MacBook Air 2022 design looks stunning in new renders

(Image credit: Jon Prosser / RendersByIan)

Update: a new leak has the MacBook Air 2022 tipped to have a notch-free display .

On Friday, a whole host of details about the upcoming 2022 MacBook Air were revealed by Dylandkt — a leaker with an enviable 75% accuracy rating on Appletrack. Crucially, Dylandkt's details corroborated much of what Jon Prosser (Appletrack rating: 74.6%) had revealed five months earlier, complete with the renders nosotros topped the article with.

Now nosotros've gone full circle as Prosser and his artist, RendersByIan, accept updated their original images, taking into account the new details surfaced by Dylandkt.

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This means the images now feature the return of MagSafe, Apple's magnetic charging port.

Not simply practise MagSafe cables adhere in a hugely satisfying manner, but they unclip with a tiny bit of force. That ways your pricey new laptop won't crash to the floor if someone trips on a stray charging cable.

You'll likewise annotation from the above film that RendersByIan has adopted a solid white color behind the keys, mirroring the all-blackness keyboard seen on the 2021 MacBook Pros. The visible metal between each key appears to be a affair of the past.

These renders also show ii Thunderbolt ports and a headphone jack — far fewer ports than the new MacBook Pros, but in line with what the Air has traditionally offered. Dissimilar the MacBook Air with M1, which has both Thunderbolt ports on ane side, these renders testify a Thunderbolt port on opposite sides of the laptop.

And then there'southward a notch.

It's interesting that the new return includes this, every bit it'southward far from guaranteed. Indeed, Dylandkt specifically said that he couldn't confirm "whether it will have a notch" in his original Twitter thread, but nonetheless here'south what it could look similar:

With the presumed white borders, it certainly looks strange, and harder to alloy in with macOS'southward menu bar. Of course, a blackness notch with a white edge would probably wait even stranger, so it will exist interesting to see if Apple tree does double downwardly on the divisive design by including it hither too. Dylandkt did hope a 1080p webcam, simply that doesn't necessarily hateful it uses exactly the same tech as the MacBook Pro, afterward all.

Of course, even notch haters have to acknowledge one matter: its presence points to dramatically thinner bezels, as seen on the 14-inch MacBook Pro unboxing comparing, so there is at least a positive here if Apple does indeed have that design approach.

In any case, in that location'southward some time left before we know for certain. Dylandkt predicts that the new laptop won't arrive until the middle of 2022, with a price that'southward just "slightly" college than the current M1 MacBook Air — which, for reference, starts at $999.

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