This Friday, the new MacBook Air with the M2 chip is going to be available. The first reviews of the new MacBook Air have been shared by some media outlets and will provide a closer look at the new notebook and its capabilities.
Key features of the new MacBook Air include Apple's latest M2 chip, a new design with flatter edges, a slightly larger 13.6-inch display with a notch, MagSafe charging, and an upgraded1080p camera. The notebook has a 3.5mm headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones.
The price for the new MacBook Air is $1,100. The notebook has a choice of up to 24GB of unified memory and up to 2 terabytes of solid state storage.
The new MacBook Air is "Apple's near- perfect Mac", according to the author.
The Air is impressively thin and light, but it also has a bigger and better screen, a great set of speakers and a nifty MagSafe power adapter. And thanks to Apple's M2 chip, it's also far speedier than the last model, a computer I called "stunningly fast" just a year-and-a-half ago. Once again, Apple has set a new standard for ultraportables.
The new MacBook Air is a success on virtually every level. It's got a better screen, thinner and lighter design, better speakers, a much-improved webcam, an excellent keyboard and trackpad, more convenient charging, and excellent build quality.
But that success comes at a cost, literally, and the performance advancements over the M1 model aren't as stark as the design and feature improvements are. The M2 Air is a better choice for the vast majority of people over the 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro model, even though the Pro has slightly better performance and longer battery life.
There are a lot of benchmarks for the new MacBook Air. The results of Geekbench 5 show that the M2 chip can deliver up to 18% faster multi-core performance compared to the M1 model, while single-core performance is up to 11% faster.
The wedge-shaped design of the MacBook Air is replaced by a flatter design. Dan said he was a fan of the new design, which he described as "remarkably thin" and portable.
Yet it's remarkably thin — just a smidge over 11 millimeters — and that thinness is immediately noticeable when you open the lid and start typing on it. It's also noticed whenever you slot it into a bag or carry it around. The older MacBook Air's tapered shape had less visual weight and may look thinner, but the new model is indeed slimmer than its predecessor.
It's also slightly lighter, at 2.7 pounds vs. the older model's 2.8. That's not a huge difference, and the Air is far from the lightest computer you can buy, but it does make it extremely portable and easy to tote around wherever I need it.
The base model of the new MacBook Air has a single chip which will result in slower speeds in benchmark testing. Real-world performance of the new MacBook Air is even faster than before, but the statement doesn't say anything about the speeds of the SSDs.
Thanks to the performance increases of M2, the new MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro are incredibly fast, even compared to Mac laptops with the powerful M1 chip. These new systems use a new higher density NAND that delivers 256GB storage using a single chip. While benchmarks of the 256GB SSD may show a difference compared to the previous generation, the performance of these M2 based systems for real world activities are even faster.
It was discovered last month that the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip has slower read and write speeds than the previous generation model.
The dilemma arises from the fact that Apple used a single flash storage chip instead of two in the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. Faster speeds can be achieved with multiple NAND chips in configurations with more than 512 gigabytes of storage.
We recommend configuring the new MacBook Air with at least 512GB of storage if it's important to your work.
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