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The new MacBook Air with M2 chip is now available for order on Amazon, with first units shipped to customers from Friday, July 15.
The MacBook Air base model 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 design change in the MacBook Air line in the last 10 years, with a uniformly flat chassis, larger display and - finally - thinner screen frames.
Like the 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 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 Gray
- Galaxy
- Midnight
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 that matches the chassis finish.
Can I charge the Macbook Air M2 with a USB-C cable?
Yes, you can still recharge the MacBook Air M2 through the USB-C ports if you prefer it over charging with Magsafe.
Speaking of charging options, Apple also sells new charging adapters dual port USB-C power supply.
News and redesigned features
The new design of the MacBook Air M2 presents:
- Thinner display edges, allowing for larger 13.6 inch display (even if some of that viewing space is' stolen 'from the front camera notch)
- 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 M2 chip with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU
- 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 M1 MacBook Air without affecting battery life
- battery life capable of achieving Up to 18 hours of battery lifeA in continuous video playback on a single charge (AWESOME)
Price of the MacBook Air M2
The price of the new MacBook Air with M2 starts at 1529€ for the basic configuration.
La configuration from 1529€ includes an 8-core CPU, an 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD.
La configuration from 1879€ includes an 8-core CPU, a 10-core GPU, 8 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD of storage and Includes compact dual power adapter.
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 took the Pro 14 and not this one hahahah)
When will the new MacBook Air M2 be available?
The new MacBook Air M2 will available starting July 15, the day on which the first deliveries will also take place.
Deliveries of custom configurations to have 16GB of RAM or 1TB of SSD are instead scheduled for mid-August.
The pre-order on Amazon is available now.
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