Apple's suppliers are preparing to deliver new MacBook Air with Retina display in the second quarter. This writes on Thursday the newspaper The Wall Street Journal. According to the resource, selling 12-inch MacBook Air will begin in April of this year.
Announcement Apple-laptop with a radically new design is expected on Monday 9 March.Presentation of the computer is scheduled at the conference «Spring Forward», the company announced in late January .
Presumably, the 12-inch model will combine the performance of the 13-inch version and size 11-inch MacBook Air, which can be taken out of production after the official release of the news. The laptop will be based on 14-nanometer processor generation Intel Broadwell and will be much thinner and lighter than its predecessor, receiving display with higher resolution.
CPU usage with low heat eliminated the active cooling, allowing MacBook Air to be silent.Changes will also touchpad - he loses mechanical keys and get the support of new gestures.
Furthermore, the future 12-inch MacBook Air received the lowest number of ports among all submitted laptops Apple. On his right side will be a standard headphone jack and two microphones, one of which is designed for noise reduction, and on the left - one port USB Type-C. Apple, rumored to abandon the standard ports USB, SD card slot and even Thunderbolt and MagSafe in this new laptop.
It is expected that at a special event on Monday, Apple will introduce a whole new range of MacBook Air.