Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple Updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chips”.
If you were holding off on updating your 13 or 15in MacBook Air until Apple updated them with its M3 chips, your weight is over. Both sizes can now be ordered with the company’s latest chips introduced in late 2023, when the MacBook Pros and iMac were updated. The M3 chips that are available in the iMac are what’s available here in the airs. The base 13-in M3 air has an 8 core CPU 8 core GPU 8 gigs of memory and a 256 gig SSD for $ 1,099 for $ 1,299. You can bump up to an M3 with a 10 core GPU and double the storage to 512 gigs. Both chip versions have a 16 core neural engine to accelerate Ai and machine learning tasks, and also the 15in air which starts at $ 1,299 only has the more powerful M3.
The designs themselves are unchanged from their M2 versions. The 13in was fully updated in the middle of 2022 and the 15in was introduced in the middle of 2023. The colors are the same as before two midnight: Starlight silver and space gray, and the midnight finish has an anodization seal to reduce fingerprints.
The 1080p FaceTime camera the mag safe 3 charging, the dual USB four ports, magic keyboard with Touch ID and the force touch trackpad they’re, all the same. Also, along with the M3 chips, the biggest new additions are a Wi-Fi upgrade from 6 to 6E and Native support for up to two external displays, with the laptop lead closed and if you’re looking for big differences between the 13 and 15in models, there really aren’t any Aside from the obvious size difference and the base M3 chip on on the 15in having a 10 core GPU, there’s also a speaker difference. The 13-in has a four speaker sound system. While the 15in has a six speaker, sound system with Force cancelling woofers, but that’s pretty much it taking over the new entrylevel spot in the air lineup is the 13in M2 MacBook Air, which means the 2020 M1 MacBook Air is officially done so pour one out for It Apple says the M3 MacBook Air is up to 60 % faster than that M1 model. So maybe it’s for the best that it’s gone, also gone from. The lineup is the 15in M2 air. So you might want to look for deals on those. So what do you think were you hoping for other changes to the line or just excited for the potential performance bump? Let me know in the comments and thanks for watching .
