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Plenty of other products expected this spring
Apple tends to launch fresh products in the spring, and with a new MacBook Air already making an appearance this year, the company hasn’t let us down. Alongside that good news, there’s even more that could be on the way.
Over the past few months, speculation mounted that Apple was going to update its MacBook Air line with M3 chips for better performance. That was expected to happen in March, and sure enough, a new M3 MacBook Air was revealed in the first week of the month. Apple says the new laptop’s chip is up to 60% faster than the M1 and 13 times quicker than the best Intel MacBook Air. That’s possibly a little bit of an unfair comparison, but the improvement over the M1 is certainly notable. Apple didn’t say what kind of upgrade you can expect over the M2, but we’ll be reviewing the new MacBook Air next issue – so stay tuned!
Aside from the M3 chip, the new MacBook Air can support up to two external displays (as long as the lid is closed), while it also has Wi-Fi 6E for download speeds up to twice that of the M2 version. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models got the update, so their upgrade cycles should no longer be out of step with each other.
Apple also made the point of saying that the M3 chip makes the MacBook Air the “world’s best consumer laptop for AI”, which the company states is thanks to the chip’s “faster and more efficient 16-core Neural Engine, along with accelerators in the CPU and GPU to boost on-device machine learning.”
More on the way
While a new MacBook Air is the big news, at the time of going to press there were a lot of other Apple products expected to imminently make an appearance.
For instance, the iPad Pro is widely rumoured to get an OLED display any day now, while the iPad Air could get a new 12.9-inch size. Plus, we’ve also heard whispers that we will soon see new versions of the iPad’s Magic Keyboard and Ap
