The M3 chip in the current 13-inch MacBook Air has 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores, and the M4 chip in the baseline 14-inch MacBook Pro has 10 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores. The M3 and M4 chips feature a 16-core neural engine that supports Apple Intelligence features, but Apple says the M4 is twice as fast as the M3 with AI workloads.

Apple CEO Tim Cook just teased the launch of a new device coming to its Air lineup this week. In a post on X, Cook posted a short video with the text, “There’s something in the air” alongside a caption saying “this week.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has once more taken to X/Twitter to announce when the next new device is coming, and while he avoids saying its full name, it's the MacBook Air.