Apple He has just announced the renewal of two of his computers: Mac Studionow with chips M4 Max and the new M3 ultraand the laptop MacBook Air with M4. But the most important thing is that Apple repeats the play it made yesterday, with the announcement of another Air device, and The new MacBook It reaches a more economical price than the previous generation. However, the Mac Studio does it to a superior.
MacBook Air with M4, more powerful and cheaper
The price of the macbook air is reduced in 100 eurosin form that the 13 -inch MacBook Air part of € 1,199 and the 15 -inch of € 1,499. They are equipped with the M4 processor (10 -core 10 -core CPUs) and 16 GB of RAM (extendable up to 32 GB of unified memory), which replaces those of the series M3 launched with the MacBook last year. In addition to improving gross performance at twice that the M1 (Apple always makes these advantageous comparisons), the chip offers great energy efficiency, with even 18 hours of autonomy with a single load.
The Macbook Air can now handle Two 6K monitors at the same time together with its integrated screen. The previous generations could only connect two external screens if the laptop screen It was closed and off.
Another component that has been updated in the new Macbook Air is the webcam. Now has a camera 12 MP Stage Center, which keeps the user centered on the frame while movingin addition to being compatible with Desk viewa function that can simultaneously show the user and the content of his desk.
Its appearance remains unchanged, except for the addition of color Sky blue to the options previously available: Silver, White Star and midnight. All of them with cables Magsafe matching.
For the rest, the new Macbook Air retains the characteristics of its predecessor, including its four or six speakers system, Touch ID In the ignition button, two ports Thunderbolt 4, Magsafe 3 and a screen Liquid retina 500 nits.
Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra, much more expensive
The new Mac Studio replaces the original model released in 2022, incorporating new processors and much more RAM memory (Of a maximum of 128 GB It has passed to 512 GB), as well as a price higher than that of the first batch with chips from the M1 series. Without changes in external design, now includes processors M4 Max and the new M3 ultra. The M4 Max has 14/16 CPU nuclei and 32/40 GPU nucleiwhile the ultra M3 is presented with 28/32 CPU nuclei and 60/80 GPU nuclei.
Compared to the original MAC Studio with M1 Max, the variant with M4 Max is 1.6 times faster in Photoshop2.1 more times in Xcode1.2 times more in transcoding PRORES and 1.6 times faster in video processing in TOPAZ AI.
As for M3 ultra, it offers a 2.6 -time performance in rendering with Maxon Redshift1.4 times faster in 8K video rendering in Final cut and 16.9 more times in tokens generation in LM Studiocompared to the ultra M1.
Apple has also improved connectivity, allowing Mac Studio users to have Thunderbolt 5 with a 120 Gbps bandwidth. In addition to ultra -grape data transfer, Thunderbolt 5 in the Ultra M3 allows connect up to 8 Pro Display XDR monitors with complete 6K resolution. Other ports include 10 Gbps Ethernet, 2 USB type-A, a headphone output and an SDXC card reader.
In 2022, the Mac Studio with M1 Max started from € 2,329 and with ultra M1 of € 4,629. The new generation does it From € 2,529 with M4 Max and € 5,049 with M3 Ultraa rise of € 200 and € 420, respectively. Both the new Macbook Air and Mac Studio can already be reserved on the Apple website, which will begin to deliver them The next day 12.