Apple’s MacBook Air gets a radical design and new M2 chip

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CUPERTINO, Calif.—The MacBook Air will soon get a total design overhaul, Apple announced today. Taking the virtual stage at the company's summer developer conference, Apple representatives unveiled the new laptop, which includes the faster and more efficient M2 chip and design cues from the 24-inch iMac and the recently redesigned 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro computers.

2022 MacBook Air. (credit: Apple)

Before announcing the new MacBook Air, Apple revealed the 5 nm Apple M2 processor with four high-performance cores, four low-power efficiency cores, and a claimed 18 percent performance boost over the M1. The processor has up to a 10-core GPU, and Apple claimed up to 35 percent better graphics performance than the M1 with up to 5 GPU cores.

More specifically, Apple claimed in its announcement that the 2022 MacBook Air would be almost 40 percent faster than its predecessor in intensive workloads, like "editing complex timelines in Final Cut Pro" and up to 20 percent faster in "applying filters and effects in apps like Adobe Photoshop."

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