Apple on Monday announced the new MacBook Air with the M3 chip, taking its incredible combination of power-efficient performance and portability to a new level. With M3, MacBook Air is said to be up to 60 per cent faster than the model with the M1 chip and up to 13 times faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air.
With a faster and more efficient Neural Engine in M3, MacBook Air is one of the best consumer laptop for AI. The 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air both feature a strikingly thin and light design, up to 18 hours of battery life, a Liquid Retina display, and new capabilities, including support for up to two external displays and up to two times faster Wi-Fi than the previous generation. With a durable aluminum unibody enclosure that’s built to last, the new MacBook Air is available in four gorgeous colours: midnight, which features a breakthrough anodisation seal to reduce fingerprints, starlight, space gray and silver. Combined with its good camera, mics, and speakers; MagSafe charging; its silent, fanless design; and macOS, MacBook Air delivers an unrivaled experience.
Apple MacBook Air 13-Inch And 15-Inch Availability And Price
Prospective buyers can order starting today, with availability beginning Friday, March 8.
Customers can order the new MacBook Air with M3 on Apple official online store and in the Apple Store app in 28 countries and regions, including the US. It will begin arriving to customers, and will be in Apple Store locations and Apple Authorised Resellers, starting Friday, March 8.
The 13-inch MacBook Air with M3 starts at $1,099 (US) and $999 (US) for education, and the 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 starts at $1,299 (US) and $1,199 (US) for education. Both are available in midnight, starlight, silver, and space gray. The 13-inch MacBook Air with M2, available in midnight, starlight, silver, and space gray, now starts at $999 (US) and $899 (US) for education.
Built using industry-leading 3-nanometer technology, the M3 chip brings faster performance and more capabilities to MacBook Air. Featuring a powerful 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, and support for up to 24GB of unified memory, the new MacBook Air is up to 60 per cent faster than the model with M1 and up to 13 times faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air. It also features up to 18 hours of battery life, which is up to six hours longer than an Intel-based MacBook Air.
Users will feel the speed of M3 in everything they do, from everyday productivity, to demanding tasks like photo and video editing, and software development, claims Apple. And with the next-generation GPU of M3, the new MacBook Air supports hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, offering more accurate lighting, reflections, and shadows for extremely realistic gaming experiences. It also includes the latest media engine with support for AV1 decode, providing more efficient and higher-quality video experiences from streaming services.
M3 includes a faster and more efficient 16-core Neural Engine, along with accelerators in the CPU and GPU to boost on-device machine learning, making MacBook Air the world’s best consumer laptop for AI. Leveraging this incredible AI performance, macOS delivers intelligent features that enhance productivity and creativity, so users can enable powerful camera features, real-time speech to text, translation, text predictions, visual understanding, accessibility features, and much more.
“MacBook Air is our most popular and loved Mac, with more customers choosing it over any other laptop. And today it gets even better with the M3 chip and new capabilities,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said in a statement.
“From college students pursuing their degrees, to business users who need powerful productivity, or anyone who simply wants the unmatched combination of performance, portability, and industry-leading battery life, all in a fanless design, the new MacBook Air continues to be the world’s best thin and light laptop.”
