Apple CEO Tim Cook comments on the firm's status in China to reassure investors. (Photo : Reuters)
Tech giant Apple is poised to once again make some ground breaking release with the upcoming MacBook Air 2016. The company is raising the bar of competition even higher as rumors claim that the laptop will fetch a price tag of just $899.
According to MNR Daily, the MacBook Air 2016 is designed for gamers. The laptop boasts an Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 graphics card which is among the latest and top rated graphics card in the market.
The GeForce GTX 950 graphics card has a featured called GameStream Co-op which allows gamers to load game from the Internet and then streaming it to other gamers essentially turning their computer into a streaming server, according to PC World.
Many tech analysts predicts that the new laptop will be announced in the upcoming Apple event, along with the rumored new iPhone model and iOS 9. Additional specs may include Force Touch, USB Type-C support and Retina display. The laptop may also sport the recently released Skylake-U processor from Intel which will greatly improve the laptop's computing power compared to the currently used Broadwell processors.
The laptop will come in two models depending on its display screen size which are 15-inch and 13-inch. Storage variants may start at 128GB but there are rumors claiming that Apple might also offer a 1TB model. As for the device's memory, Apple might throw in at least 4GB of RAM.
While the new MacBook Air is expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks, it will not hit the market until March 2016. If the rumors are true, the new MacBook will make history as the lowest-priced laptop released by Apple.
