when apple launched its m3 macbook air in march this year, it claimed that the new m3 chip is 20% faster than the m2. While that number might make you immediately want to throw away your trusty m1 or m2 mac and upgrade to the new m3, is it even worth it? that's what we'll try to find and dissect in this guide. so, let's save a few bucks (if we can), shall we?
Here's the thing about the M3 Macbook Air…
The m3 macbook air is apple's latest offering and is understandably the most powerful air available right now. but to upgrade to it from m2 or m1 air? that's a completely different story. When creating the macbook air m3 specs and benchmarks, I had the opportunity to use the base m2 and m1 air as well. so, my evaluations and opinions below are derived from that. so….
for those unaware, apple's m3 chip is based on the architecture of the latest a17 pro bionic that powers the iphone 15 pro max. so this is tsmc's 3nm chipset we're talking about, and you get to use the dynamic caching that this new gpu architecture brings to your mac.
because of this, tasks like heavy editing and even gaming can be handled by the m3 without breaking much of a sweat. you can actually enjoy the limited AAA titles like resident evil 4 remake and death stranding with considerable frames per second.
