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MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) - Tech Specs

Year introduced: 2024

Finish

  • Silver

  • Starlight

  • Space Grey

  • Midnight

Chip

Apple M3 chip

  • 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores

  • 10-core GPU

  • Hardware-accelerated ray tracing

  • 16-core Neural Engine

  • 100GB/s memory bandwidth

Media Engine

  • Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW

  • Video decode engine

  • Video encode engine

  • ProRes encode and decode engine

  • AV1 decode engine

Display

Liquid Retina display

  • 15.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;1 2880x1864 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch

  • 500 nits brightness

Colour

  • Support for 1 billion colours

  • Wide colour (P3)

  • True Tone technology

Memory

  • 16GB unified memory

  • Configurable to

  • 24GB

  • 8GB unified memory

  • Configurable to

  • 16GB or 24GB

Battery and Power2

  • Up to 18 hours Apple TV app movie playback

  • Up to 15 hours wireless web

  • 66.5-watt‑hour lithium‑polymer battery

  • 35W Dual USB‑C Port Power Adapter

  • USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable

  • Fast-charge capable with 70W USB‑C Power Adapter

Storage3

  • 256GB SSD

  • Configurable to

  • 512GB, 1TB or 2TB

Charging and Expansion

  • MagSafe 3 port

  • 3.5mm headphone jack

  • Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

  • Charging

  • DisplayPort

  • Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)

  • USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)

Display Support

Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colours and:

  • One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

  • Close the MacBook Air lid to use a second external display with up to 5K resolution at 60Hz

Video Playback

  • Supported formats include HEVC, H.264, AV1 and ProRes

  • HDR with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG

Audio Playback

Supported formats include AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Atmos

Keyboard and Trackpad

Backlit Magic Keyboard with:

  • 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys and 4 arrow keys in an inverted “T” arrangement

  • Touch ID

  • Ambient light sensor

  • Force Touch trackpad for precise cursor control and pressure-sensing capabilities; enables Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing and Multi-Touch gestures

Wireless

Wi‑Fi

  • Wi‑Fi 6E (802.11ax)4

Bluetooth

  • Bluetooth 5.3

Camera

  • 1080p FaceTime HD camera

  • Advanced image signal processor with computational video

Audio

  • Six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers

  • Support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers

  • Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro and AirPods Max

  • Three-mic array with directional beamforming

  • Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum microphone modes

  • Enhanced voice clarity in audio and video calls

  • 3.5mm headphone jack with advanced support for high‑impedance headphones

Operating Requirements

  • Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC

  • Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz

  • Operating temperature: 10° to 35° C (50° to 95° F)

  • Storage temperature: –25° to 45° C (–13° to 113° F)

  • Relative humidity: 0% to 90% non‑condensing

  • Operating altitude: tested up to 3,000 metres (10,000 feet)

  • Maximum storage altitude: 4,500 metres (15,000 feet)

  • Maximum shipping altitude: 10,500 metres (35,000 feet)

Size and Weight

  • Height: 1.15 cm (0.45 inches)

  • Width: 34.04 cm (13.40 inches)

  • Depth: 23.76 cm (9.35 inches)

  • Weight: 1.51 kg (3.3 pounds)5

Operating System

macOS

macOS is the most advanced desktop operating system in the world. macOS Sequoia helps you be productive and creative in new ways — with Apple Intelligence,6 iPhone Mirroring, window tiling, major updates to Safari and more.

Learn more about latest operating system

Accessibility

Accessibility features help people with disabilities get the most out of their new MacBook Air. With built-in support for vision, hearing, mobility and learning, you can create and do amazing things.

Learn more about Accessibility

Features include:

  • Voice Control

  • VoiceOver

  • Siri and Dictation

  • Increase Contrast

  • Reduce Motion

  • Switch Control

  • Zoom

Built-in Apps7

  • App Store

  • Books

  • Calendar

  • Contacts

  • FaceTime

  • Find My

  • Freeform

  • GarageBand

  • Home

  • iMovie

  • iPhone Mirroring

  • Keynote

  • Mail

  • Maps

  • Messages

  • Music

  • News

  • Notes

  • Numbers

  • Pages

  • Photo Booth

  • Photos

  • Podcasts

  • Preview

  • QuickTime Player

  • Reminders

  • Safari

  • Shortcuts

  • Stocks

  • Time Machine

  • TV

  • Voice Memos

  • Weather

In the Box

  • 15-inch MacBook Air

  • 35W Dual USB‑C Port Power Adapter

  • USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2m)

Configure to Order

Configure your MacBook Air with these options at apple.com:

  • 24GB unified memory

  • 512GB, 1TB or 2TB SSD

  • 70W USB‑C Power Adapter

MacBook Air and the Environment

MacBook Air is designed with the following features to reduce its environmental impact:8

See the 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip Product Environmental Report (PDF)

Made with better materials

  • Made with 50% recycled content, including:

  • 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure

  • 100% recycled tin in the solder and gold in the plating of multiple printed circuit boards

  • 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets, representing 99% of the rare earth elements in the device

  • 100% recycled cobalt in the battery9 and magnets of the MagSafe connector

  • 100% recycled copper in the main logic board — an Apple first

  • 90% recycled steel in the battery tray, keyboard feature plate and trackpad beam plate

  • 35% or more recycled plastic in multiple components

Energy efficient

  • ENERGY STAR® certified10

Smarter chemistry11

  • Arsenic-free display glass

  • Mercury-, BFR- and PVC‑free

Green manufacturing

  • No established final assembly supplier sites generate any waste sent to landfill12

  • Over 25% of manufacturing electricity sourced from supplier clean energy projects13

Responsible packaging

  • 100% of virgin wood fibre comes from responsibly managed forests

  • 99% fibre‑based packaging due to our work to remove plastic from packaging14

Progress towards our 2030 goal

  • Reduced emissions for MacBook Air with M3 chip by over 40% against our baseline15

Apple and the Environment

Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and we are focused on our Apple 2030 goal to make every product carbon neutral.

See Apple’s commitment

Acoustic Performance

Declared noise emission values in accordance with ECMA-109

Sound Power Level

L W A,m (B)

Sound Pressure Level

Operator Position

L p A,m (dB)

Idle

1.3 (K V = 0.3)

3

Wireless web

1.3 (K V = 0.3)

4

  1. L W A,m is the mean A-weighted sound power level, rounded to the nearest 0.1 B.

  2. L p A,m is the mean A-weighted sound pressure level measured at operator position (rounded to the nearest 1 dB).

  3. 1 B (bel) = 10 dB (decibel).

  4. K v is the statistical adder for computing upper-limit of A-weighted sound power level.

  5. The quantity, L W A,c (formerly called L W Ad) may be computed from the sum of L W A,m and K v .

  6. The wireless web test browses 6 tabs with a mix of content including media.

  7. Configuration tested: M3, 8-core CPU / 10-core GPU, 8GB unified memory, 512GB storage.

  1. Screen size is measured diagonally. The displays on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air have rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screens are 13.6 inches and 15.3 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).

  2. Testing conducted by Apple in January 2024 using pre-production 15‑inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M3, 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, and pre-production 13‑inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M3, 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, all configured with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using pre‑production 13‑inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 8‑core GPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. The wireless web test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing 25 popular websites with display brightness set to 8 clicks from bottom. The Apple TV app movie playback test measures battery life by playing back HD 1080p content with display brightness set to 8 clicks from bottom. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/uk/batteries for more information.

  3. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.

  4. Wi‑Fi 6E available in countries and regions where supported.

  5. Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process.

  6. Apple Intelligence is available in beta on all Mac models with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to US English, as a macOS Sequoia update. English (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) language support available this December. Some features and support for additional languages, like Chinese, English (India, Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese and others, will be coming over the course of the next year.

  7. iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers and Keynote are available on the Mac App Store. Downloading apps requires an Apple Account and a device that is compatible with the OS version required for each app. iPhone Mirroring is not available in all countries and regions. Some iPhone features (e.g., cam­era and microphone) are not compatible with iPhone Mirroring.

  8. Data accurate as of product launch.

  9. Recycled cobalt in the battery uses mass balance allocation.

  10. ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR mark are registered trademarks owned by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

  11. Apple’s Regulated Substances Specification describes Apple’s restrictions on the use of certain chemical substances in materials in Apple products, accessories, manufacturing processes, and packaging used for shipping products to Apple’s end customers. Restrictions are derived from international laws or directives, regulatory agencies, eco-label requirements, environmental standards and Apple policies. Every Apple product is free of PVC and phthalates except for AC power leads in India, Thailand (for two-pin AC power leads) and the Republic of Korea, where we continue to seek government approval for our PVC and phthalates replacement. Apple products comply with the European Union Directive 2011/65/EU and its amendments, including exemptions for the use of lead such as high-temperature solder. Apple is working to phase out the use of these exempted substances for new products where technically possible.

  12. All established final assembly supplier sites — those that have been Apple suppliers for more than one year — for MacBook Air are third-party verified as Zero Waste by UL LLC (UL 2799 Standard). UL requires at least 90 per cent diversion through methods other than waste to energy to achieve Zero Waste to Landfill (Silver 90–94 per cent, Gold 95–99 per cent and Platinum 100 per cent) designations.

  13. We estimate the percentage of electricity-related emissions in our manufacturing that is sourced from clean electricity by attributing to our carbon model clean energy procured by our suppliers in the prior fiscal year, based on the supplier manufacturing allocations at time of product launch. Included in this number is only clean electricity that Apple or its suppliers have procured as part of Apple’s Supplier Clean Energy Programme.

  14. Breakdown of US retail packaging by weight. Adhesives, inks and coatings are excluded from our calculations of plastic content and packaging weight.

  15. Carbon reductions are calculated against a baseline scenario: 1) No use of clean electricity for manufacturing or product use, beyond what is already available on the latest modelled grid (based on regional emissions factors). 2) Apple’s carbon intensity of key materials as of 2015 (our baseline year for our 2030 product carbon-neutrality goal). Carbon intensity of materials reflects use of recycled content and production technology. 3) Apple’s average mix of transport modes (air, rail, sea, land) by product line across three years (fiscal years 2017 to 2019) to best capture the baseline transport emissions of our products.

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