M4 MacBook Air, Mobile World Congress 2025, and AMD/NVIDIA's mid-range GPU fight

Apple finally dropped some long-awaited updates this week:  An M4 MacBook Air (now starting at $999!), M3 iPad Air, as well as a refreshed Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and M4 Max chips. In this episode, Cherlynn, Devindra and Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham chat about all of Apple's new hardware, as well as some interesting tidbits from Mobile World Congress 2025. Devindra also dives into his reviews of NVIDIA's RTX 5070 and AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. It turns out AMD has finally delivered some killer GPUs to counter NVIDIA's dominance.

 

We mentioned a bunch of stuff from our Mobile World Congress Roundup, you can check it out here

 

MacBook Air refresh announced with an M4 chip and a slight price drop – 2:04

What’s hot at Mobile World Congress 2025 – 23:10

Lenovo’s Solar PC – 35:20

Xiaomi 15 Ultra (with a fancy Leica camera) – 37:53

New releases from Nothing – 39:16

Samsung releases a trio of A series devices – 40:35  

NVIDIA vs. AMD part ∞: AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT edge out the GeForce RTX 5070 – 46:20

Pop culture picks – 54:11 

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