NEW YORK (EFE).— Apple announced yesterday that it is updating its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs with a powerful next-generation M3 chip, which will make the laptops “up to 60% faster” than those equipped with the chip. M1.
The company highlighted in a statement that the new MacBook Air – which in the United States They will be released on Friday, March 8— They have a battery life of up to 18 hours, faster Wi-Fi, and support for up to two external displays.
The 13-inch MacBook Air will cost $1,099, while the 15-inch model will sell for $1,299. With the M3 chip, the laptops offer an updated 16-core Neural Engine and accelerators in the CPU and GPU to drive machine learning on the device, which Apple says makes the MacBook Air the world’s consumer laptop for intelligence artificial (AI).
“Leveraging this incredible AI performance, macOS delivers smart features that improve productivity and creativity so users can enable powerful camera features, real-time speech-to-text, translation, text predictions, visual understanding, accessibility and much more,” notes the block company.
The new features come as no surprise, as Apple CEO Tim Cook said just in February that the company is “investing significantly” in generative AI, hinting that the company will soon launch its own version of the technology. which has quickly become popular.
The MacBook Air also has a 1080p FaceTime camera, three microphones and support for spatial audio and Dolby Atmos. Both devices are less than half an inch thick and come with 8GB of RAM.
Apple’s new MacBook Air continues to have as one of its main points an ultra-resistant design in a chassis featuring its aluminum casing. In this case it comes with four colors: midnight, which has an anodized treatment that reduces fingerprints; star white, space gray and silver.
Likewise, it has the already famous Liquid Retina screen that is present in the 13.6 and 15.3-inch options; in both cases, with a maximum brightness of five hundred nits.
According to the manufacturer, it is up to 13 times faster than the fastest MacBook Air with Intel, to which is added the 16-core Neural Engine for everything related to artificial intelligence, this being one of its main claims.
In this sense, those who choose to access video games will be able to choose values such as mesh shading and hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
For the rest, Apple also ensures that the new MacBook Air is capable of reaching 18 hours of autonomy, regarding six hours more than the previous generation with the M2 chip.
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2024-04-05 07:09:41
