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The new MacBook Air with M2 chip It is now available for order on Amazon, with first units shipped to customers starting Friday, July 15.
The basic model of MacBook Air with M2 chip It has a price of 1529€ for the 256GB configuration and 1879€ for 512GB.
Features and new design
The new MacBook Air M2 presents the most significant change to the design of the MacBook Air line in the last 10 years, with a uniformly flat chassis, larger display and - finally - thinner screen frames.
Like MacBook Pro From 14” and 16” in 2021, the front camera is now housed inside an - iconic but vomiting - notch on the display.
The Apple Silicon M2 chip improves CPU and GPU performance, making the new MacBook Air M2 about 20% more performing than the already fast MacBook Air M1.
The redesigned chassis, of course, is inspired by the design of the MacBook Pro 2021, with a square appearance with rounded edges, leaving behind the classic cone design of MacBook Air and measuring just 11.3 millimeters.
The New MacBook Air is available in a choice of four finishes:
- Silver
- Space Grey
- Galaxy
- Mezzanotte
Magsafe and USB-C charging
After years of absence, finally, MagSafe is back as a charging option default and every MacBook Air M2 is equipped with a MagSafe 3 cable matching the chassis finish.
Can you charge the Macbook Air M2 with a USB-C cable?
Yes, you can still recharge the MacBook Air M2 via the USB-C ports if you prefer it over charging with Magsafe.
Speaking of charging options, Apple also sells new adapters from dual-port USB-C power supply.
New features and redesigned features
The new design of MacBook Air M2 presents:
- Thinner display edges, allowing for a 13.6 inch larger display (even if part of that viewing space is' stolen 'by the notch on the front camera)
- Display quality has improved, with 25% more brightness and support for 1 billion colors for the first time on the Air line.
- The webcam is FINALLY updated to 1080p resolution, thus achieving a quality similar to the MacBook Pro camera (which had to be a standard for at least a couple of years).
- Improved audio experience with an integrated four-speaker array, with support for Spatial Audio
M2 chip performance and battery
The new M2 chip mounted in the new MacBook Air allows:
- up to 20% faster single-core CPU performance and a Up to 50% faster GPU, based on tests carried out on the boring but updated MacBook Pro with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU M2 chip
- setups up to 24 GB of RAM.
- complex workloads such as editing videos in Final Cut or applying filters in Photoshop are the 20-40% faster than the MacBook Air M1 without affecting battery life
- Can the battery life reach Up to 18 hours of battery lifeto in continuous video playback on a single charge (FROM HIGH)
MacBook Air M2 price
The price of the new MacBook Air with M2 It starts from 1529€ for the basic configuration.
The configuration from 1529€ includes an 8-core CPU, an 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD.
The configuration from 1879€ includes an 8-core CPU, a 10-core GPU, 8 GB of RAM and an SSD with 512 GB of storage and Includes compact dual power adapter.
Really wanting to exaggerate, the maximum configuration with 24GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD storage reaches a total of 3029€ (and that's why I got the Pro 14 and not this one hahaha)
When will the new Macbook Air M2 be available?
The new MacBook Air M2 will available starting from July 15, the day on which the first deliveries will also take place.
The deliveries of the custom configurations for 16GB of RAM or 1TB of SSD are instead scheduled for mid-August.
Pre-order on Amazon is available from NOW.
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