A range of products in which Apple used the M4 chip, it will be truly unique. The iPad Pro has it, and recently the MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac miniThe M4 MacBook Air is expected to arrive in the spring, and its successor should be available by mid-year. variaThe Mac Studio and Mac Pro were also supposed to get them (probably at WWDC25). But what should we realistically expect from the upcoming MacBook Air?
It hasn't happened in the last 10 years Apple updated its Macs with one generation of the chip. Variants of the M4 chip could thus receive its entire portfolioBut will the upgrades be about more than just performance and RAM, or what could the M4 MacBook Air bring, which we could expect in the spring of 2025?
16GB of RAM in the base
The MacBook Air is by no means a perfect computer, but there are a few simple upgrades we'd like to see in it. We have already come across RAM. Apple he gave all computers with the M4 chip a 16GB base, and since he surprisingly raised it even in the M2 and M3 generations of the MacBook Air, it is certain that the next generation of computers will receive this amount of basic RAM.
Brighter display
The M4 MacBook Pros get a display with increased brightness up to 1000 nits, up from 600 nits in the M3 models and 500 nits in the M2 models. And since the new M2 iPad Air also got a brightness increase from 500 nits to 600 nits, at least for the 13-inch varianits, we expect that we could move forward in this regard with the planned new product. We do not expect that we will see the parameters of the MacBook Pro, but we could at least move up to 600 nits from the current 500.
camera
Both the M4 iMac and the new MacBook Pros got a new 12MPx Center Stage camera with support for Table View. It is probably quite reasonable to assume that the MacBook Air will also receive this upgrade. They still only have a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, which is fine, but why not have more when we know it's possible.
Keep holding on
Apple for MacBook Airs it gives the following values:
- Up to 18 hours of movie playback in the app Apple TV
- Up to 15 hours of wireless web browsing
But with the M4 MacBook Pro, we got up to 24 hours of video streaming and up to 16 hours of wireless web browsing. Since the new chip is more efficient, it means that we could expect some increase in endurance even in MacBooks Air.