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wood1208 said:

In 2023, 13.6" and 15" MBA will be M3 based and released around the Back to School season, WWDC23.

Exactly.  It seems these leakers are living in fantasy land.   If a 15” is in development it will most likely be released in the fall with the M3 across the full Air lineup.  While Apple has done some short upgrade cycles, it is extremely unlikely they will release an 15” Air to update the 13” Air this fall.  If they did, I would actually suspect Apple moving to more of a 2-year cycle which is closer to when people are willing to upgrade.

Here is my predictions, so we can see how good of guessing I am compared to these leakers.

1. M3 Ultra/Extreme will be released along side the new Mac Pro and AR headset at WWDC.
2. New Airs released with the M3 in the Fall. 

unknownorigin said:

did i miss something? i thought they recently had a ton of layoffs in their “channel retail” sector and i could’ve sworn appleinsider reported on it…

for reference:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/20/layoffs-in-some-of-apples-retail-channels-have-begun

Maybe you missed the first paragraph of your linked article and the reference within this one to Best Buy location non-essential staff receiving 30-day notices?

So yeah looks like you missed something.

9secondkox2 said:

Tomorrow is the press release launch of the M2 based MacBook Pros. 

Nothing crazy, but definitely needed. 

I love how everyone instantly jumps on the MBP 14” and 16” train when it is entirely more likely the Mini and/or iMac will get the current M2 update.  Then they can still show investors they are still releasing products while they can sit on the true MBP update for a little while longer. 

Apple wants $600 to replace the battery in my MBP (late 2016).  There’s no reason why memory and storage can’t be plug and play as it used to be. 

Seems like a made up number as Apple advertises a $199 out of warranty battery replacement for all MBP…

https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service

It is the touchscreen MacOS tablet/laptop we saw in an earlier post with the removable dock like the old Transformer series from Asus.