As YouTuber Jon Prosser and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo report, Apple is supposed to be working on a colorful MacBook Air with the upcoming system-on-a-chip Apple Silicon “M2” optically tends in the direction of the new iMac, which is also much thinner and very colorful.
Flatter, angular and colorful
In his YouTube video, Prosser, who is not always accurate, presents the first renderings of a possible new MacBook Air, which were once again created on the basis of supposedly real product images by RendersbyIan to protect the source. Accordingly, the notebook becomes flatter, angular and more colorful.
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Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air (Image: Front Page Tech)
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Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air 
Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air 
Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air 
Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air 
Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air 
Rendering of a possible new MacBook Air After a few days ago the Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told the MacRumors website, which specializes in Apple and Mac, about a “flatter” and “angular” MacBook Air with Mini -LED spoke for 2022, the news magazine Bloomberg joins today with a similar assessment.
Accordingly, the new MacBook Air should be positioned above the current model in the portfolio, offer a more powerful processor and come with two USB 4 ports. MagSafe should also find its way into the stronger MacBook Air, while the SD card reader should be reserved for the new MacBook Pro. In the Bloomberg report, however, a mini LED display for the new MacBook Air is not mentioned.
System-on-a-chip with more GPU cores
The upcoming MacBook Air is to be equipped with the successor to the current M1 processor, although in addition to a really new “M2” it is also the M1 -Refresh (“Staten”) with 9 or 10 GPU cores.
While for the next MacBook Pro a 10-core SoC (“Jade C”) and up to 64 GB of RAM are planned and the Mac Pro workstation, according to the latest rumors, will combine up to 40 ARM cores and up to 2,048 ALUs, the MacBook Air is taking smaller steps.