The A10 Fusion is looking mighty -- only a matter of time for it to find its way into an updated iPad Air.
I don't buy it. I don't think it will happen this year or even next year.
And even if it did, I wouldn't buy such a machine any time soon.
I already weathered the OS 9 --> OS X transition (with my iBook G3 600, which was dual bootable with Mac OS X 10.1 and Mac OS 9, but shipped with OS 9 as the default), and the PowerPC --> Intel transition, and that's enough for me. I don't want to weather another transition.
At the next transition (if it happens), I will let other people deal with it, and if it is successful, then I'll buy. And by successful I mean MS Office and other 3rd party software have been ported over already.
If anything I would expect to see the MacBook Air just discontinued completely, leaving just the MacBook and MacBook Pro... both still on Intel for the near future.
Heck, I'm awfully tempted to pick up the iPhone 7 in jet black. It looks amazing, and it reminds me of my black iPhone 4 (still my favourite smartphone design). But, I have to keep telling myself that my 6S will probably last me for the next 2-3 years no problem.
The reviewers say the Jet Black looks great... for just a few seconds until it gets covered in fingerprints. And Apple itself in the fine print on their website warns that Jet Black is prone to microabrasions. It has no such warning for any of the other 4 colours.
The number of models could be because we now have Intel vs Qualcomm baseband chips. 9,1 and 9,2 could be Intel and 9,3 and 9,4 could be Qualcomm or vice versa?
Seems like a reasonable guess. Intel is here on Apple smartphones now... not in the SoC but as the modem, but they still need some Qualcomm versions, hence four models.