MacBook Air M3 13″ – 24GB / 512GB – Starlight (Model MC8P4)

Chip

Apple M3 chip

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

• 8-core GPU, 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

• Configurable to:

• M3 with 8‑core CPU and 10‑core GPU

Display

Liquid Retina display

• 13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;¹ 2560-by-1664 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch

• 500 nits brightness

Color

• Support for 1 billion colors

• Wide color (P3)

• True Tone technology

Display Support

M3

Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors 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

Battery and Power

• Up to 18 hours Apple TV app movie playback

• Up to 15 hours wireless web

• 52.6-watt‑hour lithium‑polymer battery

• 30W USB-C Power Adapter (included with M2 and M3 with 8‑core GPU)

• 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter (included with M2 and M3 with 10-core GPU and 512GB storage, configurable with M2 and M3 with 8‑core GPU)

• USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable

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

Charging and Expansion

• MagSafe 3 charging port

• 3.5 mm headphone jack

• Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

• Charging

• DisplayPort

• Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)

• USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)