A few days ago, Apple officially released new products for MacBook Air and iPad, and announced that the entire MacBook line will be equipped with M3 chips. This means that the power consumption of the new machine will be further reduced, and the battery life will be extended as a result. According to some sources on the Internet, its battery life may reach 18 hours when fully charged.
The MacBook Air is expected to feature hardware acceleration, mesh shading, and light cone technology, which will further optimize the computer's output in terms of image performance and improve lighting and shadowing. The experience is most obvious in all kinds of games that support high image quality.
Outside of the game, though, this aspect of the upgrade can also be used to facilitate daily work. The dynamic caching feature of the new MacBook Air can fully mobilize the cache to optimize the GPU output efficiency when the computer is running high-configuration software. If it is equipped with side-end AI, it can also accelerate the computing speed of AI.
But I have to complain that at the moment, even mobile phones use 16GB of storage, but MacBook Air is still only 8GB as a laptop. Even if the optimization is good, its upper limit will greatly limit the performance of other hardware. In addition, the MacBook Air itself does not have a fan to assist in heat dissipation, so if it is a production activity with a high performance output, such as editing**, it still can't bring a good experience. Apple's pick-and-search operation is estimated to be difficult for consumers who know a little about it to buy.
However, Apple's own evaluation of the MacBook Air is "the world's best AI-powered consumer laptop". The reason for this is that its M-series chips are able to achieve hardware acceleration through a neural engine. The M3 chip will support more advanced artificial intelligence assistance functions, which can further assist in eliminating data noise.
But in fact, AI's performance requirements in this area have long been realized by other digital devices. Apple's shareholders naturally know about this, so they asked Cook to disclose the progress of AI research and development a while ago. What is Apple's AI research path? I'm afraid we'll have to wait until the next WWDC to find out.