Apple Macs in 2025: the best and worst moments of the year

The year is almost over, and there’s no doubt that 2025 was a significant one for all of Apple’s best Macs. From splitting up its chip launches to a radical redesign for macOS, we weren’t short of talking points over the last twelve months. Yet for all the successes, there were several notable failures, plus a host of disappointing absences with key products pushed to the back burner. Here, we’ll recap it all, putting Apple’s Mac efforts under the microscope and looking ahead to 2026.

Fresh-faced Mac upgrades

Apple began the year with the launch of a smattering of Macs, with one at the affordable end of the market and the other occupying flagship territory.

Starting with the former, Apple released the M4 MacBook Air in March 2025. This brought a few notable enhancements over the M3 MacBook Air ...