蘋果秋季新品發布會，Macbook Air有望得到更新

Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta will fulfill orders for new "inexpensive notebooks" from Apple in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to DigiTimes, suggesting they could be released in September or October.

The report does not provide additional information about the notebooks, but two reliable sources in Bloomberg News reporter Mark Gurman and TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo both expect Apple to unveil at least one all-new, lower-priced notebook of some kind later this year.

It"s unclear if the new notebook will be branded as a MacBook, MacBook Air, or otherwise. DigiTimes previously reported it will be a 13-inch model with a Retina display, but Gurman and Kuo have yet to support those claims. Gurman expects the notebook to have a starting price of $999 or less in the United States.

The widely rumored notebook could be the first MacBook Air with a Retina display, or it could be added to the MacBook lineup, but 12-inch models currently start at $1,299, so it"s hard to envision where it would slot in at $999.

The current MacBook Air hasn"t seen any substantial updates in over three years. Since that time, Apple has discontinued the 11-inch model, while the processor on the base 13-inch model received a minor bump in clock speed, but it"s still a Broadwell chip from the 2014–2015 timeframe.

12-inch MacBook models were last updated in June 2017 with Intel"s seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors and faster SSDs.

A few weeks ago, Taiwanese publication Economic Daily News said Apple"s new entry-level notebook will be powered by Intel"s eighth-generation Kaby Lake Refresh processors, which would make it significantly faster than the current MacBook Air given its four-year-old architecture.

While the entry-level notebook could be announced with a press release, it certainly appears that Apple has enough in its pipeline for an October event, where it could introduce new MacBooks, iMacs, and a Mac mini, an iPad Pro with Face ID, and perhaps some other surprises, such as a new Apple Pencil.

據DigiTimes報道，台灣製造商Quanga將在2018季度的第四季度從蘋果公司獲得新的「廉價筆記本」，這意味著它們可以在九月或十月發布。

該報告沒有提供有關筆記本的更多信息，但彭博新聞記者古爾曼和TF國際證券分析師明遲闊兩個可靠的消息來源都預計蘋果將在今年晚些時候推出至少一種全新的、價格較低的筆記本。

目前還不清楚新筆記本是否會被稱為MacBook、MacBook Air或其他版本。DigiTimes先前報道，這將是一個13英寸的視網膜顯示模型，但Gurman和Kuo還沒有支持這些要求。Gurman預計筆記本在美國的起始價格為999美元或更少。

廣為傳言的筆記本電腦可能是第一個MacBook Air，帶有視網膜顯示器，或者它可以被添加到MacBook的陣容中，但是12英寸的模型目前以1299美元開始，所以很難想像它會在哪裡插進999美元。

目前的MacBook Air在過去三年沒有看到任何實質性的更新。從那時起，蘋果已經停止了11英寸的模型，而在13英寸的模型上的處理器在時鐘速度上受到了輕微的撞擊，但是它仍然是一個來自2014到2015幀的BuldWelp晶元。

去年2017年6月，英特爾的第七代Kaby Lake處理器和更快的SSD更新了12英寸的MacBook模型。

幾周前，台灣出版的《經濟日報》說，蘋果的新入門級筆記本電腦將由英特爾第八代Kaby Lake刷新處理器供電，這將使其比目前的MacBook Air在其四年的架構中明顯快得多。

雖然入門級筆記本電腦可以發布新聞稿，但它肯定會出現蘋果公司在十月推出的一系列活動，它可以推出新的MacBook、iMac和Mac Mini、iPad Pro和臉部ID，或許還有其他一些驚喜，比如一個新的蘋果鉛筆

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