Sources: thinner and lighter, higher-end 13" MacBook Air with MagSafe charging to launch as soon as this year; redesigned MacBook Pros to get SD card slot back
and kill this feature Samuel Martinez / Pocketnow : Pocketnow Daily: M1X MacBook Leaks: EVERYTHING We Wanted? (video) Julio Cachila / International Business Times : MacBook Pros May See Return Of SD Card Slot In The Near Future: Report Marco Lancaster / Gizchina : MackBook Air 2021 will be thinner, lighter and will have slim bezels Gadget Now : Apple iPhone 12 Mini not selling much compared to iPhone 12 Pro models: Report Nadeem Sarwar / Pocketnow : iPhone 12 Mini sales underwhelm, Pro models get a production boost: Reports Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Reports of Lackluster iPhone 12 Mini Sales Corroborated By Supply Chain Sources Todd Haselton / CNBC : Apple reportedly working on MacBooks with magnetic charging and new designs Chris Smith / BGR : MacBook Air's next big refresh will bring back MagSafe charging Nick Summers / Engadget : Apple's next MacBook Air could be even thinner and lighter Chris Davies / SlashGear : If Apple lets me trash this dongle I'll be overjoyed Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Daily Crunch: Alphabet shuts down Loon Omar Sohail / Wccftech : Weak iPhone 12 mini Sales Forces Apple Supplier to Cut Production Danbo / MACお宝鑑 … : Bloomberg：Apple、 Macラインア ップを刷新 ; し、次期 MacBook Airの … Digital Photography Review : Report: Apple's next-gen MacBook Pros will have SD card readers, MagSafe, no TouchBar and more Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Poll: Do you think the iPhone 12 mini form factor will stick around in the future? Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Apple reportedly has a thinner MacBook Air with MagSafe charging in the works Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Apple reportedly planning redesigned MacBook Air with MagSafe port, new chip Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : New MacBook Air With Thinner Bezels And MagSafe Expected End Of Year Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews : The next MacBook Air M1 update sounds like it'll be worth waiting for Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Apple Planning Major MacBook Air Redesign This Year Jesse Hollington / iDrop News : While iPhone 12 mini Sales Lag, the iPhone 12 Pro Is Eating Huawei's Lunch Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac : Another report claims iPhone 12 Pro is booming, iPhone 12 mini is a bust Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : iPhone 12 mini Not Selling as Strong as Anticipated in the US and Europe Ernie Smith / Debugger : The iPhone 12 Mini Isn't a Top Seller — and That's Just Fine for Apple Samuel Axon / Ars Technica : Report: The MacBook Air is getting a major redesign, too Stephen Warwick / iMore : New MacBook Air may arrive this year, huge MacBook Pro feature returning William Gallagher / AppleInsider : MacBook Pro with SD card slot, no Touch Bar coming in 2021 Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Apple Reportedly Looking to Revive MagSafe Charging in a New MacBook Air Too Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel : Apple is Adding the SD Card Reader Back in Upcoming MacBook Pro: Report GSMArena.com : The next MacBook Air will be thinner and lighter, with smaller bezels too Sanuj Bhatia / iPhone Hacks : 2021 MacBook Pro Could Feature SD Card Slot, No Touch Bar Rich Woods / Neowin : Apple reportedly planning a thinner, redesigned MacBook Air Kunal Khullar / XDA Developers : Apple working on thinner, more powerful MacBook Air alongside new MacBook Pro with SD card slot Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : The next MacBook Pro may bring back an SD card slot to appease Apple's pro user base Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Apple Preps Thinner MacBook Air With MagSafe (Report) Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Apple might bring back MagSafe to MacBook Air, too Brandon Hill / HotHardware.com News : Apple's MacBook Air Redesign Coming In Late 2021 With MagSafe, 5G Wireless Is On Roadmap Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Apple's next MacBook Air said to be thinner and lighter with MagSafe charging Dan Grabham / Pocket-lint : MacBook Air to get thinner and lighter with iPhone 12-style MagSafe charging Darragh Murphy / Laptop Mag : New MacBook Air 2021 in the works— and it could come with these killer features Roman Loyola / Macworld : The next MacBook Air could get even lighter and thinner and bring back MagSafe Raymond Wong / Input : Apple is designing with logic again Pradeep / MSPoweruser : Report: Apple is working on a new thinner and lighter MacBook Air Eli Blumenthal / CNET : Apple rumored to be prepping new MacBook Air with MagSafe magnetic charging MacDailyNews : Apple preps even thinner, higher-end MacBook Air with MagSafe charger Christian Zibreg / MakeUseOf : The Next MacBook Air Will Be Thinner, Lighter, and Revive MagSafe Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple to Release MacBook Air Featuring MagSafe Charging and New Design Sami / Apple Terminal : Bloomberg: Updated MacBook Air with a thinner, lighter design, smaller bezels, and MagSafe in 2H of 2021 Tweets: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : Apple is planning for the return of the SD card slot in the upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. This is looking like the “fix everything” edition - with MagSafe also returning and the Touch Bar going away. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Ross Rubin / @rossrubin : MagSafe would be nice to get back. I'm kinda over SD in the laptop (even leaving some high-profile phones like Galaxy S21) but I'm not a pro protog. https://twitter.com/... Jenna Ezarik / @jennaezarik : *cries at CFexpress* 🤣 https://twitter.com/... @tailosivetech : Apple why you always gotta make me wanna wait for the next one https://twitter.com/... Anshel Sag / @anshelsag : These users are also looking for free/cheap options and the price of the device matters to them a lot more. I really hope that Apple keeps the iPhone 12 mini around and start offering deals on it next year or the following year. Joanna Stern / @joannastern : And I'm actually past all the SD card stuff and the ports. But MagSafe, no Touchbar AND 14-inch screen. Give me strength. Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq : @saradietschy But this is the MacBook Pro! You think you're some kind of professional that requires ports? Bah! Chris Espinosa / @cdespinosa : @EggFreckles @winocm Your reminder that former generations of Apple laptops had slots for floppy disc drives and CD-ROMs Jeff Johnson / @lapcatsoftware : I would buy an iPhone mini if I had to buy a new iPhone. I'm holding onto my iPhone 7 as long as possible though. @tailosivetech : Man I wonder what intel Mac sales look like right now Anshel Sag / @anshelsag : The real iPhone 12 Mini buyer isn't going to buy it immediately when it's available. They will get it when their old phone no longer works. I like the iPhone 12 Mini and I think it's a great device, but they aren't the same types of users who buy phones when a new model is out. https://twitter.com/... Luke Miani / @lukemiani : If you bought an M1 Mac and you're bummed that a new generation seems to be on the way: I guarantee that whatever the new MBP and MBA look like they'll be priced above the current M1s. If you want an M1 Mac and you want to stick with the prices they are right now just do it @ijustine : I'd have been hyped for an SD card reader in my MacBook for the last 5 years but now that I don't use SD cards anymore..... https://twitter.com/... Janko Roettgers / @jank0 : @LaurenGoode USB C > Magsafe is my hill to die on. Ben / @bencsin : I been saying this: US reviewers demanding smaller phones and flat screens is a North American request. Rest of Asia I've seen, everyone wants the large curvy screens. https://twitter.com/... Casey Neistat / @casey : i loved the smaller size of the iPhone 12 mini but Apple made significant compromises for that size. battery and camera are priorities #1 and #2 on a phone for me (most) and that's were where the sacrifices were. its a lot to ask for a physically smaller device https://twitter.com/... @saradietschy : To everyone who says wHy gO bAcKwArDs. Yal used that as an excuse to take away ports in 2016 and guess what it's 2021 and I still use the sd card slot and USBA in laptops!! (Who knows about USBA but I'll take an sd card slot) Jeremy Cohen / @jerm_cohen : photographers REJOICE 🤝 https://twitter.com/... @dhh : After using the mini, the regular 12 feels grotesque. Not just in size but also in how little that extra size adds for reading/productivity/messaging. Yes, larger screen is nice for videos and photos, but IMO totally not worth the bulk. https://twitter.com/... Glenn Fleishman / @glennf : While I can't justify a new iMac right now, if I woke up tomorrow and Apple announced an M2-based iMac with 32GB of RAM, my wife would probably have to lock me in a cage, a la werewolf on a moonlit night, to keep me from ordering one. Rene Ritchie / @reneritchie : *Cries at the other type of CFExpress* (Yes, Sony uses CFExpress A and Canon uses CFExpress B and the world is terrible and this is why we've always needed dongles and always will.) https://twitter.com/... Sriram Krishnan / @sriramk : Pet theory: with most laptops firmly on tables at home for the foreseeable future, utility/slots/camera lot more important than weight/size. Wouldn't be surprised to see a resurgence in desktop computing. https://twitter.com/... M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : @sriramk Yeah, I've used my iMac more in the past 6 months than I did in the previous 6 years. But flip side could be true too. Once we are out of this, everyone will want the smallest, thinnest laptop to take on the go even more... Glenn Fleishman / @glennf : Here's how fast the M1 is. I needed to use Photoshop on my quadcore 2017 iMac. After two minutes waiting to launch, I force quit it, screen shared to my M1 MBA, launched Photoshop, which, in emulation was running in less than 10 seconds, and just did the work that way. Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Apple prematurely killed FireWire and then briefly brought it back, but is there any precedent for features disappearing for years and then returning? https://twitter.com/... Felicia Day / @feliciaday : ooooo THANK GOD I WAITED TO BUY A LAPTOP GIMMIE DAT 14 INCHER https://twitter.com/... Addie / @eposvox : I was waiting on a gen2 of the M1 MacBook pros before jumping in. This might be it. I was looking forward to the Touch Bar tho https://twitter.com/... Stephen Hall / @hallstephenj : I wrote on @9to5mac that I loved the M1 MacBook Air so much I returned it. This is why. https://twitter.com/... David ‘cyberdunk’ Ruddock / @rdrv3 : well, it was nice knowing my surface laptop 3. https://twitter.com/... Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff : With Ive gone, Apple appears to be loosening some “reduce ports, enhance elegance” rules https://twitter.com/... Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : I'm also curious of how Apple will present the return of the function keys Stepping back from TouchBar means admission of its failure. Like, are they gonna say “we listened and we are bringing back function keys” or are they gonna pretend TouchBar never existed Luke Miani / @lukemiani : This plus the MacBook Pro story from a few days ago is the start of a new design generation. It's finally happening! https://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : “My issue with the Touch Bar in 2021 isn't that it's no longer better than a static row of function keys. It's that Apple shipped the Touch Bar then never touched it again...Touch Bar is considered just OK to lackluster 4 years later because it's bizarrely still a 1.0 product.” Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith : These @markgurman rumors indicate pretty strongly that Apple has finally heard the clarion call from users to ‘let the Mac be the Mac’. These may just be the best-selling MacBook Pros ever made, and w/ Face ID & cellular in the pipeline for later, there's major progress a-comin' @saradietschy : YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!! It only took 5 years but.. THEY LISTENED 😂 https://twitter.com/... Brad Sams / @bdsams : Mark has leaked Apple's entire product roadmap for at least 2021 - maybe we all chip in for some security? https://twitter.com/... Julian Chokkattu / @julianchokkattu : XQD reader, anyone? ...just me? 😩 https://twitter.com/... Hayato Huseman / @hayatohuseman : My 2016 MacBook Pro has been the single biggest source of frustration in my work life and I'm READY for this https://twitter.com/... Evan Edinger / @evanedinger : The lord taketh and the lord giveth back! I sincerely hope this rumour is true! https://twitter.com/... Shihab / @jpeguin : It's 2015 again. Jeremy Clarkson punches a BBC producer, NASA finds flowing water on Mars, and questions about the colour of the dress is the biggest worry on people's minds. https://twitter.com/... Gilly / @gillyberlin : Please don't play with my emotions... https://twitter.com/... Alex Fitzpatrick / @alexjamesfitz : and there was much rejoicing https://twitter.com/... Gary / @every_daydad : I just don't even know what to say. I guess the new videos won't have a dislike section. 🤷♂️ 🤣 https://twitter.com/... Tim Cook Parody / @timothycookothy : We won't fix the price in case you were wondering. https://twitter.com/... Tyler Stalman / @stalman : Now this is a rumour I can get behind https://twitter.com/... @canoopsy : Ok I'm ready https://twitter.com/... Gregory McFadden / @gregorymcfadden : Ok Apple is seriously all but admitting the 2016 era of laptops were a mistake. These sound crazy exciting, and that's not even mentioning the advancements we will see with apple silicon. https://twitter.com/... @thecomputerclan : Apple is reversing everything they did 😂 They really screwed up. It's no mystery why I haven't purchased a MacBook Pro in over 7 years. https://twitter.com/... David Pierce / @pierce : “Spend a decade getting rid of everything people liked, then put it all back at once and make everyone upgrade again” is a straight genius-level product strategy https://twitter.com/... Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler : People power https://twitter.com/... Mark Gurman / @markgurman : New story: Apple is planning n a redesigned, thinner/lighter 13-inch MacBook Air with next-gen M chip, MagSafe, two USB-C ports. Release as early as second half 2021. Apple also considered then scrapped a 15-inch version. That and more: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Joanna Stern / @joannastern : This is the dream, everyone. The dream. https://twitter.com/... Andy Ihnatko / @ihnatko : I took a _lot_ of crap for my takedown of the 2016 MacBook Pro. Just part of the job. But if rumors prevail and the next-gen Pro has an SD slot, loses the touchbar, and (as with the 2020) lacks the garbage .5mm keyboard, I'm going to refer to it as the “Andy Was Right” Edition. https://twitter.com/... Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Addressing the problem that you've created in the first place as the selling point *slow claps* https://twitter.com/...