Apple's upcoming MacBook Air M4 could be a boringly awesome update - and I don't mind it

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple is gearing up to launch its lineup of MacBook Air laptops with the M4 chip as early as March, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Both the 13-inch and 15-inch configurations are expected to drop at the same time, just like last year's M3 Air models. The M4-Mac family will be complete The much-anticipated addition of the MacBook Air to the M4 family will round out all of the consumer laptop products with Apple Silicon's latest in processor technology, as the iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro all launched with it in the fall of 2024. We've seen some competitive sale prices on the MacBook Air M3, along with inventory reduction over the last few months, which is another sign that Apple wants to make room for the new M4 models. Following the pattern of past releases, the new MacBook Air models will likely be similarly specced to the low-end MacBook Pro, with 16GB of RAM and a 10-core CPU. Also: Apple's response to trade tariffs? A $500 billion investment and t ... Read full article.