Apple unveiled two new fashions of MacBook Air on Monday, March 4. The new 13-inch and 15-inch fashions now come outfitted with Apple’s 3nm M3 chipset. Apart from the processor, there are some minor upgrades in the tech large’s refreshed MacBook Air lineup for 2024. The firm can also be claiming as much as 18 hours of battery life with the upgraded laptops. Notably, final yr, the iPhone maker refreshed the MacBook Pro lineup, bringing the M3 SoC to its flagship-tier laptops.
Apple MacBook Air (2024) value in India, availability
The new 13-inch Apple MacBook Air with the M3 chipset is priced at Rs. 1,14,900 for the vanilla 8GB RAM and 256GB storage variant. The 8GB RAM and 512GB storage variant will price you Rs. 1,34,900 and the 16GB RAM with 512GB inbuilt storage might be bought for Rs. 1,54,900.
Coming to the 15-inch MacBook Air, the 8GB RAM with 256GB storage choice is priced at Rs. 1,34,900. The 8GB RAM with 512GB storage variant might be purchased for Rs. 1,54,900, and the 16GB RAM with 512GB storage variant is out there for Rs. 1,74,900. Both fashions are accessible in midnight, starlight, silver, and area gray color choices.
The new M3-powered MacBook Air fashions can be found to preorder in 28 international locations, together with India. They will go on sale on March 8 through Apple Store and Apple Authorised Resellers.
Apple MacBook Air (2024) specs, options
Both the brand new MacBook Air fashions are powered by the M3 SoC, which additionally powers the MacBook Pro (2023) fashions. Alongside, the laptops additionally include a brand new 16-core Neural Engine, which Apple claims will give its on-device machine studying a lift, making it the “world’s best consumer laptop for AI”. It additionally options an AV1 decode engine for higher-quality video streaming. Apple claims that the brand new chipset makes the M3 fashions 60 % quicker than the M1 laptops, and 13 instances quicker than the quickest Intel-based MacBook Air.
New options on the MacBook Air 2024 fashions embody the help for as much as two exterior shows when the lid is closed, WiFi 6E help, Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum microphone modes, and as much as 18 hours of battery life, claimed the corporate.
The show on each the MacBook Air fashions remains to be the identical Liquid Retina panel with a (2,560 x 1, 664 pixels) decision. It additionally has a peak brightness of 500 nits. The laptops are paired with as much as 16GB of RAM and it’s configurable as much as 24GB of RAM. It additionally will get as much as 512GB of SSD inbuilt storage which is configurable as much as 2TB. The new MacBook Air fashions additionally get a MagSafe 3 charging port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and two Thunderbolt/ USB 4 ports for a number of use circumstances.
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