MacBook Air M3 | 256GB | 16GB | 10C | 13-inch

MacBook Air 13″. Lean. Mean. M3 machine.

The M3 chip brings even greater capabilities to the super-portable 13-inch MacBook Air. With up to 18 hours of battery life, 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 up to 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.

A Brilliant Display

The 13.6-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 four 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.5 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 8-core GPU Hardware-accelerated ray tracing 16-core Neural Engine 100GB/s memory bandwidth.

Liquid Retina display

13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;
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

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)

Camera

1080p FaceTime HD camera

Advanced image signal processor with computational video

Audio

Four-speaker sound system

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 (M3)

Enhanced voice clarity in audio and video calls (M3)

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

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

Height: 1.13 cm

Width: 30.41 cm

Depth: 21.5 cm

Weight: .24 kg

Note:

Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process.

Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax)

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

13-inch MacBook Air

30W USB-C Power Adapter

USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable

Note:

Screen size is measured diagonally. The displays on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Airhave rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, thescreen is 15.3 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).

1. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/za/batteries for more information.
2. The display on the 13-inch MacBook Air has rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 13.6 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.