Apple Store Back Up With Previews of New M2 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, Preorders Next Month

[MacRumors]

Following today's keynote event that saw the introduction of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, watchOS 9, and new M2 Macs, Apple has brought its online store back up with information on the new machines.

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The M2 MacBook Air and M2 13-inch MacBook Pro cannot be purchased at this time, but the product listings are live. Apple plans to make them available starting next month.

The M2 MacBook Air features a redesigned chassis that does away with the tapered design, and it is quite similar to the MacBook Pro. It comes in Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and Midnight. Contrary to rumors, it does not feature white bezels or a white keyboard, and there is a notch.

Pricing on the new MacBook Air starts at $1199 for an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU, with a 10-core GPU option available for $1499.

Apple today also refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 chip, and pricing starts at $1299. There are no design updates for the 13-inch model, and it continues to be the only Mac notebook with a Touch Bar.

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[ZacUSNYR]

8GB starting with a $200 8GB bump is insulting.

 

[reyesmac]

Great deals if you are downgrading from always paying above $2k for macbook pros. On the low end side of things its still costs $400 more to get one with 16gig ram/500gig hard drive. But compared to macbook pros, it could be worse.

The M1 model can be equipped this way for $1,400 which is a $200 price drop from yesterday. For a computer already a year old and outclassed by the computer that would normally have replaced it entirely. Its only a good deal for Apple. Either way, the house wins. Best discount you can get is hoping someone dropped on on the way out of an Apple store. Because paying Apple for performance (talking about ram and disk space specifically) the Apple tax is officially $400 above retail.

 

[jz0309]

Not liking the new MBA design, my M1 MBA will serve me a looong time…

 

[haydn!]

£250 price bump in the UK for the M2, with a M1 in the old design at the old price point of £999 still available. Ouch.

 

[CC77]

Thankful there's not a white notch but the 8GB and price jump is rude

 

[Rychiar]

for the love of god just call it a MacBook and kill the air name for good🙄🙄

 

[jav6454]

8GB starting with a $200 8GB bump is insulting.

Agreed. They should have made it at minimum 12GB for the MBP

 

[tschunde]

Only 60hz display? Or ProMotion with 120hz?

 

[symphony]

After owning the base model M1 MacBook Air, I realized 256GB for storage and 8GB of RAM is not enough at all.

I can’t wait to rectify my decisions.

 

[ilikewhey]

24gb is such a weird spec, never seen it in any previous laptop, it is a hardware limitation such as triple channel or apple don't want the m2 to get into the m1 pro territory.

 

[Trik]

Not supporting dual displays on the new MBA is really a miss IMO.

 

[rpat701]

Did I see that they went back to Magsafe? WTF?!

 

[rpmurray]

No larger iMac. Apple disappoints again. I guess I have to wait for the next event.

 

[indask8]

Looks like they have discontinued the 8 GPU cores M1 macbook air, on the Apple store (France) I can select the M2 Air with 8/10 GPU cores, but not the M1 with 8 GPU cores, only 7.

 

[Nik]

The new MacBook Air will be shipping in September 2023.

 

[Orange Bat]

I was considering getting one, but the price increase may have killed the deal for me. I need 16GB and 512GB storage, That upgrade puts me in 14 inch Pro territory. Perhaps an M1 MBA is still a better deal for me.

 

[calstanford]

24gb is such a weird spec, never seen it in any previous laptop, it is a hardware limitation such as triple channel or apple don't want the m2 to get into the m1 pro territory.

24 GB is plenty. By the time you really need more you'll easily want to upgrade to an M4 or M5

 

[petsk]

2 139€ for 512/16 GB, what a joke 😂 One store in my vicinity had the MBP 14 for 2 095€ last month.

 

[freedomlinux]

24gb is such a weird spec, never seen it in any previous laptop

Eh, I've seen that in PC "ultrabooks" before, where they will have 4GB/8GB soldered onboard, and a DIMM slot. So you end up with configurations like 4+8, 8+16, 8+32, etc. I guess dual-channel just isn't a thing

 

[KPOM]

Still only Thunderbolt 3, and only 1 external display supported.

 

[FloatingBones]

The 13" M2 MBP still has touchbar, and it lacks a MagSafe connector. In short, it looks like they still have NOT done a redesign on that model. Apple: if touchbar is dead, stop putting it on #!$$ new products.

 

[jdb8167]

24 GB/1 TB, Midnight, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU. Gimme. Apple will give me a paltry $540 for my current 16 GB/1 TB M1 MBA but I will probably still take it.

 

[KPOM]

I was considering getting one, but the price increase may have killed the deal for me. I need 16GB and 512GB storage, That upgrade puts me in 14 inch Pro territory. Perhaps an M1 MBA is still a better deal for me.

Consider saving $100 by getting the model with the 8-core GPU.

 

[ondert]

What’s this now? They advertised as if new model starts from 999$. It’s not a good deal with new pricing.