MacBook Air with M2: Can be pre-ordered from Apple today

With the M2, Apple has introduced a new chip that offers significantly more power than the M1 with the same power consumption. First, the M2 is used in the Fanless MacBook Air, which has a modified design with a MagSafe.

Updated July 8

Starting from today, 7th July At 14 o’clock You can pre-order the new MacBook Air. The official start of the sale will be on July 15th. So if you pre-order now, it will probably be delivered within a week. Its price From 1,499 euros Go for education From 1,384 euros. Pre-orders can be made through the Apple website and the Apple Store app.

Original post from June 7th

At the in-house developer conference WWDC, Apple introduced not only software, but also new hardware. The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13 are the successors to the successful M1 chip ৷ however, the Pro model retains the old design with a touch bar. According to Apple, the MacBook Air is the most popular Mac device and the best-selling notebook worldwide.

Flattery, more compact and with a groove

The manufacturer has given the 2022 model a more angular and slimmer design It is thin with dimensions of 1.13 × 30.41 × 21.5 cm (H × W × D) and 20 percent more compact Compared to before – it now weighs only 1.24 instead of 1.29 kilograms. The edges of the screen have shrunk and the corners of the LC display are now rounded. Like the MacBook Pro 14 “/ 16”, Apple also uses the so-called camera notch. This increases the diagonal of the screen from 13.3 13.6 inches On. Brightness increases from a maximum of 400 500 nits. However, a higher frame rate (promotion) is reserved for larger Pro models.

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There are also two Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left, but one MagSafe-Ladeanschluss New models will be available there. On the right is a 3.5mm jack. Apple made it in 2022 Air Four speakers Even better with advanced microphones, including support for 3D audio Full-HD-Webcam. The power button again includes Touch ID. Transmission via Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0.

80 percent is charged in 20 minutes

The base model of the MacBook Air comes with a 30-watt charger, while the manufacturer includes a dual USB-C charger (35 watts) or a 67-watt charger for configuration with more memory and more GPU cores. Fast charging with 67 watts also supports the cheaper version (80 percent in 20 minutes). The battery lasts from 49.9 to 52.6 watt hours and is expected to be used again Up to 15 hours of web surfing Or 18 hours of movie playback is enough.

Although the wind Passively cold That is, it will provide a lot of performance for the M2 chip. Compared to the M1, it has more than 20 billion transistors instead of 16 billion and is produced using an optimized five-nanometer process. The ARM-based CPU has four modified performance and efficiency cores. The latter seems to be more powerful and Apple has increased the performance core L2 cache to 16MB. M2 ends, with a power consumption of 15 watts 18 percent faster than the M1.

M2 has surpassed M1, but a deficit remains

The M2’s GPU is available with eight or ten cores, previously there were seven to eight. With the same energy consumption GPU 25 percent performance To be, peak performance is even 35 percent higher than the M1.

Memory shared by CPU and GPU now provides LPDDR5 and a memory controller bandwidth instead of LPDDR4X 100 gigabytes per second – 50 percent more Although the M1 allows a maximum of 16 GB of RAM than before, it comes with the M2 Up to 24 GB Configurable In addition, Media Engine, Secure Enclave and Neural Engine have been optimized. The latter is up to 40 percent faster. However, the display engine remains unchanged, which is why the MacBook Still only an external display Supported with maximum 6K resolution.