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New MacBook Air Coming This Week: What to Expect
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What I need is an M4 MacBook air.
Statistically, I won’t be waiting more than 30-40 years. Not forever.
Agreed. I think the M4 would be worth waiting esp if it ends up coming with the additional USB C port on the right side and center stage camera.
Hoping they announce it tomorrow and its not another long delay.
Gurman will get out of his prediction being wrong somehow if it isnt announced this week... Always entertaining.
Hoping they announce it tomorrow and its not another long delay.
Gurman will get out of his prediction being wrong somehow if it isnt announced this week... Always entertaining.
There is certainly an argument to be made for splitting up announcements to maximize news cycle exposure. Everyone writes about the iPad Air today, then later in the week they write again about the MacBook Air. If you announce both at the same time, you get fewer articles, as many will talk about both.
When you're doing announcements via press releases, easier to split them up than in person events.
When you're doing announcements via press releases, easier to split them up than in person events.
to me this feels like waiting for the ipad pro m4 annoucement, took forever it seems before it finally came out
Around the corner in 5-7 months, like Halloween is around the corner, so not really.
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apparently its coming tomorrow 
www.macrumors.com
Apple Expected to Announce New MacBook Air 'Tomorrow'
Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday teased that there was "something in the air" this week, and it turns out that could be "things" plural....
www.macrumors.com
Only you can decide that based on your wants, financial picture, and requirements. From a pure price/performance perceptive, likely it would not make sense though if you're happy with the M3.
Probably so. The only real change (without knowing the details) is the processor. Which in this case wouldn’t justify the cost. That is assuming workflows you have are not significantly demanding.
Not really. The m4 came out in may. Which means there’s a possibility to see new m5 devices in may or earlier.
Halloween is pretty much in November (last day of October)
The M4 Pro MacBook was released in late October; it was just the iPad in May. I don't think we will see the M5 until the next MBP release, and the M4 release was an anomaly to get the chip line on the newer and cheaper 2ng-gen 3mm fab tech. They said as much when announcing it:
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I don't know but the import tariff is now 20%, they won't absorb that.
They might bet on it not being a permanent thing and that they can negotiate relief from the tariffs as it's not going to bring manufacturing to the US. As they don't know whats happening day to day with this regime they probably have committed to anything yet.
When Brexit happened in the UK and the pound dropped they didn't adjust pricing straight away, they absorbed it for a while and they tend to make changes when a new product launches rather than adjust pricing mid-cycle, so it's probably too late to do anything here but whatever comes next, if it's still in place, will likely be adjusted.
When an M5 is to be released in 3-4 months, yes, it is. This is Apple ensuring they put the M5 in the MBP and iPad Pro 3 months short of a year sooner that the MBA so as to have a reason to upsell those products over the MBA, clearly.
The M5, while not being a generational leap like the M6 might be, is still a more significant jump than the M2 to M4 was.
Rumors suggest we can expect an M5 rollout by the Spring possibly in less than two months.
It gets even weirder than that with the MacBook Pro! If you go for the cheaper 14/32 core M4 Max, the only option is 36GB - you can't even get 48GB! So you can get more RAM with the M4 Pro than the low-end M4 Max. I guess because RAM is built in to the SoC, here it comes down to wanting to limit the number of different SoC part configurations for logistics reasons.