Apple’s redesigned MacBook Air with the M2 chip, which was not too long ago revealed at WWDC 2022 and has been keenly awaited since, will supposedly go on sale come July 15.
That’s the phrase from MacRumors (opens in new tab), which cited a retail supply for this contemporary information on the discharge schedule for the MacBook Air (M2, 2022).
As ever, we will’t deal with this as something concrete, however MacRumors is among the extra reliable Apple-focused websites on the market, and the date does match with what we’ve heard beforehand – specifically that the brand new MacBook Air will arrive sooner or later in July.
Assuming the July 15 date is on the cash, pre-orders will presumably go stay considerably earlier than that date. July 8 is the pre-order date MacRumors is anticipating (and per week beforehand is sensible, in fact).
For those who’re interested by grabbing your self a shiny new M2-powered MacBook Air, then we’ve received a devoted web page linking by way of to all the primary retailers set to promote the laptop computer (Apple included) that will help you get that pre-order in sharpish (hopefully within the very close to future, by the sound of issues).
Pricing for the MacBook Air M2 begins at $1,199 / £1,249 for the entry-level mannequin with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD.
Evaluation: Slower SSD difficulty may also have an effect on the MacBook Air M2?
Every week tomorrow, then, we might see pre-orders going stay for the MacBook Air, and there’ll be fairly a rush on for this new mannequin, little doubt. It’s a serious redesign that makes the Air lighter and thinner than its predecessor, but with a bigger display screen, very a lot in distinction to the MacBook Professional 13-inch with M2 chip that was additionally unveiled at WWDC 2022, which didn’t change a lot (and is already on the market).
Talking of that MacBook Professional M2, you might need seen that we not too long ago discovered that the SSD on the entry-level mannequin is definitely slower than the solid-state drive within the M1-toting MacBook Professional. Why? It’s as a result of Professional M2’s drive having a single 256GB NAND chip, versus a pair of 128GB chips in parallel with the M1, with the latter offering higher efficiency ranges.
The query many would-be MacBook Air patrons are actually asking is: will the M2 model of this new laptop computer undergo from the identical SSD difficulty? Word that it’s simply with the entry-level MacBook Professional M2 that Apple has gone this route with the storage (to save cash), and better tier fashions are apparently unaffected.
So, if Apple has additionally taken this identical strategy with the MacBook Air M2, that’d be a doable motive to present the entry-level mannequin a swerve (although relying in your use case, the slower SSD could not have any noticeable impact in real-world utilization, anyhow). Another excuse to take a look at the upper tier fashions is that inventory is prone to be extra strong, as we anticipate the most affordable mannequin will probably be topic to one thing of a stampede of patrons initially (SSD points or not, frankly).
