Apple announces updated MacBook Air with M4 chip and a $100 price cut

Apple today announced an update to the MacBook Air lineup, which includes three changes: an updated chip, a new color, and an upgraded front camera. The MacBook Air models now get Apple's latest M4 chip, which was introduced last year on the iMac and Mac mini. This chip features 10 CPU cores and either 8 or 10 GPU cores depending on the configuration. Apple claims the new chip provides 1.6x faster performance in Excel, 2x faster performance in iMovie, and 2x faster performance in Adobe Photoshop compared to the M1 models. We have already covered the 10-core GPU version of this...

Mar 5, 2025 - 17:12
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Apple announces updated MacBook Air with M4 chip and a $100 price cut

Apple today announced an update to the MacBook Air lineup, which includes three changes: an updated chip, a new color, and an upgraded front camera. The MacBook Air models now get Apple's latest M4 chip, which was introduced last year on the iMac and Mac mini. This chip features 10 CPU cores and either 8 or 10 GPU cores depending on the configuration. Apple claims the new chip provides 1.6x faster performance in Excel, 2x faster performance in iMovie, and 2x faster performance in Adobe Photoshop compared to the M1 models. We have already covered the 10-core GPU version of this...