No, it will have an M4 which supports TB4, only the M4 Pro and above have TB5 support.
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When to Expect New M4 MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro Models
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Considering an M4 Pro Mac Mini but once the RAM is at 48GB and the storage is at 1TB, I'm at a base Mac Studio price.
Might as well wait for Spring and I'll likely get a Max chip at the same price/close enough specs for my waiting
Might as well wait for Spring and I'll likely get a Max chip at the same price/close enough specs for my waiting
Never seen a U-Haul following the hearse. We can not take it with us. If one has the resources, get the top model and be done with upgrades for four years.
Waiting for the Mac Studio and Mac Pro M4 models to arrive. Hopefully they will come sooner rather than later!
I think the M4 MacBook Air will arrive in March 2025. and the M4 Max/Ultra Mac Studio and M4 Max/Ultra Mac Pro arrives in June 2025.
I'm still solid with my M1 MBA @16GB ram. For the last 16 years, at most my upgrade cycle was 2 years. I'm completely comfortable and patiently waiting for the M4 MBA...or maybe longer.
I also beat the hell out of it. Always have 1-3 Adobe apps open, 4 different browser apps, spreadsheets, pages, often iMovie and GarageBand - the only thing that ever bogs me down is a resource hog website or a massive spreadsheet. Actual limitation is memory - never CPU/GPU
It will probably not, because they are keeping Th5 for the Pro and Max chips on the MBP. It will be another couple of years or more before the Air gets those ports, in all probability.
It seems silly to me that we have to wait another 6 months for the M4 Max in a Studio when it's already available in the MacBook Pro.
There is just no reason to buy a Studio at the moment. (I suppose, unless it's massively discounted.)
There is just no reason to buy a Studio at the moment. (I suppose, unless it's massively discounted.)
1) Bragging rights.
2) You can actually do enough extra work for profit with the new machine to pay back the extra cost.
Combine two Apple machines into one.
If I acquire a 16" M4 MAX MacBook Pro (128GB & 8TB SSD), I could easily retire both my M1 MAX MacBook Pro (64GB & 4TB SSD) and M1 Ultra Mac Studio (128GB & 8TB SSD).
If I acquire a 16" M4 MAX MacBook Pro (128GB & 8TB SSD), I could easily retire both my M1 MAX MacBook Pro (64GB & 4TB SSD) and M1 Ultra Mac Studio (128GB & 8TB SSD).
If you wait a little longer until early 2026 you could get the M5. Think about that yeah?
I tried combining iPads but it didn’t end well. Best to just buy a different device category in the first place instead of after market mods.
any word on the display updates, Studio display in particular? I am about ready to upgrade from my 2017 iMac to either specked out mini or maybe entry level studio but not sure what to do for display.
I wonder if they will push MacBook Air updates later in 2025 since they just refreshed the Airs on a RAM basis. If they had them coming in Spring I think it would have made sense to do the RAM jump then since a load of 8 GB MacBook Airs would have sold during the back to school period. Just my two cents.
Intel based Macs always seemed sluggish after <2 years (for me). Not at all the case with my M1 MBA.
I'd do the same for my creative teams every couple years. Buy them all new top-line Macs and hand-down their's to support and sales teams.
First day pre-order of the M4 MBA for me (to go with my new M4 Mac Mini). Then I’ll use my M1 MBA as my commuting laptop (thinner too!)
No mention if a display update is coming at all.
But IF it does, launching it in conjunction with the Mac studio update seems logical.
If you used your Mac laptop a lot you may have gotten a brand new machine by having Apple swap out the battery.
Yeah 3 months is not the same as 6 months.
And the M5 likely won’t be eligible for back to school discount until June 2026. Think about that.
No mention of battery in my comments. Never had an issue with any Mac battery.... especially not in iMacs, Minis
