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MacBook Air timeline and specs
Every MacBook Air in One Infinite Fruit, from the original 2008 wedge to Apple Silicon models, with design notes, specs, launch prices and links to full history pages.
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MacBook Air (1st gen)Steve Jobs slid it out of a manila envelope and the audience lost it.
MacBook Air (2010)The Air found its identity: all-flash, instant-on, and finally affordable, with a tiny 11.6" model.
MacBook Air 11-inch (2010)The 11-inch Air felt like Apple’s anti-netbook: tiny, fast enough, beautifully built and instantly awake.
MacBook Air (2013)Same wedge, but Haswell efficiency pushed battery life to a then-unheard-of 12 hours.
MacBook Air (Retina, 2018)The beloved Air finally went Retina, gained Touch ID and slimmed its bezels — though it inherited the troublesome butterfly keyboard for a couple more years.
MacBook Air (M1)The third great architecture leap, and the most decisive.
MacBook Air (M2)The Air’s first redesign in years: the tapered wedge gone in favour of a uniform-thin slab, with MagSafe charging restored and a brighter, bigger display.
MacBook Air 15" (M2)The big-screen Air people had wanted for years: a 15.3" display, six speakers and all-day battery, still thin and fanless.
MacBook Air (M3, 2024)A clean M3 update to both Air sizes, finally supporting dual external monitors and adding Wi-Fi 6E — the no-brainer everyday laptop, refreshed.
MacBook Air (M4, 2025)The everyday champion gets the M4, a 16 GB base, a Center Stage webcam and a fresh Sky Blue finish — and Apple knocked the starting price back to $999.
MacBook Air (M5)The Air’s M5 refresh keeps the familiar 13- and 15-inch designs while moving Apple’s most popular laptop to the latest Apple Silicon generation.Browse by year
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Last updated: 2026-06-30