Apple’s slow trickle of early 2025 product announcements is apparently set to continue this week, following the introduction of the iPhone 16e a couple of weeks ago. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company plans to refresh its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air laptops “as early as this coming week,” adding the M4 processor that Apple put in the iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro lineups last fall.
An M4 refresh for the MacBook Air was always likely, but Apple has kept us guessing about the timing. Usually, the MacBook Airs are among the first devices to get new M-series processors from Apple, but Apple surprised us by bringing the M4 to the iPad Pro just a few months after introducing the M3. In mid-December, concrete references to the M4 MacBook Air appeared in the macOS 15.2 update, suggesting that the laptops were in testing, even if they weren’t ready for a public launch yet.
The laptops are unlikely to look too different from the current M2 or M3 MacBook Airs, which got an “update” of sorts last fall when Apple discontinued the versions with 8GB of RAM in favor of 16GB versions that kept the same prices.
