https://www.cnet.com/news/macbook-air-2018-all-the-rumors-on-specs-price-and-touch-id-possibilities-for-october/

But that may actually be an indicator that the long-rumored inexpensive Mac notebook is just over the horizon. Multiple credible sources have reported that Apple plans to introduce a brand-new, redesigned MacBook Air before the end of 2018.

If true, it will bring to an era of incremental updates for Apple's "budget" laptop -- which today remains more or less the same device Apple introduced in fall of 2010. The current 13-inch MacBook Air, released in August 2017, is nearly identical to its 2015 predecessor save for a microboost in the speed of its antiquated Intel CPU and a belated doubling of RAM. Suffice to say: A major makeover is way overdue. But for now, the same old MacBook Air remains in Apple's lineup with the same old starting price of $999.