Apple 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Air: Price, Specs, Availability

As the entry-level spot successful the M4 household of Apple silicon (which includes the M4 Pro and M4 Max), the M4 packs a 10-core CPU and a GPU with up to 10 cores. Apple claims this CPU's show is up to doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic the M1 mentation from 2020. All models commencement with 16 GB of RAM with the enactment to upgrade to 32 GB. (Apple doubled the representation connected basal models successful October connected its predecessor arsenic well.) Storage starts astatine 256 GB, and you tin upgrade to 2 terabytes for an further cost.

The M4 is mighty capable to enactment 2 outer displays, similar the M3 version, but you nary longer person to support the laptop's lid closed to bash so. The erstwhile mentation of MacBook Air could lone propulsion truthful galore pixels astatine once, and you would person to support the machine unopen to usage aggregate screens; if you opened it and woke the screen, 1 of the outer displays would spell dark. Now, you'll technically person 3 screens astatine your disposal if you number the 1 connected the MacBook Air.

With the M4, you'll person entree to Apple Intelligence arsenic well. Available with macOS 15.1 and newer, it includes a suite of artificial quality features similar Smart Replies successful Messages, Mail Summaries, Clean Up successful Apple Photos, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, and more.

The outgo of the MacBook Air has besides been reduced to the terms it primitively sold for earlier Apple accrued it with the motorboat of the M2 model. The base 13-inch MacBook Air present starts astatine $999—which is $100 little than its predecessor. The 15-inch version, connected the different hand, starts astatine $1,199.

Studio Stunner

Among Apple's lineup of desktops, the Mac Studio has ever been an perfect desktop for originative professionals who request much powerfulness than what's offered successful the iMac and Mac Mini, but don't privation to driblet an exuberant magnitude of wealth connected a Mac Pro. The latest Mac Studio has been updated with caller chipsets, offering an other boost of power, on with a fewer interior upgrades.

You'll present person the prime betwixt an M4 Max and an all-new M3 Ultra chip. The M4 Max packs an up to 16-core CPU and an up to 40-core GPU. Apple claims it's up to 3.5 times faster than the Mac Studio with M1 Max and a small implicit six times faster than the 27-inch iMac with an Intel chip. The higher-speed spot besides unlocks immoderate further graphics capabilities similar ray tracing, mesh shading, and dynamic caching for graphics-intensive tasks. It comes with 36 GB of unified representation with enactment for up to 128 GB.

The caller M3 Ultra, connected the different hand, is present the astir almighty successful the M-series lineup. Composed of 2 M3 Max chips, its CPU tin big up to 32 cores (with 24 show cores), and its GPU tin beryllium configured up to 80 cores. Apple claims this spot plan is up to 2.5 times faster than the M1 Ultra. As with the M4 Max, it besides offers mesh shading, dynamic caching, and ray tracing for graphics pros. You'll get 96 GB of unified representation with the enactment to upgrade to 512 GB, portion SSD retention tin beryllium accrued to a whopping 16 TB.

Apple kept the aforesaid chassis this clip around. The beforehand is location to 2 USB-C ports and an SD paper slot, portion the backmost has 4 Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI port, 2 USB-A ports, a 10-gigabit Ethernet port, a headphone jack, and a powerfulness outlet, on with a built-in speaker. The lone alteration is that Apple upgraded the USB-C to Thunderbolt 5 for faster information transportation speeds.

The Mac Studio volition commencement astatine $1,999 for the basal exemplary with the M4 Max. The basal exemplary with the M3 Ultra starts astatine $3,999.