{"id":1209501,"date":"2023-12-07T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209501"},"modified":"2023-12-07T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T16:57:19","slug":"report-early-2024-will-bring-m3-macbook-airs-and-first-new-ipads-in-over-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209501","title":{"rendered":"Report: Early 2024 will bring M3 MacBook Airs and first new iPads in over a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_1134-800x533-1.jpe\" alt=\"Apple's 15-inch M2 MacBook Air.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1134.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1707\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Apple&#8217;s 15-inch M2 MacBook Air. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The MacBook Air is Apple&#8217;s most popular laptop, and when the Apple M1 and M2 chips landed, they came to the Air first. That changed with <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/10\/everything-to-know-about-apples-new-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max-processors\/\">the M3 chip generation<\/a>, which came to the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/11\/review-apples-16-inch-m3-max-macbook-pro-crams-ultra-level-speed-into-a-laptop\/\">MacBook Pro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/10\/apples-m3-gives-the-new-24-inch-imac-a-big-speed-boost-but-little-else\/\">iMac<\/a> first but left the Air untouched.<\/p>\n<p>That situation should change early next year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-06\/apple-prepares-m3-macbook-air-and-revamped-ipad-pro-for-early-next-year\">a report from Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman<\/a>. Apple is reportedly preparing to launch updates to the MacBook Air, as well as several new iPad models, in &#8220;the March time frame.&#8221; Apple hasn&#8217;t released any new iPads in 2023, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/07\/2022-macbook-air-review-apples-clean-slate\/\">13-inch M2 MacBook Air<\/a> was introduced in July of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Gurman says not to expect design changes from the M3 Air. The M2 version introduced a new non-tapered design with a display notch, a new keyboard, and a MagSafe port, and the M3 Air should look externally identical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989392#p3\">Read 4 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989392&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report: Early 2024 will bring M3 MacBook Airs and first new iPads in over a year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Apple&#8217;s 15-inch M2 MacBook Air. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The MacBook Air is Apple&#8217;s most popular laptop, and when the Apple M1 and M2 chips landed, they came to the Air first. That changed with the M3 chip generation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209501\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1209501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}