The M3 chip supports up to 24GB of unified memory, while the MacBookAirM1 tops out at 16GB of RAM. M3 packs an enhanced Neural Engine meant to accelerate machine learning (ML) models.
Before, it cost you $200 to upgrade from the base 8GB MacBook Air to 16GB, but now you get the latter at the entry-level, with no price increase from Apple.
Apple MacBookAirM1 8GB RAM/128GB SSD (renewed ... M2 13.6-inch 8GB RAM/256GB SSD — Apple MacBookAir M2 15.3-inch 16GB RAM/1TB SSD — We’ve taken a deep dive into the differences ...
The older M1MacBookAir offered only two USB 4 ports two USB ... especially now that Apple has upped the memory to 16GB as standard (do make sure you aren’t buying an older version with 8GB ...