The speakers sound good-just not as full or as rich to my ears as on the MacBook Pro. The speakers are almost invisible unless you’re really looking for them. The speakers sit between the laptop lid and the keyboard and spray the audio at the display where it bounces off, and back into your ears. If you do a lot of video calls, expect to see a tangible improvement in video quality thanks to this webcam’s boosted resolution.Īnother design change unique to the new Air: The stereo speaker grilles on either side of the keyboard have been replaced by four speakers. That bests the webcam quality on the new MacBook Pro 2022, and brings Apple in line with the vast majority of PC competition. Unfortunately, that design led to the addition of a controversial iPhone-like “notch” to accommodate the webcam.įortunately, the webcam on the MacBook Air 2022 finally jumps from 720p to 1080p resolution. But the screen squeaks far into the corners of the chassis, leaving thin bezels all around.

The larger 13.6-inch display (more on that later) doesn’t meaningfully impact the Air’s footprint-this model has the same width, but measures a mere 0.1-inch deeper than before. The Apple logo on the lid is bigger, and the words MacBook Air are gone from the bottom of the display. The overall industrial design of the laptop comes now matches the latest MacBook Pro series. The combination of thin and light has always been the Air’s calling card and this model retains that mantle. It's remarkably light, too, coming in at 2.7 pounds, down by. The new Air measures just 0.44 inches thick, as compared to the previous generation’s variable thickness that ranged from 0.16-inch at the edges to 0.63 inch at its thickest.Īpple MacBook Air with M2 chip in Starlight finish. The effect is to make the entire laptop look super-thin, not just at the edges. Now, the lid is completely flat and uniform in thickness, with a steeper curve on the underside of the laptop than before. Gone are the tapered edges on the lid, which always made the Air look slimmer than the competition. The MacBook Air has always been a looker, but it’s never looked as good as it does now.

Price: From $1,199 | CPU: Apple M2 with 8 core CPU, 8-core or 10-core GPU | Display: 13.6-inch, 2,560 x 1,664 pixels, 224 pixels per inch, 500 nits | Memory: 8/16/24GB | Storage: 256GB/512GB/1TB/2TB | Battery life: Up to 18 hours | Weight: 2.7 pounds | Dimensions: 11.97 x 8.46 x 0.44 inches | Colors: Silver, Space Gray, Midnight, Starlight Apple MacBook Air 2022 (M2 Processor) Technical Specifications

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