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Weekend Apple rumor two-pack: refreshed MacBook Airs and unlikely iPad Pro photos

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Apple news website letemsvetemapplem.eu claims that Apple has a scheduled MacBook Air update for February 24th. The site says that this Air refresh will be minor, so if it is indeed happening, the update will likely focus on processor, storage, and RAM improvements. Of course, this is not the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air with Retina display that we’ve detailed, it’s just a mid-season component refresh. The site agrees with our earlier report that says there is no media event planned for February. Apple has done a few minor MacBook Air updates over the past few years, so this would not be unprecedented

A more unlikely rumor comes from vandaagapple.nl, which is spreading around some likely fake photos of the upcoming iPad Pro. The photos shown above don’t really match up with the previously-leaked, likely more-reliable schematics (see the sides and volume rocker), so these should be taken with a grain of salt. The iPad Pro is expected to hit production in the coming months and launch later this year with an enhanced user-interface.

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  1. The Butcher - 9 years ago

    Reblogged this on pundit from another planet.

  2. Taste_of_Apple - 9 years ago

    Agreed. MacBook Air (minor) update is plausible, but the pictures of iPad Pro are bogus.

  3. Jeffrey Feuerstein - 9 years ago

    This leak came from a dutch site, I’m dutch and it says the photo’s come from someone within Apple claiming to have a working prototype of the bigger iPad. I’m definitely not saying that it’s true, but it could really be a prototype which didn’t make production. However, I personally think it’s fake.

  4. Nick Arnett - 9 years ago

    The second photo shows the Lightning port on the side of the iPad, so unless they’re going to make the iPad pro landscape by default and rotate the apple emblem it doesn’t look legit.

    • rettun1 - 9 years ago

      Maybe for a keyboard dock that needs power. That’s actually be pretty cool, then their parties could make keyboards for it. That being said, I don’t think its real

  5. Adrian Ellis - 9 years ago

    I allways use apple products but I am getting very fed up with the slow turn out of products, with all that cash in the bank they must be able to do better, either ipad pro by june or i will go to samsung.

    • rettun1 - 9 years ago

      If your looking for a company that puts out any and all technology to get to market first, then you might be better off buying Samsung. There’s a reason apple has all that money…

  6. taoprophet420 - 9 years ago

    Don’t see why Apple would do a refresh of both the 11 and 13″ MacBook Air unless there is a problem with the displays or battery life. The Broadwell chips are now available so I don’t see why Apple would release an incremental update unless there is production problems delaying the 12″ to the fall which I very highly doubt.

    I also don’t see Apple keeping both the 11″ and 13″ model for sale or up to date. At least one will be eliminated as soon as the 12″ is released.

  7. christinabates222 - 9 years ago

    I love this! Hopefully it will help speed things up or contribute to a stronger battery life. My MacBook battery improved by about 2 hours using http://www.detoxmymac.org but I don’t understand why this is still such an issue. I think perhaps it’s all the aesthetics like screen resolution that are contributing to poor battery life.

  8. christinabates222 - 9 years ago

    I love this! Hopefully it will help speed things up or contribute to a stronger battery life. My MacBook battery improved by about 2 hours using detoxmymac(DOT)org but I don’t understand why this is still such an issue. I think perhaps it’s all the aesthetics like screen resolution that are contributing to poor battery life.

  9. How much juice can the lightning interface deliver? Enough to displace Magsafe on 65W Macs? A single charging interface across the product line might be nice.

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