MacBook Air 2022 launch still on track, but there’s bad news about the MacBook Pro

What we could see, Pro-wise, is a revamped MacBook Pro 13-inch

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Applehas pushed back thenext-gen MacBook Airto later in 2022, and no more high-end MacBook Pro launches are expected until next year – but there will be a Pro 13-inch overhaul, or at least that’s the latest word from the rumor mill.

All this comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a well-known Apple leaker, who broke this latest speculation via hisnewsletter(as flagged up byMacRumors).

Gurman asserts that it was Apple’s original intention to launch the fully redesigned MacBook Air powered by a next-genM2chip at the end of last year, or early in 2022, but obviously that didn’t happen (the refreshed Air was certainly a strong tip forApple’s most recent launch event– but didn’t show up).

Apple hasn’t been able to stick to this original timeframe, apparently, and so is now planning on launching the MacBook Air in the second half of 2022.

As for other MacBooks, we won’t see any new MacBook Pro 14-inch or 16-inch models this year, so Apple will not be debuting anything in that category until 2023, Gurman observes. When those refreshed higher-end MacBook Pro versions do turn up, they will likely sport M2 Pro and M2 Max SoCs.

However, the Apple leaker believes that we could see a revamped MacBook Pro 13-inch – the base model – turn up at some stage this year, and that could sport the M2 chip which is also destined for the next MacBook Air as mentioned.

Analysis: Evidence for the Air is gathering weight

Of course, with the MacBook Air being so strongly rumored in recent times, it’s a good bet that it’s still in the cards to appear from Apple, and the most likely launch slot would be at a big Apple event in the fall. This ties in with another heavyweight Apple leaker, Ming-Chi Kuo,predicting that the redesigned MacBook Aircould hit mass production in Q3 (or maybe late Q2), and so would be launched not too far down the line after that.

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Elsewhere on the grapevine,inside sources who spoke to 9to5Machave theorized that we will see a new MacBook Air and freshMacBook Pro 13-inchlater in 2022, both with M2 chips – echoing the forecast just provided by Gurman.

So, this latest prediction backs up what has been floating around via the rumor mill already, and seemingly underlines the likelihood of seeing at least the new MacBook Air at some point later this year. And of course maybe a Pro 13-inch refresh, as mentioned, on top, which could run with a pretty basic overhaul (just pepping up the processor to an M2 model, and that’s about all).

Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel - ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ - was published by Hachette UK in 2013).

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