The 2018 Macbook Air comes with a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-8210Y processor and 16GB of RAM at best. A suspicious new listing on Geekbench 4 details an Apple laptop with the same motherboard as the Macbook Air, but with a faster i7 chipset. Could this have been an early prototype, or is there a better class of affordable MacBook coming soon?
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mysterious-Macbook-Air-like-device-with-i7-processor-shows-up-on-Geekbench.359501.0.html