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Apple's last two product events have spent time on the Apple Watch, the Apple TV, the iPad, and the iPhone, but the Mac has been conspicuously absent. Yet there's still work going on behind the scenes, as a tipster pointed out to 9to5Mac. A reference to a refreshed version of the 12-inch MacBook made it into the OS X Server 5.1 update that was released alongside all the other Apple software updates on Monday.
The NetBoot feature in OS X Server lets you offer network-based OS X images to Macs, and administrators can set up filters to let them serve specific images to specific Mac models—the entry for an Early 2016 version of the 12-inch MacBook is present in this filter list, as seen above. Unfortunately, we can't guess much else about the MacBook other than the fact that it exists and probably uses upgraded Skylake Core M chips from Intel. If there have been any external changes (more or different ports, for instance), we won't know about them until the official announcement.
Some rumors suggested that this MacBook could show up at Monday's event, though it ultimately never did. The mention in the OS X Server update may be a leftover from a time when the MacBook was still slated for a March introduction, and it may have survived because it's buried so far down in the software—model filtering is an obscure preference inside NetBoot, which is an obscure feature inside OS X Server, which is itself a relatively obscure piece of software.
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