The 2013 13-inch MacBook Air Motherboard, Courtesy iFixit Since we're talking about a ULT part, the PCH moves from the motherboard to the CPU package - creating an emptier motherboard than we've seen in previous years: Making better use of that larger battery is Intel's new Haswell ULT silicon. The battery is higher capacity, with no increase in weight.
Internally, nearly everything has changed. There's a second mic opening on the left side of the machine now, but otherwise you'd be hard pressed to tell this year's model apart from the previous generation. The Haswell ULT shift didn’t require a new chassis for Apple, which meant a less complex development process.įrom the outside, the new MacBook Air looks nearly identical to its predecessor. The Apple/Intel relationship is looking very healthy these days, so it’s also not surprising that it would have supply and early enough access to Haswell ULT to launch the MBAs at WWDC with almost immediate availability. Apple will sell far more MacBook Airs than rMBPs.
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Based on what I saw in Taiwan, and Intel having seeded me an Iris Pro machine the week before, I assumed that the MacBook Pro with Retina Display is what would get the Haswell treatment first. Even the Acer S7 I snagged while in Taipei was still a pre-production unit, with final hardware due out in the next month. With a couple of exceptions however, the bulk of Haswell ULT systems weren’t scheduled to ship until later this year. I spent the week before the show at Computex, talking to PC OEMs, who had all just launched their Haswell ULT based Ultrabooks.
Things didn’t go exactly as I’d expected at WWDC.
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