According to a address on the Taiwan-based DigiTimes website, Apple will activate aircraft fresh MacBook Air models in backward May, in alertness for a June/July launch.

The address says that the fresh versions of its 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models will affection Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor as able-bodied as Thunderbolt ports. “Main accumulation alternation makers for the fresh models abide about the aforementioned as for the absolute MacBook Air [although] none of the makers accept accepted their accord in authoritative fresh MacBook Airs,” DigiTimes says.

The account from Taiwan ties in with added afresh heard whispers. In February, rumors alike about a brace for the accepted ultra-thin computer, which was alien to the bazaar in 2008. Those letters additionally talked of Sandy Bridge processors. Currently, MacBook Airs use the Intel Core 2 Duo chip. Use of the Sandy Bridge processor would aftereffect in an all-embracing advance in achievement as able-bodied as added able ability consumption.

According to the DigiTimes report, it looks like the fresh MacBook Airs could be accepting Intel’s Thunderbolt abstracts alteration technology too – this doesn’t appear as too abundant of a abruptness as it’s a affection already apparent in Apple’s active MacBook Pros appear in February, as able-bodied as in the fresh band of iMacs which came out beforehand this month. Thunderbolt’s alteration speeds of up to 10 gigabits per additional leave USB 2.0 attractive like a tortoise with a walking stick. It’s alike 12 times quicker than Firewire 800. USB 3.0 hardly comes abutting either, which is bristles times slower than Thunderbolt.

In March it was appear that Apple confused 1.1 actor MacBook Airs in the three months up to the end of aftermost year, authoritative the again anew active MacBook Air band one of the best acknowledged artefact launches in Apple’s history. The ultra-thin laptops are accepted with those who like to biking ablaze – the 11.6-inch archetypal weighs in at aloof 2.3 pounds – although they do abridgement an optical drive.

As is accepted with the Cupertino company, no chat has been accessible on the accuracy of the rumors apropos the MacBook Air refresh.