![]() ![]() The new MacBook Air body looks much sleeker, nicer and more contemporary, with the same rounded edges as the 16-inch MacBook Pro range in a smaller package. It was thin, wedge-shaped and sorta looked like you could use it to cut a soft cheese if you were in a bind at a party. It’s those MacBook Air owners that Apple is trying to entice with these M2 models, not M1 owners, given it’s such a modest performance improvement over the last generation (generally only around 1.5 times faster). Those numbers are darn good, and Apple’s internal testing shows that the M2 MacBook Air is 5-to-24 times faster than the old Intel MacBook Airs. Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro OpenCL score M2 MacBook Pro: 26820.Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro multi-core score M2 MacBook Pro: 8820.Geekbench 5.4.5 Pro single-core score M2 MacBook Pro: 1936.In terms of benchmarking, it’s almost exactly the same as the M2 MacBook Pro 13-inch, which makes sense, since it is exactly the same and the Geekbench benchmarking doesn’t do a long-term stress test, which is where the differences would be. That’s not the top spec or the top price, but unless I tried to kick out a big Final Cut project or play The Sims for more than a couple of hours, I really didn’t feel like I was being constrained at all. The M2 MacBook Air model I reviewed had an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GBs of Unified Memory and a 1TB SSD, which puts the price up to $2,949. That means it has the same power up front, but can’t quite sustain it for long periods of time. The M2 MacBook Air has all the internals of the M2 MacBook Pro (from $1,999), but with a bit less room for cooling. Most small and light computers are small and light first, and computers second. Sure, it doesn’t have the sustained power of the M2 MacBook Pro, but it does have a redesigned body that makes it better to hold and includes MagSafe, my beloved.īut, with all that said, is it worth somewhere between $1,900-$3,850, depending on the configuration you choose when there are cheaper options available? M2 MacBook Air power A computer this size almost shouldn’t be able to be this powerful, it goes against everything you expect, and is utterly delightful. Now, however, this new M2 MacBook Air (from $1,899) is ridiculously powerful. A touch underpowered for the price, perhaps, but small, light and had enough grunt to allow you to get your work done while being ultra-portable the Mac you got when you didn’t need to do anything complicated. The humble MacBook Air used to be a kind of Chromebook competitor on steroids. ![]()
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