MacBook Air 13-inch laptop (M3 chip, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is currently on sale for $899, 18% off its list price of $1,099. This allows you to pocket $200, which is a

Armed with the state-of-the-art M3 processor and 512GB of storage, the 2024 MacBook Air is one of Apple's best ever.

Apple has big plans for MacBooks in 2025, with the tech giant preparing to launch updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models in early 2025. These new laptops will be powered by the latest M4 chip and are expected to maintain the current design while offering major performance boosts, longer battery life, and advanced camera technology.

The 2024 M3 MacBook Air’s FaceTime HD camera has twice the resolution of the M1 MacBook Air, and with a brighter version of Apple’s Liquid Retina display and an improved 4-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio, videoconferencing and calls will come through more clearly than ever before.

Asus' magnesium-alloy, Qualcomm-based Zenbook aims squarely at the MacBook Air, and I went hands on with it at CES 2025 to see how it might compare.

The new machine not only succeeds in emulating the look of the MacBook Air, but exceeds its specs in no fewer than five different ways – including being even lighter … Glance quickly at the machine and you could easily be forgiven for mistaking it for a new MacBook Air.

In case you don’t know, CES is going on right now, and we’ve seen some amazing announcements already. ASUS, hot off of announcing its Vivobook 14 and Vivobook 16, just announced a device that might make you reconsider picking up that Macbook Air.