happened with the transition to Intel Core i5 and Core i7 fifth generation, released in 2015. Thus, the increase in performance should be significant. Compared with the 12-inch MacBook, the new laptop will also be more productive because it uses standard, not surgeprotection processors.