Redesigned MacBook Air With New Starlight and Midnight Colors Revealed in First Hands-On Photos

[turbineseaplane]

Good looking colors

A few more at some point would still be welcome for sure

 

[FelixDerKater]

I'm getting feelings of PowerBook 550c nostalgia looking at this.

 

[Reason077]

I’ve got an M1 Air with the eight core GPU, 16 GB of memory and 1TB of storage.
Hoping to sell for $500-700

SOLD!

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

Like that it has:

-> 1080p camera
-> 500 nits of brightness
-> 4 speakers with Spatial Audio
-> a three mic array
-> and of course the M2 chip.

There's alot to like here.

 

[jonnysods]

I was hoping for a 12” MacBook like replacement. These things are beautiful though.

 

[Böhme417]

And here I was hoping they would ditch these new colors and bring back the old silver and space gray for the watch. Maybe they should have just added them to the watch lineup instead of replacing colors.

 

[Falhófnir]

Looks a lot like an updated version of the black polycarbonate MacBook, really hoping the 15.2" comes to fruition next year! 🤞

 

[Yorkieray]

I'm so pleased that the much predicted white bezel and keyboard are not there. Would have been a complete turn off for me.
I'm tempted to trade in my M1 MBP for the M2 MBA. This is a much better package.

 

[jimthing]

The ports aren’t Thunderbolt 4. They’re Thunderbolt 3 / USB4.

Someone explain the difference here between the ports on the MBP 14/16 machines?

New MBA M2 *and* 13 MBP M2, quote:

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

• Charging​

• DisplayPort​

• Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)​

• USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)​

• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)​

https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-air-m2/specs
https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro-13/specs

vs.

14/16 MBP M1 Pro/Max, quote:

Three Thunderbolt 4 (USB‑C) ports with support for:

• Charging​

• DisplayPort​

• Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gb/s)​

• USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)​

• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)​

https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs

The 14/16 MBP's don't have "USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)" compared to the new M2 machines

WEIRD...?

 

[Reason077]

I'm getting feelings of PowerBook 550c nostalgia looking at this.

I'm having feelings of Black Polycarbonate MacBook, circa 2006 nostalgia. One of the first Macs to ship with the Intel cpu.

 

[Apple_Robert]

The M2 Air looks great, but how does battery life compare with the M1 MacBook Air? Sounds like it might be a bit of a downgrade in battery?

Great that it has a brighter screen, though. That's pretty much the only thing that isn't perfect about my M1 Air.

Give it another hour or so, and a forum member will have a 'the M2 MBA battery sucks' thread up and running. lol

 

[Reason077]

The MBP don't have "USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)"

WEIRD...?

I believe there are some obscure technical limitations in the M1's USB implementation that prevents it from being called 10 Gb/s USB 3.1 Gen 2. Presumably they upgraded it in the M2.

Yes, obviously 40 Gb/s USB 4 is faster, but that needs a special cable.

 

[CrazyForCashews]

Oh my goodness the mad lads did it! Black bezels and keyboard, now I’ll put my money where my mouth is.

 

[alpi123]

Bummed its design doesn't match up with the iMac.

Why would the MacBook Air match the iMac design, but not the MacBook Pros design?

 

[cjgrif]

Lost its soul by not being a wedge …. Now it’s just a MacBook really.

As long as it still fits in a manila envelope it should be fine.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Why would the MacBook Air match the iMac design, but not the MacBook Pros design?

Because historically the MacBook and the Air have been more general consumer focused, just like the iMac

It's not about naming similarity as much as target market

 

[Reason077]

It's great that the M2 family are now starting there journey.

there their

 

[T Coma]

Makes more sense in a portable than desktop as color options only add to the fashion angle.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Colors are fun
I'll always take as many color options as Apple will give us

 

[wueb]

Still no SD Card. Ridiculous price tag for the spec: for 300 more you get a Pro device. Why shall I buy this Air? For some more battery life?

 

[performa_6400]

I can't stop looking at this thing. I thought moving to this design would surely make it thicker, but nope!

 

[Reason077]

Still no SD Card. Ridiculous price tag for the spec: for 300 more you get a Pro device. Why shall I buy this Air? For some more battery life?

For midnight colour obviously. Sounds like it has less battery life, not more.

 

[asdfjkl;]

That Midnight color is the bomb. We'll have to wait for the benchmarks to come out but looks like very decent performance upgrade. Totally unexpected that RAM now maxes out at 24GB. One of these would make a really decent development machine. The only thing missing is a 15" screen. Maybe next year.

 

[developer13245]

Midnight looks like its made out of plastic!

 

[mystery hill]

The only thing missing is a 15" screen.

…and support for multiple external displays.