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Apple's 2025 M4 MacBook Air: What to Expect
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I know you jokingly mean literally zero, but according to Intel's roadmap, we're going to be below 1 nm sooner than you think. We've seen more advancements with chip technology in the last few years than we have in the last decade. It's a cool time, honestly.
Sweet Jesus the AI hype train is getting ridiculous now. Every single company in existence is cramming it into their products, whether they need it or not. I wouldn't be surprised if I start seeing A.I cereal boxes on the shelves in supermarkets soon.I’m hoping that the AI hype train will derail in a gigantic cloud of smoke. The article is like “who needs a bump in speed or innovation if you have AI?”.
So I'm not sure how accurate activity monitor is but when I briefly tried out a 16GB m3 machine, after opening a few tabs and your typical office based applications, word, excel, zoom etc, maybe a bit of music playing in the background aswell, it was showing a total usage of 15GB.
Seems quite a lot for tasks that I would consider to be pretty basic. In this instance, maybe 24GB isnt such a bad idea?
Just checked my old 2012MBP with 8GB: with numbers, safari, mail, telegram, iTunes etc it's under 5GB used. The OS will fill always the RAM as much as it can.
It's gone well past ridiculous. It's gone the plaid.
I do think that Apple will finally put in a better SoC cooling system on the M4 MacBook Air models.
What I'm hoping for:
- 12-inch retina display with NO notch, just bezels like before
- least 32 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, nothing less
- affordable price under $1000
- HDMI port
What I'm expecting:
- odd sized screen with odd resolution and of course the notch
- only 8 GB RAM as usual
- price way over $1000+
- no HDMI port
- 12-inch retina display with NO notch, just bezels like before
- least 32 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, nothing less
- affordable price under $1000
- HDMI port
What I'm expecting:
- odd sized screen with odd resolution and of course the notch
- only 8 GB RAM as usual
- price way over $1000+
- no HDMI port
I bet 8GB. AI will run on devices with 8GB. They just switched to 8GB iPhones last year And only for thr pro models. Long time till we see 12GB I would say.
Came here just to say that the only thing I'm wanting out of a new MBA gen is a 12" model. Still rocking my 2017 Macbook, and I think that there would still be a healthy market for a 12" model, and I'm also a firm believer that the discontinued model didn't ever get a fair chance (bad marketing, poor product placement in a confusing lineup, more expensive than the MBA, poor keyboard, single port...). The poor thing was kicked off the plank with its hands tied and expected to swim.
I don't expect a revisited 12" to ever be back to 0.92kg, but I'd love to see a 1.1kg model, which I think would certainly be doable.
I'd also love the base model to be 16GB / 512GB, but it's Apple, so that ain't happening. I'd love it though if Apple only charged $100 for the initial 8GB -> 16GB RAM and 256GB ->512GB SSD upgrades, and I think that a lot more people would bump up their MBA if they did that. And then the next $200 bump would be more fitting, since people would be getting double the original upgrade with that.
I really hate the redesign that came with M2. I bought M1 and I won't replace it until Apple get rid of the notch.
I'd really like them to move one USB port to the right side, like Dell XPS has. This would allow me to connect charger from right side while on the couch. Also more flexible on the desk for accessories placed on my right hand side.
That, and steer clear of PWM-laden OLED screens please. But yeah, that Dell XPS 2-in-1 (9310) has way better LCD screen than my M2 Air - better blacks, wider color gamut. Please "steal".
That, and steer clear of PWM-laden OLED screens please. But yeah, that Dell XPS 2-in-1 (9310) has way better LCD screen than my M2 Air - better blacks, wider color gamut. Please "steal".
Sounds like planned expiration, with every major solar flare / lightning strike.
Well a MacBook Pro can be good BUT I think performances are similar between the MacBook Air and the base model of the MacBook Pro since they are sharing the same chip… Then someone might want to have a little more of performances so he chooses the MacBook Air with 24gb of ram… otherwise he would need to pay for the MacBook Pro with a pro Chip and that VERY EXPENSIVE! So maybe that’s why a person could choose the 24gb of ram (actually I am considering the upcoming m4 MacBook Air with 24gb of ram)
Another reason could be that the user is going to keep his Mac for a long time… Extra ram can’t be bad because every year, programs are taking more ram (even macOS) A good example is Final Cut Pro, before 4gb of ram was the minimum and 8gb recommend but now 8gb is the minimum and 16gb the recommended… https://www.apple.com/ca/final-cut-pro/specs/ When 8gb Macs are going to get dropped, I guess 16gb will be the minimum and 24gb recommended…
Little extra : By getting the 24gb model, you also get a 10 cores GPU (compared to 8)
It doesn’t seams it will support 3 displays while the lid is closed (MacBook pro doesn’t seams to have this) But we might have on this new MacBook Air according to m4 Macs :
- M4 chip (🚨 8 cores CPU is possible because the m4 iMac has 8 cores CPU and an optional 10 Cores CPU model, since the MacBook Air is cheaper than the iMac, we can get 8 cores CPU on the base model… For some who doesn’t know, more CPU there is, more the Mac is faster so the base model might be slower than the MacBook Pro… Something that can save us, is that the Mac mini has 10 cores CPU !!)
- 20h battery (The m4 MacBook Pro got a +2h of battery with the m4 chip, the base MacBook Pro is now at 24h so we have good chances to have finally a little battery improvement in 4 years!)
- Thunderbolt 4 (good chances to have this, currently the MacBook Air is using thunderbolt 3)
- 12MP camera with center stage and deskview (iMac and MacBook pro got it so why not on the MacBook Air)
- Support for 2 external displays while the lid is open
And that’s for new MacBook Air, we can also get some extra improvements but I wouldn’t think so since it would make the MacBook Air too close from the MacBook Pro (base model) and no one would buy the MacBook Pro m4 (base model)
I would DON’T LIKE a 12 inch display… I could only accept a 13 inch display with no bezels…
Based on how long they've kept their base models with 8GB RAM, it will take a long time... but I totally agree that investing in more RAM is always good, especially if one plans to keep it long term.