With the M2 MacBook Air now available for purchase, repair site iFixit picked one up and decided to do one of its traditional teardowns on the machine.
The biggest issue with the base model of the MacBook Air is a single storage chip, according to iFixit. The new MacBook Air has a single 512 gigabyte flash chip instead of the two 128 gigabyte chips used in the previous model.
Apple claims that the M2 MacBook Air's real-world performance is even faster than the prior-generation MacBook Air, despite the fact that the M2 MacBook Air has a slower flash chip.
Along with the storage chip, iFixit revealed other logic board components that include the 8-core M2 chip, an Apple-designed driver, a USI chip, and an accelerometer. There is no word on what the device will be used for.
iFixit didn't find a heat spreader and the site doesn't know what the passive cooling mechanism is for the M2 MacBook Air.
How does this thing cool down? Sure it has a lot of thermal paste and graphite tape, and yeah the M2 is efficient, but this shield is super thin, so it's not helping much, and the case is lighter than last year. Maybe the M2 Air is secretly an iPad, or maybe Apple is just letting it run hot.
The M2 MacBook Air has the same features as the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. The M2 MacBook Air has a larger battery than the M1 version of the Macbook Air.
All of the ports in the MacBook Air are modular and not glue down, but the M2 chip is soldered and cannot be easily upgraded or replaced.
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