MacBook Air 15": M3 chip 256GB - Starlight

MacBook Air 15″. Power that puts in the hours.
The M3 chip brings even greater capabilities to the super-portable 15-inch MacBook Air. With up to 18 hours of battery life and a spacious Liquid Retina display, you can take it anywhere and blaze through work and play.

Key features

Lean. Mean. M3 Machine
The blazing-fast MacBook Air with the M3 chip is a super-portable laptop that sails through work and play.

Portable Design
Lightweight and just over 11 millimetres thin, so you can take MacBook Air anywhere you go.

Get More Done Faster
The powerful 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU of the Apple M3 chip keep things running smoothly.

Up to 18 hours of Battery life
Amazing, all-day battery life so you can leave the power adapter at home.

More Room For What You Love
The 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display supports one billion colours.

Look Sharp, Sound Great
Everything looks and sounds amazing with a 1080p HD camera, three mics, and six speakers with Spatial Audio.

Apps Fly With Apple Silicon
All your favourites, from Microsoft 365 to Adobe Creative Cloud, run lightning fast in macOS.

Get Connected
MacBook Air features two Thunderbolt ports, a headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6E,4 Bluetooth 5.3 and a MagSafe charging port. And connect up to two external displays with the laptop lid closed.

If You Love iPhone, You'll Love Mac
MacBook Air works like magic with your other Apple devices. Start an email on your iPhone and finish it on your Mac. Send text messages from your Mac. And much more.

Technical Specifications

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.

Liquid Retina display
15.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;
2880-by-1864 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch
500 nits brightness

Color
Support for 1 billion colors
Wide color (P3)
True Tone technology
MagSafe 3 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)

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
3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high‑impedance headphones
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 Compact Power Adapter
USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable
Fast-charge capable with 70W USB-C Power Adapter

Height:1.15 cm
Width:34.04 cm
Depth:23.76 cm
Weight:1.51 kg

Note: Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process

Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax)

Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.3

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

Features include:
Voice Control
VoiceOver
Siri and Dictation
Increase Contrast
Reduce Motion
Live Captions
Switch Control
Zoom

What’s in the box
15-inch MacBook Air
35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter
USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2 m)

Note:
1. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/za/batteries for more information.
2. The display on the 15-inch MacBook Air has rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 15.3 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).
3. Apps are available on the App Store.
4. Wi-Fi 6E available in countries and regions where supported.
5. Requires iCloud and internet connection.