Apple reportedly won’t make any big changes to its MacBooks this year

Apple won’t be making any major

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changes to its MacBook range of laptops this year, at least according to the notebook rumor mill – although that doesn’t rule out minor refinements to the machines.

It’s worth stressing from the outset that this is chatter from the supply chain, as highlighted by DigiTimes, and part of a report which observes that Apple is apparently shifting a large amount of MacBook orders to Foxconn (away from Quanta, which currently manufactures the vast majority of the notebooks).

DigiTimes reckons that: “Since Apple has not had a major upgrade to its MacBook product line since the releases of its new MacBook Pro devices at the end of 2016 and has no plan for one in 2018, the US-based vendor is planning to shift orders for models that are already in mass production to Foxconn to save costs and reduce risks.”

Note the crucial snippet that there’s no plan for any ‘major upgrade’ to the MacBook range in 2018.

In other words, all of Apple’s laptops will stay pretty much the same in terms of their chassis and overall design, with nothing big happening, although minor refreshes could well still occur.

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