As rumors proceed to swirl that Apple will lastly announce the oft-rumored 15-inch MacBook Air throughout WWDC23 a brand new report provides additional gasoline to that fireplace.

That report claims that Apple’s suppliers are getting their geese in a row forward of the revealing, ensuring that they’ve sufficient laptops available ought to gross sales figures show constructive.

What number of laptops? “Stockpiling” is the phrase being thrown round, suggesting there are many 15-inch MacBook Airs available. As properly there must be — that is already shaping as much as be one of the best Mac for a complete ton of individuals because of its massive display screen, M2 efficiency, and what’s positive to be spectacular battery life.

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That is all in response to commerce publication DigiTimes (opens in new tab) whose paywalled report was first picked up by MacRumors (opens in new tab).

If Apple’s suppliers actually are stockpiling laptops it might imply that selecting one up will not be all that tough. The report means that Apple itself is not anticipating to promote an enormous variety of 15-inch fashions initially, citing unnamed trade sources.

That is maybe a shock, nevertheless. The 13-inch MacBook Air is already a wonderful laptop computer because of its super-fast M2 chip and beautiful show. However the 15-inch model will take issues up a notch, giving consumers the bigger show that they’d usually have to purchase a 16-inch MacBook Professional to get. Whereas not fairly as large, the 15-inch MacBook Air is extraordinarily prone to value rather a lot much less as properly.

Regardless of earlier rumors that the 15-inch MacBook Air can be the primary to sport Apple’s next-generation M3 silicon, that now would not seem like the case in spite of everything. As an alternative, the M2 is predicted to get one other outing with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of the assumption that variations with differing core counts can be supplied.

[Prediction update and revision]1. The brand new 15″ MacBook mannequin must be named MacBook Air.2. To reiterate, the upcoming 15″ MacBook Air will function the M2 sequence and provide two processor spec choices. Nonetheless, two choices usually tend to be M2 with totally different cores (related… https://t.co/Co4YJhbXO3April 20, 2023

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The 15-inch MacBook Air will not have WWDC all to itself. The rumored Actuality Professional AR/VR headset can be anticipated to be proven for the primary time, making the occasion’s June 5 opening keynote a must-watch for a lot of.

The headset is predicted to be a expensive affair with costs upwards of $3,000 already talked about. It is not prone to ship for months after the announcement anyway, permitting builders time to get their apps prepared for gross sales to start later this yr if the rumors are true.

As for the 15-inch MacBook Air, that is prone to go on sale shortly after the occasion.