Apple’s revolutionary MacBook release in 2015 has us wondering when the rest of the notebook line is going to receive the same treatment. With a new design, heavily optimized internals, and an odd place smack in the middle of Apple’s laptop offerings, there’s a lot of room for the Air and Pro models to find their own niche.
Unfortunately, Apple is traditionally tight-lipped about upcoming product updates and releases, which makes speculating on rumors a bit more difficult. Still, there are a few certainties based on previous launch experience with Apple, as well as some ideas about the next big move for the brand.
Skylake
If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that Skylake is coming to Cupertino. In fact, the last update to Apple’s laptops should have coincided with the Skylake launch, but a delay on Intel’s end led to a variety of older chips across the line.
It wouldn’t be as much of an issue if the current chips in the MacBooks weren’t so old. The MacBook Pro 13 is powered by a quad-core Broadwell chip that’s nearing a year old at this point, and that’s the newest of the bunch. The reintroduced 2015 MacBook is powered by choice of two Core M chips, both of which come from the end of 2014. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is, ironically, the oldest of all, with a Haswell chip that released in the third quarter of 2014.
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