With the Apple MacBook Air M3, you’ll get some power in your hands. This rather pleasantly priced notebook is available in 13- and 15-inch variants.
You can’t escape a computer even as an audiophile. And so why not choose something that is stylish and capable just like the rest of your audio system? The newly released Apple MacBook Air M3 might meet those requirements. It runs on Apple’s latest in-house developed CPU/GPU: the M3. The cheapest variant features 8 GPUs, 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM for $1299. If you want more, there is the 10-core GPU variant for €1529 (but that includes a 512GB SSD). Furthermore, 15-inch models are available. So plenty of (configurable) choice.
Expensive?
Very nice for some people is that you can now connect two external displays with the new MacBook Air M3. But let’s be very honest: even the cheapest model has more than enough to offer an audiophile, home worker, student and so on. A big advantage of Apple Silicon-based notebooks is the very favorable power consumption/performance ratio. Last but not least – we are slightly enthusiast – a MacBook Air is no more expensive than a midrange or high-end Windows laptop. But with Apple it includes no-hassle support in your own language, for example. Also not unimportant is the large amount of audio-related software that exists for MacOS.
If you still have an M2 or even M1 Macbook Air in use, should you switch immediately? Nah. That M1 was already blazing fast, and the M2 even faster again. Better to wait a few years then we would say.