Apple today announced the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air M3 and the company has also discontinued two previous MacBook models, the 13-inch MacBook Air M1 and 15-inch MacBook Air M2.
The MacBook Air M1 was launched at a base price of Rs 92,900. The base configuration includes an 8-core CPU, an 8-core GPU, 8GB of onboard memory, and 256GB of internal storage.
The 13-inch MacBook Air, launched in November 2020, was the first to feature M1, Apple’s first in-house silicon for Macs. The M1 MacBook Air promises a battery life of up to 18 hours, which Apple says is the “longest ever.” “This is the best battery life ever on a MacBook Air,” he said at the time.
The M1 chip delivers up to 3.5x faster CPU performance than MacBook Air models equipped with 8th Gen Intel processors. The 8-core GPU promised 5x faster graphics performance and the Neural Engine promised 9x faster machine learning workloads.
The 15-inch MacBook Air M3 replaces last year’s 15-inch Air model
Apple will also stop selling the 15-inch MacBook Air M2, which launched last June. The 15-inch model was launched at a price of Rs 134,900. The 15-inch MacBook Air is being replaced by the M3.
Currently, there are three models left in the MacBook Air series: 13-inch MacBook Air M2, 13-inch MacBook Air M3 and 15-inch MacBook Air M3, priced at Rs 99,900, Rs 114,900 and Rs 1, respectively. 34900 or .
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