Apple Now Taking Orders for Macbook Air With M2 Chip

<p>Apple is now taking orders for the redesigned <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;apple&period;com&sol;macbook-air-m2&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">MacBook Air with M2<&sol;a>&comma; and the company says the new laptop will begin arriving at customers worldwide on Friday&comma; July 15&period; Powered by Apple&&num;8217&semi;s own M2 chip&comma; the all-new MacBook Air features even more performance and a new strikingly thin design&comma; a larger 13&period;6-inch Liquid Retina display&comma; a 1080p FaceTime HD camera&comma; a four-speaker sound system&comma; up to 18 hours of battery life&comma; and MagSafe charging&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now available in four finishes — midnight&comma; starlight&comma; silver&comma; and space gray — MacBook Air with M2 starts at <strong>&dollar;1&comma;199<&sol;strong> &lpar;US&rpar; and <strong>&dollar;1&comma;099<&sol;strong> &lpar;US&rpar; for education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"pagebody-header">New Design Enabled by M2<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<p>Completely reimagined around M2&comma; MacBook Air has a new design that is remarkably thin from every angle&period; With a durable&comma; all-aluminum unibody enclosure that feels incredibly solid and is built to last&comma; it measures just 11&period;3 millimeters thin&comma; is only 2&period;7 pounds&comma; and delivers an astonishing 20 percent reduction in volume from the previous generation&period; And with the power efficiency of M2&comma; all of the capabilities of MacBook Air are built into a silent&comma; fanless design&period; In addition to silver and space gray&comma; MacBook Air is now available in two stunning new finishes&colon; midnight and starlight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MagSafe gives users a dedicated charging port that is easy to connect to while protecting MacBook Air when it is plugged in&period; MacBook Air also features two Thunderbolt ports for connecting a variety of accessories&comma; and a 3&period;5 mm audio jack with support for high-impedance headphones&period; Additionally&comma; the Magic Keyboard features a full-height function row with Touch ID&comma; and a spacious&comma; industry-leading Force Touch trackpad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new MacBook Air features a 13&period;6-inch Liquid Retina display&comma; which has been expanded closer to the sides and up around the camera to make room for the menu bar&period; The result is a larger display with much thinner borders&comma; giving users more screen real estate to view their content in vivid detail&period; At 500 nits of brightness&comma; it is also 25 percent brighter than before&period; MacBook Air now supports 1 billion colors&comma; so photos and movies look incredibly vibrant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">The M2 chip starts the next generation of Apple silicon for the Mac&comma; taking the breakthrough performance&comma; power efficiency&comma; and capabilities of M1 even further&period; From multitasking to creating captivating images&comma; MacBook Air with M2 is everything users could want in the world’s best-selling notebook&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>MacBook Air with M2 features a more powerful 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU&comma; so users can get more done faster&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>With 100GB&sol;s of unified memory bandwidth and support for up to 24GB of fast unified memory&comma; it can handle even larger and more complex workloads&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>M2 also adds a next-generation media engine with a powerful ProRes video engine for hardware-accelerated encode and decode&comma; so MacBook Air with M2 can play back more streams of 4K and 8K video than before&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>With M2&comma; intensive workloads like editing complex timelines in Final Cut Pro are nearly 40 percent faster than the previous generation&comma; and up to 15x faster for customers who haven’t upgraded to Apple silicon&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Applying filters and effects in apps like Adobe Photoshop is up to 20 percent faster than before&comma; and up to 5x faster for customers who haven’t yet upgraded to Apple silicon&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"pagebody-copy">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>And even with a larger display and increased performance&comma; MacBook Air delivers the same great all-day battery life as before&comma; with up to 18 hours of video playback&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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