MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024)
Quick look
- Price
- £1,2992launch price
- Chip
- M3chip
- CPU
- 8-coreCPU
- GPU
- 10-coreGPU
- Memory
- 8GB3unified memory, base
- Storage
- 256GBstorage, base
- Display
- 15.3-inchdisplay
- Battery life
- Up to18 hrsvideo playback, claimed
- Released
- 8 March 20242ReleasedIn Apple Stores; orderable online from 4 March 2024.
- Security updates
- Not available4Security updates
Each figure is from the source marked1 unless it carries its own number.
Specifications
Body
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 340.4 x 237.6 mm
- Weight
- 1.51 kg
- Colours
- Silver, Starlight, Space Grey, Midnight
- Ports
- Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, MagSafe 3 port, 3.5mm headphone jack
- Thunderbolt ports
- 2
- Thunderbolt version
- Thunderbolt 3
- USB-A ports
- No USB-A ports.5
- HDMI
- No HDMI port.6
- SD card slot
- No SD card slot.6
- Headphone jack
- Yes
- MagSafe
- Yes
- Keyboard
- Backlit Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
- Touch ID
- Yes
Display
- Display size
- 15.3 in
- Resolution
- 2880 x 1864
- Pixel density
- 224 ppi
- Display type
- Liquid Retina display
- Brightness
- 500 nits
- Wide colour (P3)
- Yes
- Nano-texture option
- No nano-texture display option.6
Chip and memory
- Chip
- Apple M3 chip
- Apple silicon
- Yes
- CPU cores
- 8
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 4
- GPU cores
- 10
- Neural Engine cores
- 16
- Chip options
- M3 with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU
- Memory (base)
- 8GB3
- Memory (maximum)
- 24GB3
- Memory options
- 8GB, 16GB or 24GB3
- Memory upgradeable by user
- No, as Apple documents7
- Memory bandwidth
- 100 GB/s
- Storage (base)
- 256GB
- Storage (maximum)
- 2TB
- Storage options
- 256GB, 512GB, 1TB or 2TB
- Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAWvideo decode enginevideo encode engineProRes encode and decode engineAV1 decode engine
Battery and power
- Battery capacity
- 66.5 Wh
- Rated charge cycles
- 1,000 cycles8
- Video playback (claimed)
- 18 h
- Wireless web (claimed)
- 15 h
- Included power adapter
- 35 W
- Fast charging
- Yes
Connectivity
Camera and audio
- Camera
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera
- Speakers
- Six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers
- Microphones
- Three-mic array with directional beamforming
What it actually costs
- Used, Grade A
- £685–£84013cheapest of 4 CeX listings · out of stock online and in store when read · repriced 7 October 2026 · since 15 Oct 2026 · earlier: £650–£840 from 2 Oct 2026
- Used, Grade B
- £660–£70014cheapest of 4 CeX listings · out of stock online and in store when read · repriced 7 October 2026 · since 15 Oct 2026 · earlier: £630–£665 from 2 Oct 2026
- Used, Grade C
- £585–£64015cheapest of 4 CeX listings · out of stock online and in store when read · repriced 7 October 2026 · since 15 Oct 2026 · earlier: £555–£610 from 2 Oct 2026
- Trade in yours, Grade A
- £424 cash / £493 voucher1316% more as store credit
Read 3 November 2026. CeX is one UK retailer; its used and trade-in figures are shown at its condition grades for the base configuration: M3 with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 8GB memory, 256GB storage. “Since” is the first day MacIQ read that figure; “earlier” figures were each read from the date shown. We hold no stock and take no commission.
Apple UK price, as listed
Apple’s UK store page for the base configuration (Apple M3 chip, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 8GB memory, 256GB storage), as the Internet Archive saved it. Each row runs from the first to the last Internet Archive capture MacIQ read at that price; the price may have held before and after. MacIQ read a selection of the Archive’s captures, not every one. Read 18 October 2026.
Software support
Previous and next model
Previous model
What changed
- Ports
- Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, MagSafe 3 charging port, 3.5mm headphone jack MacBook Air M2Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, MagSafe 3 port, 3.5mm headphone jack MacBook Air M3
- Chip
- Apple M2 chip MacBook Air M2Apple M3 chip MacBook Air M3
- Wi-Fi
- Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax) MacBook Air M2Wi‑Fi 6E (802.11ax) MacBook Air M3
Next model
What changed
- Ports
- Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, MagSafe 3 port, 3.5mm headphone jack MacBook Air M3Two Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, MagSafe 3 charging port, 3.5mm headphone jack MacBook Air M4
- Chip
- Apple M3 chip MacBook Air M3Apple M4 chip MacBook Air M4
- CPU cores
- 8 MacBook Air M310 MacBook Air M4
- Memory (base)
- 8GB MacBook Air M316GB MacBook Air M4
- Memory bandwidth
- 100 GB/s MacBook Air M3120 GB/s MacBook Air M4
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Comparisons
Against its own line
Against the rest of the range
- MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) vs iMac (24-inch, M4, 2024, Four ports)
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- MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) vs MacBook Pro (14-inch, M4 Pro, 2024)
- MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) vs MacBook Pro (16-inch, M4 Pro, 2024)
- MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) vs MacBook Air (13-inch, M3, 2024)
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- MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) vs Mac Studio (M2 Max, 2023)
Sources
Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple unveils the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) - Tech Specs ·
↩Security updates: no end date published.
↩No USB-A ports.
↩No HDMI port. No SD card slot. No nano-texture display option. No Ethernet port.
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Pro: how to remove or install memory ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Determine battery cycle count for Mac laptops ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — macOS 27 Golden Gate is compatible with these computers ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Air model ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Air model ·
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Feature and security updates: end dates not published by Apple.
↩Apple’s macOS 27 Golden Gate compatibility list names this Mac. endoflife.date says Apple usually provides security updates for the latest three macOS releases, but that this isn’t consistently applied; Apple publishes no end date.
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Not published by Apple
MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024). Apple doesn’t publish for this Mac: refresh rate, storage upgradeable by user, the macOS it shipped with. Geekbench 7: the Mac chart has no entry for this Mac, so no figures are shown (chart read 10 Oct 2026). Pages checked: Apple Support (UK) — MacBook Air (15-inch, M3, 2024) - Tech Specs; Apple Support (UK) — Identify your MacBook Air model; Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple unveils the new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip; Apple Support (UK) — macOS 27 Golden Gate is compatible with these computers, read 9 Oct 2026.