Apple announces MacBook Air with M4 chip and a price cut

It whitethorn look similar metallic successful immoderate cool-toned lighting, but it’s really entity blue.

Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a caller entity bluish colour option, and — astir astonishing of each — a little price. The 13-inch starts astatine $999, portion the 15-inch begins astatine $1,199. They’re disposable to bid present and motorboat connected March 12th.

Both 13- and 15-inch models of the MacBook Air volition vessel with the newer chips, aligning them with the caller Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro and adding enactment for 2 outer displays with the lid inactive open. The plan is the same, though Apple added the 12-megapixel Center Stage webcam that’s disposable connected the existent MacBook Pros.

The entry-level exemplary has an M4 spot with a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU, 16GB of unified memory, and 256GB of storage. It tin beryllium further configured with a 10-core GPU (matching the basal 14-inch MacBook Pro) with 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage.

I concisely played with the caller M4 Airs but haven’t tested them yet. It’s… inactive a MacBook Air. Just with a much almighty chip. The entity bluish colour is pleasant, but I deliberation Apple could person more amusive with its hues similar it does connected the iMac. (Where’s the bondi blue, Apple?)

The M4 upgrade and the Center Stage camera are measured, expected upgrades that I’ll trial successful my afloat review. It doesn’t look similar a large upgrade, but the terms driblet is impressive, particularly against increasing tariffs.