Apple Launches M3-Based MacBook Air 13 and 15: 3nm CPU for the Masses

Apple has introduced its new generation MacBook Air laptops based on the company’s most-recent M3 system-on-chip (SoC). The new MacBook Air notebooks come in the same sizes as the previous models – 13.6 inches and 15.3 inches – with prices starting from $1,099 and $1,299 respectively. The key improvement in Apple’s 2024 MacBook Air laptops is of course the M3 processor. Apple’s latest mainstream SoC features four high-performance cores operating at up to 4.05 GHz, four energy-efficient cores, a 10 core GPU based on the latest graphics architecture, and a new media engine with hardware-accelerated AV1 decoding. Customers can expect the new MacBook Air to better follow multi-step instructions, produce structured output in formats like JSON, and converse in languages other than English compared to its predecessors. It should also refuse to answer questions less often thanks to a more nuanced understanding of requests. Soon, the models will cite the source of their answers to questions so users can verify them.