July 6, 2022
UPDATE
All-new MacBook Air with M2 out there to order beginning Friday, July 8
That includes a brand new, strikingly skinny design in 4 stunning finishes, bigger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina show, 1080p HD digicam, MagSafe charging, and extra
Starting Friday, July 8, at 5 a.m. PDT, the fully redesigned MacBook Air with M2 shall be out there to order, and can begin arriving to prospects worldwide on Friday, July 15. Supercharged by the M2 chip, the all-new MacBook Air options much more efficiency and a brand new strikingly skinny design, a bigger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina show, a 1080p FaceTime HD digicam, a four-speaker sound system, as much as 18 hours of battery life,1 and MagSafe charging. Now out there in 4 attractive finishes — midnight, starlight, silver, and house grey — MacBook Air with M2 begins at $1,199 (US) and $1,099 (US) for schooling.
New Design Enabled by M2
Utterly reimagined round M2, MacBook Air has a brand new design that’s remarkably skinny from each angle. With a sturdy, all-aluminum unibody enclosure that feels extremely strong and is constructed to final, it measures simply 11.3 millimeters skinny, is just 2.7 kilos, and delivers an astonishing 20 % discount in quantity from the earlier era. And with the facility effectivity of M2, the entire capabilities of MacBook Air are constructed right into a silent, fanless design. Along with silver and house grey, MacBook Air is now out there in two gorgeous new finishes: midnight and starlight.
MagSafe provides customers a devoted charging port that’s straightforward to hook up with whereas defending MacBook Air when it’s plugged in. MacBook Air additionally options two Thunderbolt ports for connecting quite a lot of equipment, and a 3.5 mm audio jack with help for high-impedance headphones. Moreover, the Magic Keyboard includes a full-height perform row with Contact ID, and a spacious, industry-leading Power Contact trackpad.
Beautiful 13.6-inch Liquid Retina Show
The brand new MacBook Air options a phenomenal 13.6-inch Liquid Retina show, which has been expanded nearer to the perimeters and up across the digicam to make room for the menu bar. The result’s a bigger show with a lot thinner borders, giving customers extra display actual property to view their content material in vivid element. At 500 nits of brightness, it’s also 25 % brighter than earlier than. MacBook Air now helps 1 billion colours, so pictures and flicks look extremely vibrant.
Superior Digital camera and Audio
MacBook Air features a new 1080p FaceTime HD digicam with twice the decision and low-light efficiency of the earlier era. Mixed with the processing energy of the superior picture sign processor on M2, customers will look nice on video calls.
MacBook Air additionally includes a four-speaker sound system. To suit inside such a skinny design, the audio system and mics are fully built-in between the keyboard and show — all whereas delivering an excellent higher audio expertise. A 3-mic array captures clear audio utilizing superior beamforming algorithms, whereas the audio system produce improved stereo separation and vocal readability. MacBook Air additionally helps immersive Spatial Audio for music and flicks with Dolby Atmos.
Extra Efficiency with M2
The M2 chip begins the following era of Apple silicon for the Mac, taking the breakthrough efficiency, energy effectivity, and capabilities of M1 even additional. From multitasking to creating charming photographs, MacBook Air with M2 is the whole lot customers may need on the earth’s best-selling pocket book.
- MacBook Air with M2 includes a extra highly effective 8-core CPU and as much as 10-core GPU, so customers can get extra accomplished sooner.
- With 100GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth and help for as much as 24GB of quick unified reminiscence, it might deal with even bigger and extra complicated workloads.
- M2 additionally provides a next-generation media engine with a robust ProRes video engine for hardware-accelerated encode and decode, so MacBook Air with M2 can play again extra streams of 4K and 8K video than earlier than.
- With M2, intensive workloads like enhancing complicated timelines in Last Lower Professional are practically 40 % sooner than the earlier era,2 and as much as 15x sooner for purchasers who haven’t upgraded to Apple silicon.3
- Making use of filters and results in apps like Adobe Photoshop is as much as 20 % sooner than earlier than,2 and as much as 5x sooner for purchasers who haven’t but upgraded to Apple silicon.3
- And even with a bigger show and elevated efficiency, MacBook Air delivers the identical nice all-day battery life as earlier than, with as much as 18 hours of video playback.
Solely with Apple silicon can there be this mix of efficiency and capabilities in such a skinny and light-weight pocket book in a fanless design.
Extra Charging Choices
MacBook Air affords various charging choices, together with an all-new 35W compact energy adapter with two USB-C ports, so customers can cost two units without delay. And for the primary time, MacBook Air helps quick charging for as much as 50 % in simply half-hour with an optionally available 67W USB-C energy adapter.4
macOS Monterey
With macOS Monterey, MacBook Air affords Continuity instruments like Common Management that make it straightforward for customers to work effortlessly throughout Mac and iPad. FaceTime consists of Portrait mode and Spatial Audio to make calls really feel extra pure and lifelike, and SharePlay permits Mac customers to have shared experiences by means of FaceTime.5 Stay Textual content and Visible Look Up use intelligence to floor helpful data, Safari consists of highly effective tab group with Tab Teams, and Shortcuts brings the convenience of automation to the Mac.
Coming this fall, macOS Ventura will take full benefit of M2, delivering new options together with Stage Supervisor, highly effective new capabilities with Continuity Digital camera, and Handoff coming to FaceTime. macOS Ventura additionally consists of massive updates to Safari, Mail, Messages, Highlight, and extra.
Designed with the Surroundings in Thoughts
The brand new MacBook Air is minimizing its affect on the setting, now utilizing one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth components in all magnets. It additionally makes use of one hundred pc recycled aluminum in its enclosure and is the primary Apple product to make use of licensed recycled metal. MacBook Air stays freed from quite a few dangerous substances, meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and makes use of wooden fiber within the packaging that comes from recycled sources or responsibly managed forests. In the present day, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and by 2030, plans to have net-zero local weather affect throughout the complete enterprise, which incorporates manufacturing provide chains and all product life cycles. Which means that each Mac Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, shall be one hundred pc carbon impartial.
Pricing and Availability
- The all-new MacBook Air shall be out there to order worldwide beginning Friday, July 8, at 5 a.m. PDT on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app. It should begin arriving to prospects, and in choose Apple Retailer areas and Apple Licensed Resellers, starting Friday, July 15.
- MacBook Air with M2, out there in midnight, starlight, silver, and house grey, begins at $1,199 (US) and $1,099 (US) for schooling. Extra technical specs can be found at apple.com/macbook-air-m2.
- Extra technical specs and particulars on Apple equipment — together with the 30W USB-C Energy Adapter for $39 (US), 35W Twin USB-C Port Compact Energy Adapter for $59 (US), 35W Twin USB-C Port Energy Adapter for $59 (US) suitable with the World Journey Adapter Package for $29 (US), and the 67W USB-C Energy Adapter for $59 (US) — can be found at apple.com/mac. The 35W Twin USB-C Port Compact Energy Adapter is offered to prospects in Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US.
- Each buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can get pleasure from a free On-line Private Session with an Apple Specialist, get their product arrange in choose shops together with assist with knowledge switch, and obtain steering on make their new Mac work the way in which they need.
- With Apple Commerce In, prospects can commerce of their present laptop and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their gadget is value.
- AppleCare+ for Mac gives skilled technical help and extra {hardware} protection from Apple, together with as much as two incidents of unintended harm safety each 12 months, every topic to a charge.
- Battery life relies on gadget settings, utilization, and different components. Precise outcomes could differ.
- These outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation MacBook Air techniques with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD.
- These outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-based MacBook Air techniques with Intel UHD Graphics 617, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD.
- Testing was performed by Apple in Could 2022 utilizing preproduction MacBook Air techniques with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. MacBook Air techniques had been examined with Apple 67W USB-C Energy Adapter (Mannequin A2518) and USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (Mannequin A2363). Quick-charge testing was performed with drained MacBook Air models. Cost time varies with settings and environmental components; precise outcomes will differ.
- Portrait mode and Spatial Audio require a Mac with Apple silicon.
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