{"id":869,"date":"2025-03-03T03:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-03-03T03:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T03:54:32","slug":"apple-prepares-to-launch-m4-powered-macbook-air-announcement-expected-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/archives\/869","title":{"rendered":"Apple Prepares to Launch M4-Powered MacBook Air, Announcement Expected Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looks like Apple<\/a>\u2019s gearing up to drop a new MacBook Air with the M4 chip<\/strong>, and it could happen as soon as next week<\/strong>. Bloomberg\u2019s reporting that Apple\u2019s got a Mac-related announcement in the works, which pretty much lines up with last year\u2019s M3 MacBook Air launch in early March. So yeah, no surprises there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The M4 chip is obviously the big deal here. Apple\u2019s already rolled it out in the MacBook Pro, and now it\u2019s coming to the Air. From what we\u2019ve seen, the M4 packs 10 CPU cores\u2014a mix of 4 high-performance ones and 6 efficiency cores\u2014plus a 10-core GPU, which should mean a decent graphics boost. Apple\u2019s talking about 1.8x the performance of the M1, and something like 3.4x the speed in heavier tasks, like rendering stuff in Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in theory, this puts the MacBook Air<\/a>\u2019s M4 chip close to the MacBook Pro\u2019s, but let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves. The Air doesn\u2019t have a fan, which means thermal throttling is still gonna be a thing. Benchmarks might look great, but real-world performance under sustained loads? That\u2019s another story. If the M3 Air was anything to go by, expect it to run hot and throttle down when pushed too hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the design, don\u2019t expect much to change. It\u2019ll still come in 13-inch and 15-inch sizes<\/strong>, still look like the M3 version<\/strong>, and maybe\u2014just maybe\u2014Apple throws in a new color<\/strong> or something to shake things up. Pricing? No word yet, but if they don\u2019t bump it up, the base 13-inch model should still start around $1,099<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yeah, not exactly a revolutionary update<\/strong>, but if you were already looking at getting a MacBook Air, might as well wait a few days and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like Apple\u2019s gearing up to drop a new MacBook Air with the M4 chip, and it could happen as soon as next week. Bloomberg\u2019s reporting that Apple\u2019s got a Mac-related announcement in the works, which pretty much lines up with last year\u2019s M3 MacBook Air launch in early March. So yeah, no surprises there. The M4 chip is obviously the big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}