It’s basically the same old MacBook Pro, chunky bezels and all, except it has M2 this time. For some other strange reason, it still has a Touch Bar.
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13” MacBook Pro with M2, and it still has a Touch Barįor some reason, Apple is still making the 13-inch Pro. The new MacBook Air starts at $1,199 and will be available in July.
But who am I to question the wisdom of Cook and crew? The MagSafe cable even comes in a matching color.Ĭonsidering the wedge shape was the main aesthetic element linking the MacBook Air to earlier generations, I have to wonder why Apple doesn’t call its new laptop a plain-old MacBook. Grey, light grey, grey-ish gold, and dark blue-ish grey (okay, technically that’s space grey, silver, starlight, and midnight). You once again get two thunderbolt ports and a headphone jack, but with the return of MagSafe, you don’t have to waste one of those ports on charging.
Of course, the MacBook Air is powered by M2, and Apple claims the device will be able to get 20 hours of battery life. The new design also increases the screen size to 13.6” (up from 13”). That notch enables Apple to use a (hopefully) decent webcam while shrinking the bezels to a minuscule sliver. Yup, that’s right: Apple has brought its advanced screen cutout technology to the MacBook Air. Now, after 14 years, Apple has abandoned the wedge shape in favor of a 1.2 kg (2.7 lb) thin design that looks very… normal.Įxcept for the notch, that is. The MacBook Air was one of Steve Jobs’ most memorable product reveals - a thin wedge-shaped laptop that could somehow fit in a manilla envelope. Apple didn’t announce a new Mac Pro today, but we did get… A new MacBook Air, minus the wedge shape Given the Mac Pro is the main holdout in the transition to Apple Silicon, I expect it’ll be powered by that new chip whenever it rolls around. But going forward, you can expect Apple’s new releases to leverage the newer, more efficient chip architecture in more powerful forms. To be clear, Apple’s M1 Pro, Max, and Ultra are presumably still more powerful than the base version of M2. Of course, we’ll have to see real-world benchmarks to know how meaningful that difference really is.
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Specifically, Apple says it’s up to 1.9x faster than “the latest 10-core PC laptop,” which some fine print identifies as a laptop sporting Intel’s Intel i7-2255U chip. Unsurprisingly, Apple claims its chips offer significantly greater performance-per-watt than competition from Intel and AMD. The chip also now supports up to 24 GB of unified memory, up from the 16 GB of the previous generation. M2’s CPU is 18 percent faster than M1’s, and its 10-core GPU is up to 35 percent faster - Apple’s math works out to a chip that is up to 25 percent faster overall. A year and a half after shaking up the laptop industry with its introduction of the M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC) - and beginning its abandonment of Intel in the process - Apple is finally ready to introduce its next-generation SoC.