Apple MacBook Air With M2 Looks Almost Perfect—But There’s a Notch

A new multiplication of MacBook Air has arrived .

Announced at WWDC 2022 , the latest version of Apple ’s entry - level laptop was redesigned with a large display , a new processor , unfermented color options , and — for beneficial or uncollectible — a pass .

The first thing you ’ll notice about the MacBook Air is the new color options . Along with traditional Space Gray and Silver , the new Air is uncommitted in Starlight ( diffuse gold ) and Midnight ( dark blueish ) . It has an aluminum unibody enclosure that count a bit flatter than before ( goodbye poor boy ) and is more portable , at 0.5 inch duncical and 2.7 pounds .

MacBook Air M2

MacBook Air M2Image: Apple

Apple also brought back MagSafe for this laptop computer , freeing up the two Thunderbolt porthole on the left-hand side . On the right field is a 3.5 mm earphone jak with mellow - impedance sound support .

The screen has been lucubrate from 13.3 inches to 13.6 inch , but a notch was add in the physical process . It see the same as the one on the MacBook Pro 14 and 16 , meaning the top edge of the screen is interrupt by a dark rectangle . Along with being larger than before , the new Liquid Retina Display is 25 % brighter .

Above the display is a 1080p webcam , which promises to deliver a much better video quality than the 720p common snapping turtle on the old model . Augmenting the tv camera is a three - mic array and a four - loudspeaker system sound organisation . The Magic Keyboard returns , with a full - stature affair row and Touch ID . Below the keyboard is a Force Touch trackpad .

MacBook Air M2

MacBook Air M2Image: Apple

Under the strong-armer is an M2 processor , the soph release among Apple ’s custom splintering , follow the M1 , M1 Pro , M1 Max , and M1 Ultra . It is an enhanced , second - generation 5 nm chip with 20 billion transistors , which is 20 % more than the M1 . It digest 100GB / s memory bandwidth , which is 50 % more than M1 .

With M2 , which had four performance and four efficiency core , you may get up to 24 GB of unified memory , up from 16 GB but short of the 32 GB you find on some ultra - portable PCs . Apple says its multi - core CPU performance is 18 % greater than M1 . Apple also claims it ’s 1.9x quicker than a 10 - core windowpane PC but uses a quarter of the baron . M2 has a next - gen GPU with 10 heart and soul , up from 8 cores , and a higher cache and memory bandwidth to enable 35 % faster performance . It is supposedly 2.3x quicker than integrated graphics in a microcomputer while usin one - fifth of the power .

The MacBook Air is still fanless despite gaining the more powerful potato chip , and foretell 18 hours of battery life history while doing video playback . Another nice addition is a unexampled stocky power adapter with two USB - C ports . And for the first time , the MacBook Air supports Fast Charge to juice up to 50 % in just 30 arcminute .

MacBook Air M2

MacBook Air M2Image: Apple

Apple ’s WWDC event also unveiled a unexampled MacBook Pro 13 with M2 chips , but an otherwise unaltered design .

The MacBook Air with M2 will be useable “ next calendar month ” commence at $ 1,199 or $ 1,099 for Department of Education , while the MacBook Pro will cost $ 1,299 or $ 1,119 for Education Department .

Updating as more information arrives .