The good news for the MacBook Air is that it gets the same M2 chip as the more expensive MacBook Pro 13-inch, which allows it to offer almost identical performance.

After ditching Intel, Apple now creates its own processor and graphics to power its Macs and MacBooks, and the results have already been spectacular, with excellent performance and industry-leading battery life.Īs we saw with the new MacBook Pro 13-inch, the M2 chip continues this, with boosted performance and once again long battery life. This is the follow-up to the impressive M1 found in the previous MacBook Air. Along with a new look, it also gets the aforementioned M2 chip. Not so the new MacBook Air (M2, 2022), however. In fact, the only MacBook to not get a redesign now is the new MacBook Pro 13-inch (M2, 2022), as mentioned earlier, which despite having the same new M2 chip, keeps its old look, and therefore feels like a bit of an afterthought. The new look follows Apple’s reinvention of many of its other iconic products, including the iMac 24-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch. Apple MacBook Air M2 2022 (13.6-inch 256GB) at Amazon for $1,099 (opens in new tab).

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