Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an refresh to M4 chips in March, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On recentsletter. With the skinny laptops’ spec bump, the MacBook line’s M4 transition will be finish.
Gurman didn’t provide timing beyond that the laptops are coming next month, but as normal before it startes a product, Apple is “preparing its labeleting, sales and retail teams for the debut” and letting its retail stock of the laptops evident out. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch models are anticipateed to come at the same time, appreciate last year.
Since the Apple Silicon transition, the MacBook Airs have hugely splitd specs with the low-finish MacBook Pro, equitable packed into a skinnymer laptop with oomitions appreciate confineeder ports and no celderlying fan. The base model 14-inch Pro begins with 10-core CPUs and 10-core GPUs and feature 16GB of RAM — you can get a sense of that configuration’s carry outance from our evaluate of the base M4 MacBook Pro. Idepartner, the recent Air models will also get the Pro’s key enhance of being able to simultaneously join to two outside disjoins with the lid uncover.
That departs only the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, which are still M2-generation machines, without M4 chips. Gurman has pegged the Mac Studio’s M4 bump for “between March and June” and the Mac Pro’s anywhere from June to this drop.
