iStore South Africa has published price for the new Apple macbook pro Y MacBook Air notebooks as part of a reserve campaign.

The new Apple MacBook devices use the Apple M1 chipset, which Apple says offers significant improvements in performance and energy efficiency over the previous generation.

The 13-inch Apple MacBook Air offers up to five times the graphics performance of the previous generation thanks to the Apple M1 chipset.

It’s completely silent as it has no built-in fan, and battery life has been vastly improved, offering up to 18 hours of video playback on a single charge.

It also has an improved 13.3-inch Retina display and greatly improved camera quality.

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro offers 2.8 times more performance than the previous generation thanks to its Apple M1 chip and includes an integrated 8-core GPU.

Apple praised the battery capabilities of the MacBook Pro, which offers the longest battery life ever seen in a Macbook Pro.

This comprises 17 hours of wireless web use or 20 hours of video playback, which is double that of the previous generation device.

The new MacBook Pro also comes with a studio-quality three-microphone array, as well as an improved webcam, which Apple claims will result in superior video calling.

South African prices

Local prices for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models available at the time of writing on iStore are below.

Color options are Space Gray or Silver for MacBook Pro and Space Gray, Silver or Gold for MacBook Air.

Setting	Price
13-inch MacBook Air
Apple M1 chip, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM	R19,999
Apple M1 chip, 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM	24,999 R
13-inch MacBook Pro
Apple M1 chip, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM	R25,999
Apple M1 chip, 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM	R29,999