The M4 MacBook Air

It doesn’t take nearly as much clairvoyance to predict that Apple will launch its M4-powered MacBook Air lineup in the next few weeks. In fact, most of the usual sources expected the new M4 MacBook Air to be the first product we’d see in 2025; the iPhone SE upended that plan, likely because Apple wants to get a lower-cost model back on the market in Europe as soon as possible after it was forced to stop selling Lighting-equipped models at the end of 2024.

Having fully settled into the Apple silicon era, we seem to be moving into a comfortable cycle of MacBook releases: new MacBook Pro models in the fall and their MacBook Air counterparts the following spring. That was the two-step with the M3 MacBook Pro and M3 MacBook Air, which were announced on October 30, 2023, and March 4, 2024. With the M4 MacBook Pro arriving one year to the day after the M3 versions, we wouldn’t be surprised if the M4 MacBook Air also lands on March 4, 2025.

The new models have already been “shipping out from factories in Asia for several weeks,” according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, which means they could be announced any day now.