Description
MacBook Air. Redesigned. Redefined.
Completely redesigned around the Apple M2 chip, MacBook Air offers improved performance and capabilities and all-day battery life in a silent, fanless design. Enjoy a gorgeous 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, an immersive four-speaker sound system, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and a choice of four beautiful finishes. It’s thinner, lighter, and faster—and everything you want in MacBook Air.
Key Features
- M2 chip with next-generation CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
- Faster 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU to power through complex tasks5
- 16-core Neural Engine for advanced machine learning tasks
- Up to 24GB of faster unified memory makes everything you do super fluid
- Up to 20 percent faster for applying image filters and effects5
- Up to 40 percent faster for editing complex video timelines5
- Go all day with up to 18 hours of battery life3
- Fanless design for silent operation
- 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and P3 wide color for vibrant images and incredible detail6
- 1080p FaceTime HD camera with twice the resolution and low-light performance
- Three-microphone array focuses on your voice instead of what’s going on around you
- Four-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio for an immersive listening experience
- Share content seamlessly between iPhone and Mac
- MagSafe charging port, two Thunderbolt ports, and headphone jack
- Backlit Magic Keyboard and Touch ID for secure unlock and payments
- Fast Wi-Fi 6 wireless connectivity
- Superfast SSD storage launches apps and opens files in an instant
- macOS Monterey lets you connect, share, and create like never before—across all your Apple devices
- Available in midnight, starlight, space gray, and silver
Features
Portable Design
- Built around M2, the strikingly thin design is just .44 inches
- The most portable Mac notebook, weighing just 2.7 pounds
- Fanless design delivers completely silent operation
- Available in midnight, starlight, space gray, and silver
Apple M2 Chip
- 8-core CPU speeds through tasks like exporting a video for the web
- Up to a 10-core GPU delivers a big boost in graphics performance
- 16-core Neural Engine can process up to 15.8 trillion operations per second, over 40 percent more than M1
- SSD storage speeds are blazing fast, so tasks like previewing massive, high-res images are quick and fluid
- Supports 8GB, 16GB, and 24GB of fast unified memory that can be accessed by the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine
- Next-generation media engine supports ProRes, so you can play back up to 11 streams of 4K or up to two streams of 8K ProRes video
- Applying filters and effects in apps like Photoshop is up to 20 percent faster than before, and a massive five times faster for users who haven’t upgraded to Apple silicon1
- Intensive workloads like editing complex timelines in Final Cut Pro are nearly 40 percent faster than on MacBook Air with M12
All-Day Battery Life
- Get up to 15 hours of wireless web to power through your day, and up to 18 hours of Apple TV app movie playback3
- Fast-charge up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes4
Liquid Retina Display
- Brilliant 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display offers more space for all your content
- Features over 4 million pixels so text is sharp and images have incredible detail
- With 500 nits, the display is 25 percent brighter than before
- Support for 1 billion colors and P3 wide color offers extremely vibrant photos and movies
- True Tone technology delivers a more comfortable viewing experience by matching the color temperature of the display to the ambient light
1080p FaceTime HD Camera
- Get twice the resolution and low-light performance of the previous generation MacBook Air
- M2 brings Apple’s most advanced image signal processor to MacBook Air, so you’ll look great on video calls
Immersive Four-Speaker Sound System
- Four-speaker sound system produces amazing stereo separation and vocal clarity for immersive audio
- Spatial Audio support enhances music and movies with Dolby Atmos
- Three-mic array captures clean audio using advanced beamforming, so you’ll sound great wherever you are
Magic Keyboard and Touch ID
- Backlit Magic Keyboard provides a comfortable, quiet typing experience, and a full-height function row
- Pre-programmed shortcuts put common functions right at your fingertips, including Spotlight, Dictation and Siri, and Do Not Disturb
- Use Apple Pay or log in with Touch ID, and a press of the Touch ID sensor instantly locks your screen
Powerful and Versatile Connectivity
- MagSafe 3 port for charging with quick-release magnetic connection, and cables match the color of the finish
- With two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, you get charging, data transfer, and video out on a single connector
- Supports one external display with up to 6K resolution
Best-In Class Secuirty
- Enables secure boot and automatic encryption, so everything stored on MacBook Air stays safe
Essential Additions
- AppleCare+ for Mac, USB-C to Lightning Cable, USB-C to USB Adapter
- 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter so you can charge two devices at the same time
- 67W USB-C Power Adapter for fast-charging
Footnotes:
- 1 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 24GB of RAM, as well as production MacBook Air systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16GB of RAM, all configured with 2TB SSD, as well as production 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-based MacBook Air systems with Intel UHD Graphics 617, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. Adobe Photoshop 23.3.1 tested using the following filters and functions: Emboss, Minimum, Sharpen Edges, Rotate Image, and Ripple. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air.
- 2 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 24GB of RAM, as well as production MacBook Air systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16GB of RAM, all configured with 2TB SSD. Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 tested using a complex 2-minute project with 4K ProRes 422 media. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air
- 3 Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/batteries for more information.
- 4 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. MacBook Air systems tested with Apple 67W USB-C Power Adapter (Model A2518) and USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (Model A2363). Fast-charge testing conducted with drained MacBook Air units. Charge time varies with settings and environmental factors; actual results will vary.
- 5 Compared with previous generation.
- 6 The display on the 13.6-inch MacBook Air has rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 13.6 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).