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Built for Apple Intelligence.
MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop for a reason. Actually, for a lot of reasons. It delivers up to 18 hours of battery life.1 The M4 chip unlocks a whole new level of performance for work and play. Apple Intelligence is built in to help you get things done effortlessly.2 And it now comes in a stunning Sky Blue color. With the perfectly portable MacBook Air, you’ll be ready to take on just about anything, anywhere.
DESIGN
Built to
go places.
Remarkably light and less than half an inch thin, MacBook Air fits easily into your on-the-go lifestyle — and your bag. MacBook Air with M4 is made with over 50 percent recycled materials and has a durable recycled aluminum enclosure.
Two perfectly portable sizes.
The 13‑inch MacBook Air is the ultimate on-the-go laptop, and the 15‑inch model gives you even more space onscreen for multitasking.3
A new color is in the air.
Now with Sky Blue, four beautiful colors will have you on cloud nine. And every MacBook Air comes with a color-matched MagSafe charging cable.
Incredibly light and thin, MacBook Air fits easily in your backpack.
With up to 18 hours of battery life,1 you can get work done anywhere you go.
The impressive display on MacBook Air makes TV, movies, and games look truly striking.
Performance and battery life
M4. The chip that zips.
Up to23xfaster than fastest Intel‑based MacBook Air4
Up to2xfaster than MacBook Air (M1)5
Up to18 hrs_battery life_1
Multitasker. Multifaster. MacBook Air with M4 brings even more speed and fluidity to everything you do, like working between loads of apps and tabs, editing videos, or playing games like Sid Meier’s Civilization® VII. All with a silent, fanless design.
Neural Engine. Blazing fast for AI. Thanks to the faster Neural Engine in the M4 chip, MacBook Air has even more powerful AI capabilities to enhance everything you do. From automatic camera frame centering to AI image upscaling to running the latest large language models, you’ll be more productive and creative than ever.
Live a full battery life. MacBook Air has up to 18 hours of battery life. And it supports fast charge, getting up to 50 percent in around 30 minutes.6 So you can power through anything you’re working on without worrying about your battery.
M4. The chip that zips.
Apple silicon combines a powerful CPU and GPU, memory, and more on a single chip, making all your apps — from Microsoft 365 Copilot to Adobe Creative Cloud — run faster while requiring less power.
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VII
The M4 chip in MacBook Air makes graphics and gaming look better than ever. With second-generation hardware-accelerated ray tracing, you get more realistic images for truly immersive gaming. And Dynamic Caching drives a huge performance boost for pro apps and games. So everything you do feels less like work and more like play.
M4 compared to previous MacBook Air models.
Faster AI photo resolution enhancement7
13‑inch MacBook Air with M4
23 x
13‑inch MacBook Air with M3
13‑inch MacBook Air with M1
13‑inch MacBook Air with quad-core Intel Core i7 (baseline)
Faster spreadsheet calculation performance8
13‑inch MacBook Air with M4
4.7 x
13‑inch MacBook Air with M3
13‑inch MacBook Air with M1
13‑inch MacBook Air with quad-core Intel Core i7 (baseline)
Faster gaming performance9
13‑inch MacBook Air with M4
1.6 x
13‑inch MacBook Air with M3
13‑inch MacBook Air with M1 (baseline)
Faster image filters and effects performance10
13‑inch MacBook Air with M4
3.6 x
13‑inch MacBook Air with M3
13‑inch MacBook Air with M1
13‑inch MacBook Air with quad-core Intel Core i7 (baseline)
Faster scene edit detection performance11
13‑inch MacBook Air with M4
18 x
13‑inch MacBook Air with M3
13‑inch MacBook Air with M1
13‑inch MacBook Air with quad-core Intel Core i7 (baseline)
M4 compared to a PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7.
Faster AI photo resolution enhancement17
6 x
PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 (baseline)
More project builds per charge18
2 x
PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 (baseline)
Faster photo editing performance19
2.2 x
PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 (baseline)
Faster web application responsiveness20
1.6 x
PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 (baseline)
Faster scene edit detection performance21
1.9 x
PC laptop with Intel Core Ultra 7 (baseline)
Apple Intelligence.
Do more. Effort less.
Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that helps you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.2
Create fun, original images based on a description, a concept, or even a person from your Photos library.
With an all-new design, richer language understanding, and expansive product knowledge about your devices, Siri is more helpful than ever. Siri can even tap into ChatGPT to bring additional answers right to you.
Great powers come with great privacy.
Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your Mac through on-device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information.
And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy.
Learn more about Mac + iPhone
If you love iPhone, you’ll love Mac. Mac is designed to be just as easy to learn as iPhone. Whether you’re using iPhone Mirroring to view and control your iPhone from your Mac,22 copying text on your iPhone to paste on your Mac, or locating devices with Find My — when you use Mac with iPhone, they work together like magic.
New to Mac?
With tens of thousands of apps optimized for Apple silicon, all your favorites run lightning fast in macOS, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Workspace with Gemini. And regular, free macOS software updates keep things running smoothly.
Display
Love at every sight.
The Liquid Retina display on MacBook Air supports 1 billion colors and has up to 2x the resolution of comparable PC laptops. Photos and videos pop with rich contrast and sharp detail, and text appears supercrisp.
Camera and audio
When you move, it moves.
Stay in frame during video calls, even as you move around or when more people join your frame.
Share a top-down view of your workspace while staying onscreen — great if you’re tutoring online or showing off your latest project.
Three-mic array.
MacBook Air provides enhanced voice clarity in audio and video calls while minimizing background noise.
Immersive sound system.
The speakers on MacBook Air support Spatial Audio along with Dolby Atmos, so you can enjoy a three-dimensional soundstage for music and movies.
Ports and Connectivity
Become well connected.
MagSafe
Two Thunderbolt
4 ports
The MagSafe charging cable attaches and detaches magnetically, preventing any unintended flights. Two Thunderbolt 4 ports let you connect high-speed accessories and charge your Mac. The headphone jack supports high‑impedance headphones. And Wi‑Fi 6E provides up to 2x faster throughput compared with Wi‑Fi 6.24
Turn MacBook Air into the perfect workspace by connecting up to two external displays. The extra screen space makes working with multiple documents or apps a breeze.
Security
Hold down the fort
with just a finger.
The backlit Magic Keyboard comes with full-height function keys and Touch ID, giving you a fast, easy, and secure way to unlock your Mac, sign in to accounts, and authorize payments for purchases — all at the touch of your finger.
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Designed with the earth in mind.
Recycled materials. A greener supply chain. Responsible packaging. MacBook Air was engineered to be as light on the environment as it is in your hands.
Learn more about Apple and the environment
Which laptop is right for you?
MacBook Air
13” and 15”M4 chip
13.6-inch or 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display27
Apple M4 chip
Apple Intelligence2
16GB to 32GB
unified memory
256GB to
2TB storage28
Up to
18 hours battery life1
Touch ID
MacBook Pro 14” and 16”M5, M4 Pro,
or M4 Max chip
14.2-inch or 16.2-inch
Liquid Retina XDR display27
Apple M5, M4 Pro,
or M4 Max chip
Apple Intelligence2
16GB to 128GB
unified memory
512GB to
8TB storage28
Up to
24 hours battery life29
Touch ID
Apple Trade In
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Just trade in your eligible computer for credit or recycle it for free. It’s good for you and the planet.26
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Education Pricing
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