I'm hopeful future MacBooks will emphasize more function over form. Word on the street (Opens in a new tab) from the well-connected Ming-Chi Kuo suggests Apple will release future MacBooks with keyboards based on a traditional scissor mechanism instead of the butterfly switches. With Ive leaving at the end of this year, Apple's industrial designers can start to undo his extremes. Killing the MacBook is almost a quiet admission that Apple went too far. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.The MacBook was Apple's first laptop to come in gold. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
Those timescales do make us wonder whether we might see M3-based chips rather than the rumored M2, but it's still early days in this cycle of rumors for a machine we didn't know was in the works until early June 2022. If Apple moves forward with the release, it would represent the company's smallest laptop since it discontinued the 12-inch MacBook in 2019," Gurman said. "Apple has also begun work on a new 12-inch laptop and is considering launching it at the end of 2023 or in early 2024. If Apple does decide to go ahead with the plans as Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sees them, they expect a launch to take place either toward the end of 2023 or the beginning of 2024. An Apple silicon version that isn't hamstrung by poor Intel performance and battery life would be even better. The 12-inch MacBook was often regarded as one of the best Macs for people who needed a Mac, not an iPad, that was perfect for travel. If Apple does go the MacBook Air route, new colors could be offered while a super-thin chassis seems likely, especially if Apple can get away with not putting a fan inside the machine. M2 Macbook Air Open (Image credit: Gerald Lynch / iMore)
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