Last week, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman said Apple is working on a new 15-inch MacBook Air and a smaller 12-inch MacBook for release sometime in 2023.
Gurman said it was unclear what the naming scheme for the 12-inch MacBook would be, as he wasn’t sure if it would be a low-end MacBook or a higher-end MacBook Pro.
Now, Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants says that he is currently “skeptical” about a new 12-inch MacBook.
“We are skeptical on a 12″ MacBook at this point,” wrote Young, in tweet to his Super Followers today. “Apple’s strategy for notebooks is currently 13″ and larger. Companies in the MacBook Pro display supply chain we talked to are not aware of it.”
Both gentlemen are quite reliable when it comes to predictions for Apple’s future products. It is possible that the new 12-inch MacBook is in the early stages of development, meaning Apple’s supply chain partners have not yet been informed of the new device.
Apple has released 12-inch notebooks in the past. The company debuted an ultra-thin 12-inch MacBook that weighed just two pounds in 2015, but the notebook was discontinued in 2019.
(Via MacRumors)
