Apple prepping Air-like 15-inch MacBook

According to One tech site Apple will release a new 15-inch Air-like model which would be part of the MacBook Pro line. Still there are some questions that are not quite clear like whether the new model will be an addition to the MacBook Air series or a new MacBook Pro and when Apple is planing to unveil it.

Presumably, a Mac laptop as thin as the Air will not have an optical drive. That would be in line with the handful of Air-like Ultrabooks now hitting the market.

And it would be interesting if Apple extended Air-like designs all the way to 17 inches. While there are a number of 11- and 13-inch Windows Ultrabook designs on the market, there have been few with 15-inch or 17-inch screens, though Dell tried this once with its Latitude Z. That 0.8-inch thick laptop had a 16-inch screen.