The M3 has been launched, and the M2 MacBook Air was released in mid-2022, and it has been more than a year now, and the purchase manual in the foreign ** also indicates not to buy, so for those who want to buy a MacBook Air, they will definitely want to know when the M3 MacBook Air will be launchedRecently, there was finally news about this, and Bloomberg said that it will be updated in March 2024, that is, the spring conference.
Previously, it was originally reported that Apple would launch the M3 MacBook Air this year, but with the release of the M3 series of MacBook Pro last month, there is no trace of MacBook Air, it is already certain that there is no chance this year, and the good news does not have to wait too long, Bloomberg Mark Gurman recently mentioned in a report that Apple is currently developing macOS 143 and **Mac, macOS updates are expected to be launched at the end of January to February, **Mac will be shipped around March, it is expected to be the M3 version of MacBook Air, 13-inch and 15-inch will be updated, but the appearance will not change, mainly in hardware upgrades.
Apple has already modified the appearance of the MacBook Air last year, and according to past experience, it will usually continue to be used for several years after the appearance is changed, so there will be no major changes in the next few years, and it should only be a hardware performance upgrade.
Apple's M3 series chips launched last month all use TSMC's 3nm process, according to official data, M3's CPU performance is 21% faster than M2, and GPU is 15% faster, which means that MacBook Air will definitely become stronger after replacing it with M3, but M2 MacBook Air may not feel so obvious when replacing M3, and it is more recommended to replace M1 MacBook Air or users of previous models.
Compared to the M3 MacBook Pro, the M3 MacBook Air is not expected to be equipped with a cooling fan, so the performance must be inferior to the Pro version. In addition to the M3 chip, it can also be expected that the M3 MacBook Air will be equipped with a faster Wi-Fi chip to achieve faster connection speeds.
March 2024 is not surprisingly supposed to refer to the spring presentation, and it makes sense to launch it at this time. In addition to the M3 MacBook Air, Mark Gurman also mentioned that there will also be an iPad Pro and iPad Air. As for the other Mac models, most of them have been updated this year, such as: MacBook Pro and iMac in October, Mac Mini in January, Mac Studio and Mac Pro in June.
Although many Mac models have been updated this year, Apple's latest Q4 2023 financial report shows that Mac sales have declined rapidly, down 34% compared to Q4 in 2022.