With Apple scheduled to kick off its second special event in the last six weeks on Thursday, Re/code has set some expectations for what not to expect noting that Apple is not expected to introduce a Retina MacBook Air.
Apple may well have a new MacBook Air with Retina Display in the pipeline, but it’s not going to unveil it this week. Sources familiar with Apple’s plans tell me that the company’s latest reimagining of the ultralight laptop won’t be shown off at its Thursday event.
Re/code’s tidbit follows a report last week from The Wall Street Journal which claimed the rumored 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina display won’t enter production until December signaling that it’s debut is slated for sometime in 2015.
Apple last updated its MacBook Air line in late April with a minor processor refresh and price drop.
While a MacBook Air with Retina display may not be in the cards for Apple’s event on Thursday, 9to5Mac has previously reported that Apple will introduce a new line of iMac desktop computers with Retina-class displays marking the first time the super-high resolution screen will be available on Apple’s desktop line.
Aside from Retina iMacs, Apple will introduce a new cycle of iPads featuring Touch ID and Apple Pay for in-app purchases.
Apple will live stream its event on Thursday, October 16th, and 9to5Mac will bring you full coverage of the announces from the event as it unfolds.
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Can’t be released when the Broadwell chips are not available yet. Apple is just waiting on Intel. Just wonder if the constant delays of Broadwell will force Apples hand earlier on releasing Mac’s with ARM chips. For 2 years now I have thought Apple will release a Mac with ARM in 2015.
mmmh… I was looking forward to new MBA’s
I’m looking forward to a refresh – I was going to jump on getting a MacBook Pro but given that I use my iMac for all the heavy lifting then all I really need my laptop for is surfing the net, updating Twitter, WordPress, watching some movies online which means having both an iMac and MacBook Pro is probably a bit of an overkill for what I want to do. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Broadwell but from what I understand the rumour has it that their low power variants are the first that’ll make it out the door which will probably mean MacBook Air will get broadwell but an iMac refresh will get the Haswell refresh along with a 970M/980M GPU from nVidia.
As per rumors, the iMac refresh announced this Thursday will be using AMD GPU’s, not Nvidia. Although, I agree with you, I would love to see the new Nvidia GPU’s. They are kick a**.
Yeah, I saw the rumours about the AMD GPU which makes me wonder whether they’re going to use the AMD Radeon R9 M200 Series GPU’s which will hopefully mean on the 27inch model it’ll come standard with a AMD RADEON R9 M275X and AMD RADEON R9 M290X as BTO. Based on what the notebook check website says it is going to be a step backwards when compared to the current line up which makes me question how valid the rumour is.
any info on MacBook Pro Retina ?
They already had a Hawell refresh this year, so no updates for the retina MacBook Pro this week.
Still hoping for a new Apple TV. It’s been too long.
I really can’t think of so many leaks about any Mac as of the retina 12″ MacBook Air.
I just hope Apple releases updated MacBook Pros in 14″ and 16″ reduce the bevels with rounded glass like the new iPhones and the physical size wouldn’t cary much from the current 13″ and 15″ models.
I just wonder if Apple will keep both the legacy 11″ and 13″ Airs around
Probably for a while just like they did with the non-retina MacBook Pros
I can see them keeping one, but don’t see them keeping both the legacy sizes around. The 15″ MacBook Pro didn’t stick around that long.
Sunrised the non retina 13″ Pro is still being sold. I can see it getting killed after Thursday or after the retina MacBook Air is released early next year.
It’s been too long… 12″ iBook with retina :) PLS!!!
Dammit, there goes the only part of the event I was looking forward to
I hope the rumours are wrong. Ive noticed lots of refurb models at clearance prices in the last few weeks.