The macOS 15.2 upgrade that was launched previously today included a handful of brand-new functions, plus something unforeseen: an obviously unintentional referral to the upcoming M4 MacBook Airs. MacRumors reports that the “Mac16,12” and “Mac16,13” design identifiers reference 13- and 15-inch designs of the M4 Air which both are being available in 2025.

That a MacBook Air revitalize is prepared for next year isn’t much of a surprise at this moment– in reporting that practically nailed the information of the very first M4 Macs, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has stated that the Air, the Mac Studio, and the Mac Pro are all slated for updates throughout 2025.

A referral in the present release of macOS might point to a launch faster rather than later on; the M4 Mac mini was referenced in a macOS upgrade in mid-September around a month and a half before it was launched. The M3 Airs came out in March this year, however Apple has actually been understood to put out brand-new Macs as early as January in the last few years.

The M4 isn’t a massive upgrade over the M3– we evaluated its efficiency in the M4 iMac, though a passively cooled MacBook Air variation would likely be a bit slower at much heavier work– however the completely made it possible for variation does feature 2 additional CPU cores and some great quality-of-life updates. Those updates consist of Thunderbolt 5 ports and assistance for an overall of 3 display screens (2 external and the integrated screen), up from an overall of 2 for the M1, M2, and M3 MacBook Airs.

We didn’t get M4 MacBook Airs in November, however Apple did “update” the M2 and M3 variations from 8GB to 16GB of RAM without increasing their costs. The RAM boost will work for all examples, though it might be a precursor of increased memory requirements for upcoming Apple Intelligence functions.