Apple’s subsequent MacBook Air may launch subsequent 12 months.
Apple may reveal new MacBook Air fashions, powered by the M3 chipset round March 2024. Here’s what we all know up to now.
Apple final up to date the MacBook Air lineup earlier this 12 months when the corporate launched the MacBook Air 15-inch mannequin powered by the M2 chipset. However, aside from the dimensions distinction, there was nothing new in comparison with the 13.6-inch mannequin. Now that Apple has launched its M3 chipsets and M3-powered MacBook Pro fashions, it is smart for the iPhone maker to launch new M3-powered MacBook Air fashions as effectively.
This is precisely what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has reported. Apple will refresh the MacBook Air lineup in March 2024 and include the M3 chipset. This would lead to a pc that’s a lot sooner than the outgoing M2 MacBook Air fashions in each CPU and GPU efficiency.
It’s additionally price mentioning that Apple launched its new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro fashions in October of this 12 months. These fashions are powered by the identical M3 household of chips. In reality, the bottom mannequin of the 14-inch MacBook Pro is powered by the bottom M3 chip, which can be anticipated to be the SoC powering the brand new MacBook Air fashions.
In addition, Gurman claims that Apple may very well be growing the brand new fashions alongside the macOS 14.3 replace, which can make its solution to supported units early subsequent 12 months between January and February. However, the M3-powered MacBook Air fashions are anticipated to launch round March.
Apple may additionally launch new up to date iPad Air and iPad Pro fashions alongside the MacBook Air, because it has been fairly some time because the model up to date the iPad lineup. In reality, Apple didn’t launch any new iPad in 2023.
With that stated, the launch timeframe may at all times change, and these updates ought to be taken with a grain of salt till Apple formally makes it official.