Since Steve Jobs took out the MacBook Air from the manila envelope in 2008, this iconic apple notebook has not changed. In the opening speech held this morning, apple showed the new MacBook Air equipped with M2 chip, giving up the classic wedge shape and getting a comprehensive upgrade.
● color
What did the new MacBook Air first notice? Color. The new MacBook Air is 11 mm thick and weighs 2.7 pounds, with a more traditional shape. In addition to the familiar silver, it also has dark blue called "Midnight", "starlight" light gold, and dark space gray. Although there is no imac So many color choices, but "Midnight" is still a special dark design.
● screen
Now the screen is larger, 13.6 inches, and the screen border is narrower. The 1080p camera is hidden in a fringe. On this smaller device, the bangs seem to be a little larger than those on the MacBook Pro, but over time, it should be accepted by most people.
The display can also reach a brightness of 500 nits and support a wide P3 color gamut of 1billion colors. Both are good improvements. The verge, a foreign technology media, played with the camera a little. It looked great in Apple's brightly lit hands-on area. Apple claimed that it was twice as low light as the old air.
● ports
There are not many ports, but it is worth noting that MagSafe charging. It allows two thunderbolt ports to remain available while charging. The audio jack supports high impedance headphones, which is good. The full-size touch ID button is also a good addition.
● internal upgrades
The biggest change in the MacBook Air is the internal upgrade. If you choose to have 8-core CPU and 10 - core GPU, the performance of M2 chip is 1.4 times that of M1.
This is $100 higher than the standard m2, which has only eight GPU cores; The laptop is only equipped with 8GB unified memory by default, and the price of 16GB and 24GB configurations is $200 and $400 higher respectively.
In its keynote speech, apple said that the "video editing performance" of the M2 MacBook Air was improved by 38% and the "image filter and effect performance" was improved by 20%, but did not specify the application it used for the benchmark.
Apple also cited the "18 hour" battery life, but this number plays the video when all signals are off. I assume that the battery life of M2 is as good as that of M1 air, but 18 hours is absolutely unrealistic.
● charger
In addition to the color matched MagSafe charging cable that comes with each laptop, you can choose up to three different chargers. We saw the brand-new dual port 35W usb-c charger and a 67W usb-c fast charger above, both of which are the markup products of the 30W charger attached to the basic model. You can get any upgraded charger for an additional $20 at the time of purchase, or you can choose a higher $1499 model for free.
