New MacBook: Mystery Apple computer appears in official documents

Filings have since disappeared from the internet

Apple CEO Tim Cook presents new products, including new Macbook laptops, during a special event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Apple's new MacBook Pro might have been revealed in official documents.

The company looks set to update its cheapest model in the pro line – and the update could be about to arrive very soon, according to filings.

The update was apparently revealed in filings from Apple to the Federal Communications Commission. Those documents show a new version of a computer known as A2159, and include a host of details – such as its screen size and power usage – that suggest which computer it applies to.

The model being discussed in the filings appears to the be 13-inch MacBook Pro without Apple's Touch Bar display. At the moment, that is the cheapest of Apple's pro laptops and has gone some time without an update.

Those documents have since disappeared from the public FCC page on which they were found. But before they were removed, visitors snapped all of the information included in them, such as the fact that Apple had sent the filing in February.

The filings did not include any information about what specs the new update could bring, but it will presumably bring it in line with the other models in the MacBook Pro line-up, which have more advanced parts.

The fact that the documents are appearing in public could mean that Apple is nearly ready to release the computer. And, when it does, it might not be alone: Apple has been widely rumoured to updating many of its computers in the coming months.

It is also said to be working on an entirely new 16-inch MacBook, which could appear in September. If it does, it will most likely be announced alongside the latest version of the iPhone, and the other new MacBooks could arrive at the same time.