Apple’s latest, the Sandy Bridge Macbook Air, could be hitting the markets shortly and is slated to fall in line in a much better way compared to other companies’ laptops. Apple is increasing the production of the improved MacBook Air, as it is targeting its launch in the early summer. It will showcase Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processor and ultra-fast Thunderbolt I/O port just like the recently rejuvenated McBook Pro.

Versions 11.6- and 13.3-inch for the Macbook Air are being shipped by Apple’s manufacturing partners this month, which will be most likely available in June or July. With the latest version of MacBook Air launched in October 2010 and this news of iteration, it points towards a fairly short refreshment phase. Considering that the new Air has been moving real fast, this new refreshment can prove to be an instant hit.

As we know, Sandy Bridge is a product of Intel, and is getting quite popular these days. It has even started to pose asa threat to graphics chip makers as it combines a microprocessor and a graphics processor onto a single, silicon chip. Intel’s going after low-end desktops and laptops with Sandy Bridge, with an overarching effort to prove that such a combo chip can actually become a viable reality.

How Sandy Bridge can pose a threat for other chip makers can be seen in the form of Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins comments:

“Intel is close to killing the GPU with their current offerings. The Intel i7 Six-Core processor is at the heart of the machines we’ve designed for our live streaming work on #theCube, and in benchmark tests we’ve done, it has the graphics processing horsepower to handle most off-the-shelf, graphics intensive games with an underpowered dedicated GPU.”

But the launch of Air MacBook news is really an achievement for Apple, which is reeling several other developments too. For example, rumors are swimming around an iPhone 5 launch, as we near the anniversary of iPhone 4 on June 7.  We may also see an upgrade from a 5-megapixel camera to an 8 megapixels. If rumors are to be believed, which show everything from an iPhone with a larger screen to a version for Sprint’s network, it just might. Let’s just wait and watch when the new American toy will come out!