on january 15 2008 steve jobs came out on stage and pulled a legendary product
out of an envelope instantly blowing everyone's mind and changing the laptop
world forever and now almost 14 years later apple's
about to do it again with the new m2 macbook air but this time with white
bezels a white keyboard a flat design and a notch well we've got a lot of
leaks and rumors to unload so let's jump right into it the story of the m2
macbook air leaks started around six months ago from john prosser from front
page tech as you can see right here he revealed exclusive renders of that m2
macbook air just like this you have this flat design looks incredibly clean these
renders look so good but the thing i want you guys to look at
is how thin that design is it is just so incredibly thin you see a usbc port
right there and the entire design is just slightly larger and as we can see
we have off-white bezels and an off-white keyboard but recently we just
got some fresh leaks and they are very controversial and definitely new because
these renders did not show any sort of notch and now this is what the rumors
are pointing us to look at that the same notch that i have right here on this 16
inch macbook pro in white
that just looks so crazy and to me i'm honestly not even sure about if
they're actually gonna do this or not with the m2 macbook air because that
honestly looks kind of bad now this particular leak came from dylan dkt on
twitter as you can see right here here is his twitter page and he's fairly new
but he's actually pretty reliable he gave us a lot of little tidbits on what
we should expect from it but i am kind of worried about a couple of things so
before i break all of this down the first thing i want to mention is the
design before we get into the m2 chip and the whole theory about the notch or
no notch the first detail he mentioned was max safe which we just got on the
new macbook pros so in my opinion it totally makes sense to add the maxsafe
3rd gen connector onto the macbook air as well because this year they made it
super slim compared to what it was like before so it can definitely fit on an
incredibly thin macbook air he also mentioned that it's going to be getting
a 1080p webcam and i don't know if you guys have seen the comparisons between
the old one and the new one but there is definitely a huge difference in terms of
sharpness and it's definitely welcome so i think that apple is for sure adding
that 1080p webcam now interestingly dylan says that we're getting usb type-c
ports which i would expect thunderbolt 4 because that's the latest and best port
but if it's going to be a macbook and maybe it's not tuned for professionals
maybe it won't because if you think about it the old 12 inch macbook from
2017 it only had a single usb c port not thunderbolt so what if apple is actually
going to do that same thing so i'm not exactly sure which way but i really hope
they gave us two thunderbolt 4 ports for the extra connectivity now moving on we
have the 30 watt power adapter which totally makes sense and of course he
says no fans which i totally agree with and if you look at how thin those
renders are from ian's elbow and john prosser i don't think there's any way
you could fit a fan there and since the m1 macbook air is fanless and it
performs incredibly well as we've shown you in all of our reviews i totally
expect apple to not put any sort of fan on that macbook air and then he mentions
the various color options on that new m2 macbook air similar to the imac 24 inch
and i think that is going to be very interesting because it feels like apple
is kind of trying to revolutionize the game by not just sticking to standard
silver space gray or black laptops like we've been having for a long time but
switching it up and giving people colors like the airpods max almost like
somebody can match up their entire ecosystem with their airpods max their
macbook air their ipads having all these colors it's like they're going for that
new consumer level and that is why dylan believes we're getting off-white bezels
with an off-white keyboard since that's what apple did with the 24 inch imac and
it seems to be working because it's selling well and people are loving it
and i think people are also going to love the light colored bezels but now
this brings us into the very controversial bits of info that people
are having a hard time agreeing with for example dylan says that mini led is
likely now that is interesting because as we know the new macbook pros have the
mini led promotion displays and dylan does not believe that the new macbook
air is going to have promotion and i totally agree there is not going to be
120 hertz promotion on the macbook air because that's a lower end cheaper
consumer item compared to the pro macbook pro that deserves promotion
but mini led is still in the air of course there's not going to be any face
id and no sd card because that's a pro feature and of course no hdmi and no
tapered design which dylan mentioned and that makes sense because they're going
all flat with these new macbooks just like they did with this new macbook pro
and as you can see right here john prosser from front page tech actually
updated his renders with ian's elbow and they're showing off the ports that we
should expect and he believes that we are getting two thunderbolt 4 ports on
each side and here you can see that mac save 3 is so thin that it still fits
just fine on the m2 macbook air including the headphone jack just barely
fitting so this gives you a sense of how insanely thin this macbook is going to
be and this is why i believe it's going to disrupt the entire laptop industry
because this is just going to blow people's minds having such a thin device
like an as thin as an ipad pro it's just gonna be crazy but this right here is
what is very controversial look at that notch i've gotta say that's pretty ugly
i'm just having a hard time believing that apple is gonna give a notch to the
macbook air with white bezels because as you can see
i just went into full screen mode and the entire notch on this macbook pro
just disappeared because the notch is black
and the screen is black now imagine if you're on this m2 macbook air and the
rest of that goes black but you literally still see a light colored
notch right there i just can't see it working i just i'm finding it hard to
believe that apple would actually do this now of course one option is just to
cut a line here and then literally display the light colored bezel on the
display to make it seamless and make it look like it's a fully squared display
white colored without the notch but you're gonna be running into issues with
white balance and everything else so i don't think apple is gonna go that route
however we got a bombshell leak from leaks apple pro who says he has an
exclusive leak of the actual cad files for the m2 macbook air and as you can
see here they are everything looks normal you have your headphone jack your
thunderbolt 4 part right there same thing right here than about four max a3
so this looks like it could actually be official cad files but he gave us a very
very interesting tidbit he says that there will not be a notch and based on
his renders and his cad files he was able to create this render right here
and as you can see there is no notch on this m2 macbook air now what really got
me thinking is the original reasoning for the notch for the macbook pro now
apple says they were able to basically thin down the bezels like crazy as you
can see right here incredibly thin bezels by adding that notch in so my
thought is what if apple is not going to give us those crazy thin bezels on the
m2 macbook air and they're going to give us the thicker bezels and basically kind
of force us to spend more money if we want super thin bezels by only going for
the macbook pro so essentially the cheaper m2 macbook air would still stick
to the thick bezels and therefore they would be able to kind of redesign that
camera and stick it up there into the bezel and not have any notch at all and
in my opinion if apple is gonna go for light-colored keyboard and light-colored
bezels this makes the absolute most sense right here but if by any chance we
do get a notch which i honestly don't think we're gonna get i don't think that
it's gonna look this bad because as you can see there's like this dark line
going around this notch to kind of make it more
visible i don't think it's gonna be anything like that i think it's gonna be
more seamless and it's gonna blend better into the wallpaper so it's not
going to look this bad now moving on to the next bit of info that dylan gave us
he says that there's a chance that this laptop might not actually be the macbook
air it could be just straight macbook like we had with the 12-inch macbook
that was totally discontinued and it doesn't exist right now so what if apple
is going to revive the macbook as this new laptop and this might actually make
sense to me because this new potential macbook could totally replace the lower
end 13-inch macbook pro because apple could be basically forcing us to pay 2
000 for the newer more expensive high
performance macbook pro and they could just give us a macbook for the middle
ground in between the macbook air the macbook and the macbook pro so
essentially it's already been in the leaks that the m1 macbook air is gonna
stick around at the same thousand dollar price point for maybe at least another
year and then this thing's going to come in to fill in a gap and that's what i
think is going to happen so i think there is a good chance that apple could
just straight up call it a macbook and now of course everybody's talking about
the m2 macbook air which points to the m2 chip and i know a lot of you guys
have questions about that so let's get right into it and answer them this
brings us to a report from mark german from last year in january saying that
it's going to be getting a next-gen chip so what that means is that you could
basically look at the m1 chip which is an eight core and then basically the
next generation kind of like apple goes from a11 to a12 a13 a14 chip they're
gonna do the same thing with the m1 basically just upgraded with new
technology now what's interesting here is that mark german mentioned that it's
gonna be getting two usbc ports he also did not mention thunderbolt so this
might actually mean that we're only getting usbc for i guess the regular
average consumers and before we jump into the core count mark german actually
mentioned that it's gonna be getting two usbc ports not thunderbolt which is very
interesting and it's gonna be releasing as early as the second half of 2021
which we know is not happening this year it definitely got delayed but he
mentioned that apple considered a 15 inch version of the macbook air but they
completely scrapped it so i know a lot of people are still wondering if we're
getting a 15-inch but it looks like we are not getting it it's still sticking
to 13 inches according to mark germain and as far as the m2 chip dylan jkt also
believes we're getting the m2 within the first half of 2022 and it's gonna debut
with the new colorful macbook now as far as the core counts mark grumman gave us
some info back in may saying that the m2 is gonna have the same eight core cpu so
that's four performance cores and four efficiency cores but in terms of the
graphics it's now going to be basically up to 10 cores for the gpu but you could
get 9 on the base model which he believes it's still going to be binned
so you're going to be able to save some money with the bend 9 core gpu instead
of the full 10. but the big question we have to answer is what is it going to be
based on because a lot of people were thinking it could be based on the three
nanometer technology from tsmc but now it looks like that has been delayed so
digit times has reported that it's going to be based on the four nanometer tech
however they came back with an update saying that the n4p process is actually
tsmc's third major advancement of the five nanometer family so it's not even
going to go down to four nanometers it's going to be sticking to five nanometers
but delivering an 11 performance boost so that is very
interesting because a lot of people thought that four nanometer tech was
ready but it looks like it might not be due to this report now there is actually
a lot to break down here because it's saying it's 11 boost over n5 and only 6
over n4 now what that means is that the original n5 tech is actually the a14
chip and the m1 so the m1 macbook air so it's going to give an 11 boost basically
with the same clock speeds over the m1 but the n4 technology is actually the
second gen 5 nanometer which is the a15 chip so that's very interesting but
what's really going to matter is this right here n4p will deliver a 22
improvement in power efficiency as well as a six percent improvement in
transistor density so basically this is going to mean a lot of things for the
battery life you're going to get much better battery life and it seems like
the whole design is going to run cooler so of course they can make it thinner
without sacrificing heat or anything like that and now the last thing we've
got to discuss is the release date because that's obviously what all of us
want to know and that brings us back to a report from inquo on august 10th and
he was claiming that a new redesigned macbook air with mini led so he believes
it will get mini led and color options is launching in mid
2022 now what mid meant to me was wwdc because that's right in the middle in
june so it seems like that's the perfect event for apple to unveil or reveal this
new macbook air because it's going to be the two-year anniversary ever since
apple basically announced the apple silicon transition now however ming chi
quo recently came out and he now says that it's gonna enter mass production in
the third quarter of 2022 so that basically means that apple is
again delaying it so they're not going to be even beginning the production
until the third quarter so that makes a wwc reveal unlikely so that basically
means that a reveal at wwc is not likely and it's gonna take until october or
november for apple to reveal the new macbook air now in my opinion what this
points to is apple starting a tick tock cycle so for example one year they
reveal the lower end products like the macbook air and then another year they
reveal the higher end products like the macbook pro so that's basically two
years in between the macbook pros releasing and getting updated and that's
why i believe it's gonna be until 2023 until the new macbook pro gets updated
again so it's very interesting that it seems like apple is going this route but
this is definitely going to be exciting but with all that said and out of the
way let me just wrap up exactly what i think this m2 macbook air is going to
look like and be like i feel like the design is going to be exactly like you
see right here just basically identical in terms of the white keyboard just like
we have on the external keyboards with the imacs currently like the 24 inch
imac and i also think that the design from the side is gonna look almost
identical just like this render from ian's elbow and john prosser however it
might be just slightly thicker maybe because it seems like there's just not
enough room here especially with that headphone jack but i guess we will see
and then in my opinion i do not think we're gonna be getting a notch like that
i think apple is just gonna give us thicker bezels and somehow find a way to
bring that webcam a little bit higher so that it basically is going to end up
looking like this except i don't think we're going to have rounded corners on
the bottom maybe only on the top but i guess we will see so with that said
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