Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air is now for schools only Otherwise, aside from a RAM bump here and a slight price drop there, the 2017 batch is very similar to the one from 2016, with the same ...

Portability - At 2.3 pounds and less than an inch thick, the 11-inch MacBook Air is a minimalist machine that you can slip into your padfolio, purse, or briefcase and you'll barely notice it.

As Phil Schiller emphasized during the 2016 MacBook Pro launch event, the 13-inch Pros are smaller than the Air. The Air does have a tapered profile, but it's 9 millimeters thicker than the Pro at ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Apple hasn’t changed the MacBook Air design in years, but the company is now tipped ...

In fact, the Retina MacBook Air is only .17 inches wider than the 11-inch Air. That’s not nothing, but it’s much closer to the size of the 11-inch Air than the 13-inch model.

In terms of rough timeframe, the product could be announced at WWDC 2016, around June. The MacBook Air has not seen a significant hardware change since 2010, so a major update is certainly due.