New details on Apple's upcoming MacBook Air laptops show the advantages of using the Apple Silicon M4 chipset.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's latest MacBook Air models with the M4 chip are slated for a March launch. The company plans to update the 13-inch and 15-inch versions of the MacBook Air M3 with this new chip. Staff preparations for this release are reportedly underway, as mentioned in Gurman's Power On newsletter.

An early March release would set a new spring refresh cycle for the MacBook Air. Last year, Apple announced the M3 MacBook Air on March 4 and made it available in stores on March

Previous reports had said that the new MacBook Air will feature a version of the M4 chip, which was introduced in November with the 14-inch MacBook Pro. The current entry-level MacBook Air has 2 fewer graphics cores (8 versus 10) than the higher-end models, so it’s likely Apple will continue this trend.

Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an update to M4 chips in March, according to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. With the slim laptops’ spec bump, the MacBook line’s M4 transition will be complete.

The wait for the M4 MacBook Air is almost over, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. While M4-powered MacBook Pros have been on shelves since November, buyers of the cheaper and more lightweight Air still only have the M3 model to play with. But that should change next month, a year after the M3 MacBook Air launched.

The Apple MacBook Air M4 surfaced on the Geekbench archives earlier this week, and it's scores indicated performance that rivals the MacBook Pro 14 M4.

A recent Geekbench benchmark suggests that the M4 MacBook Air will see some performance improvements but remains slightly slower than the M4 MacBook Pro.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox