Apple this month will start to mass produce the next generation version of the MacBook Air, according to AppleInsider.
Kuo’s announcement is the latest in a series of rumors pointing to updated notebooks from Apple making an appearance sometime this summer.
Kuo in April told AppleInsider that new MacBook Air models would be coming soon. In May, rumors circulated that the new notebooks would be packing Sandy Bridge processors and the speedy Thunderbolt connections.
AppleInsider points out that Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of worldwide product marketing highlighted the MacBook Air’s success during the company’s WWDC presentation of Mac OS X Lion.
Updated MacBook Airs make a lot of sense after Apple’s announcement of its new iCloud service. The notebook is clearly designed to be portable and in some cases considered an iPad alternative. Some people are saying that pairing the device’s smaller capacity, faster flash storage with iCloud’s wireless data syncing and Lion’s iOS-like features may turn out to be Apple’s next big thing.