Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an replace to M4 chips in March, based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. With the slim laptops’ spec bump, the MacBook line’s M4 transition might be full.
Gurman didn’t present timing past that the laptops are coming subsequent month, however as normal earlier than it launches a product, Apple is “making ready its advertising and marketing, gross sales and retail groups for the debut” and letting its retail inventory of the laptops filter out. Each the 13-inch and 15-inch fashions are anticipated to come back on the similar time, like final yr.
For the reason that Apple Silicon transition, the MacBook Airs have largely shared specs with the low-end MacBook Professional, simply packed right into a slimmer laptop computer with omissions like fewer ports and no cooling fan. The bottom mannequin 14-inch Professional begins with 10-core CPUs and 10-core GPUs and have 16GB of RAM — you will get a way of that configuration’s efficiency from our assessment of the bottom M4 MacBook Professional. Ideally, the brand new Air fashions can even get the Professional’s key improve of with the ability to concurrently join to 2 exterior shows with the lid open.
That leaves solely the Mac Studio and Mac Professional, that are nonetheless M2-generation machines, with out M4 chips. Gurman has pegged the Mac Studio’s M4 bump for “between March and June” and the Mac Professional’s anyplace from June to this fall.