It’s 11.3mm thick overall, while the previous design tapered thinner at the front, but grew to 16mm at its rear hinge. The new Air’s footprint is a hair smaller than before, and it feels slimmer. That Midnight, which appears as a matte black finish, reminds me of the old matte-black polycarbonate MacBooks of the mid-2000s, which I’ve always thought was a very sharp look. The new MacBook Air goes beyond the Pro models it mimics in one important respect - it adds new colors to the space gray and silver, with a new gold Starlight and a deep, dark Midnight finish. Read more: MacBook Pro M2 13-Inch Review: Familiar Design, New Apple M2 Chip It’s perfectly fine, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of many reasons you’d choose it over the new Air ( although there are a few). The new-for-2022 13-inch MacBook Pro adds the same M2 chip found here, but keeps the vintage 2016-era body, complete with the all-but-extinct TouchBar and 720-resolution webcam. Note that there’s still one odd man out in the lineup. The configuration we testedġ3.6-inch 2,560×1,664 LED-backlit displayĨ02.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Bluetooth 5 But that might be because I’m just so used to the classic MacBook Air design that any change feels refreshing. It’s a more modern, more constructivist design that largely rejects decorative stylization. The new version moves from that traditional tapered design to the boxier, blockier look of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops from late 2021. That still-available 2020 M1 MacBook Air, one of the first set of Macs to move from Intel to Apple Silicon, is not a bad-looking machine, but it’s based on a design that launched in 2018, which is roughly forever ago in computer terms. In 2020, the Air switched from Intel chips to Apple’s own M1 chips, but without a physical redesign. That’s when the Air gained modern features like a higher-res screen and fingerprint reader. The latest MacBook Air represents the biggest overall change to the product line, arguably since 2008, but at least since 2018. That somewhat mitigates the price increase on the new version, but you’re inevitably going to be drawn to the new design and features. New power adapter is a paid upgrade on some configsĪnd yes, it’s good that the previous M1 Air, with an older design, remains available at $999.More expensive than the model it replaces.
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