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Thats a sizable leap for anyone undertaking CPU-intensive tasks on their laptop.

Its not just the single-core tests where the M3 gear showed a serious improvement.

Person playing a game on new MacBook Air

However, that does mean that its not perfectly suited to intensive workloads.

While its CPU capabilities have markedly improved, youll want to use the MacBook Pro for truly heavy-duty work.

Still, its hard not to be impressed by the M3 MacBook Airs Geekbench results.

Woman using the new MacBook Air

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