Apple launched its refreshed 12 inch MacBook today. Many would have been hoping that the company will finally announce a refreshed MacBook Air lineup as well with faster processors and improved battery life but that’s not the case. What the company has done is increase the amount of RAM the 13 inch MacBook Air comes with as standard.
Apple has announced today that the 13 inch MacBook Air is now going to come with 8GB of RAM as standard. Previously, the 13 inch MacBook Air base model used to come with 4GB of RAM so this is certainly a welcome improvement. Customers had to spend an additional $100 if they wanted to bump up the RAM from 4 gigs to 8.
No change is being made for the 11 inch MacBook Air and it will continue to ship with 4GB RAM in its base model. Granted that this isn’t the update that most MacBook Air users had been looking out for, but at least something is better than nothing.
The company hasn’t confirmed as yet if it has any plans of making major changes to the MacBook Air lineup. The design hasn’t been changed since 2010 and it could surely do with faster processors, but none of that has been confirmed by Apple. Some even speculate that perhaps Apple might eliminate the MacBook Air lineup altogether but currently there’s no concrete evidence to support that theory.
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