Business computersENERGY STAR certified
Apple MacBook Air 15-inch (M3)
8 GB notebook computer, model number A3114.
Memory
8 GB
Processor
Apple
Typical electricity use
9.1 kWh/yr
NPU installed
No
Of 980 certified notebook business computers, 81 have a lower typical electricity use than the MacBook Air 15-inch (M3) (9.1 kWh/yr).
Its certified typical electricity use of 9.1 kWh/yr costs about $1.18 a year at 13¢/kWh.
ENERGY STAR has certified this model 2 times, first in Oct 2025. The figures here are from the most recent certification.
- Maker
- Apple
- Model
- MacBook Air 15-inch (M3)
- Model number
- A3114
- Type
- Notebook
- Processor
- Apple
- CPU cores
- 8
- Memory
- 8 GB
- NPU installed
- No
- Storage
- SDD
- Screen
- 15.3 in
- Battery
- 0 Wh
- Operating system
- MacOS
- Marketed as a workstation
- No
- Typical electricity use
- 9.1 kWh/yr
- Power in sleep
- 0.3 W
- Power at long idle
- 0.8 W
- Power when off
- 0.2 W
- On the market since
- Mar 2024
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 23 Oct 2025
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: MRYM3, MRYP3, MRYR3, MRYU3.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified business computers dataset, US EPA, record 4512671, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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