AppleInsider Staff
A sketchy rumor on Thursday claims Apple's rumored 12-inch MacBook Air will debut in the middle of 2015, to be available in gold, space gray and silver colors identical to those offered with the iPhone.
Citing a person familiar with Apple's product pipeline, blog A Tech Website claims the company will launch a new 12-inch MacBook Air in a range of colors, adding gold and Space Gray to the current "raw" aluminum MacBook offerings.
The source goes on to say that Apple is aiming for a tentative mid-2015 launch, but cautions that the release timeline has already been pushed back multiple times.
Apple has long been rumored to launch a 12-inch thin-and-light, with noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying in April that the product is on track for a 2014 debut. Subsequent reports out of East Asia pushed back an anticipated launch date into 2015, citing supply constraints of Intel's latest Broadwell class processors.
If Apple were to deliver the supposed device in a variety of colors, it would be an unprecedented departure from all current and past aluminum MacBook models. The company has moved its iPhone product line to a three-color palette, and is rumored to do the same with iPad, which would leave a colorized MacBook noticeably at odds with Apple's laptop aesthetic.
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All of this sounds completely reasonable to me. I would say the gold model would sell very well in China but after seeing the popularity of the gold iPhone last year I will say the [I]haute[/I] crowd everywhere will be interested.
Days are gone when Mac and Mac OS X were humble, minimalist and modest in design.
I don't think these new thin font and transparent frosty window on Mac will grow on me like how iOS 7 did. Mac OS X is much different from iOS.
Days are gone when Mac and Mac OS X were humble, minimalist and modest in design.
I don't think these new thin font and transparent frosty window on Mac will grow on me like how iOS 7 did. Mac OS X is much different from iOS.
What? Yosemite is the most minimalist OSX yet. And what does "humble" mean?
Instead of space grey, why not the delicious glossy black of the Mac Pro?
Oh, save that for the MacBook Pro, perhaps. Remember the very first rumors of colored anodized aluminum? We expected that for the… first unibody, I think it was?
I'm going to put my guess down: If there is a super slim 12" Retina-MBA in post June-2015, I'm going to say that it will be running an A8X, not an intel chip.