Apple's Mac lineup for 2025 will include quite a lot of updates, with the Mac Studio anticipated to get a refresh early in the year alongside more typical updates.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple’s 2025 will be “loaded.” That includes the Mac, and Gurman cites the timeframe for when Apple will release new Macs–most of what Gurman reports has been stated before,

Apple already introduced the M4 Max chip in the new MacBook Pro, and it’s currently one of the fastest chips on the market. It sports a 16 core CPU and 40 core GPU, which means a theoretical M4 Ultra would be around double that – with a 32 core CPU and 80 core GPU, thanks to Apple’s UltraFusion technology.

There is a good chance that Apple's first product announcement of 2025 will be updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models with the M4 chip.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman revealed that the new 13-inch and 15-inch iPad Air models will be powered by the M4 chip,

It doesn’t make sense to own a dedicated desktop computer anymore. Just get the base M4 MacBook and use it for all your computing needs.

Therefore, the Mac Mini with M4 is better than the MacBook Air M3. Speaking of the configurations, the M4 Mac Mini is available in both M4 and M4 Pro chips. The base model M4 features a 10-core CPU, and the M4 Pro features a 14-core CPU.

The M4 MacBook Air could launch in just a few months, but Apple is retiring another MacBook Air — and not the one you think.