13-inch MacBook tipped to finally axe MacBook Air in 2018

The venerable 13-inch MacBook Air could be replaced with a 13-inch MacBook later this year, reports suggest, as Apple retires the aging but affordable notebook. Currently the cheapest model in Apple’s laptop line-up, the MacBook Air is also an outlier in many ways. Lagging behind the 12-inch MacBook and the MacBook Pro, it lacks key features like a Retina display. …