Apple's 15-inch 'MacBook Air' with M2 chip has appeared, the world's thinnest as a 15-inch notebook

During the keynote speech of WWDC23 held on June 6, 2023, a new 15.3-inch MacBook Air was announced. Apple silicon is equipped with the M2 chip announced in June 2022. The existing models of MacBook Air were two types, '13.6-inch M2-equipped model' and '13.3-inch M1-equipped model', so the 15.3-inch MacBook Air announced this time has achieved a large screen.

13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M2 - Apple (Japan)
https://www.apple.com/jp/macbook-air-13-and-15-m2/

WWDC23-Apple Developer
https://developer.apple.com/jp/wwdc23/

WWDC 2023 — June 5 | Apple-YouTube


The first announcement of WWDC23 is the '15-inch MacBook Air'.

At just 11.5mm thin, Apple claims it's the world's thinnest 15-inch notebook. .

It weighs about 1.5kg.

Rechargeable with MagSafe.

Equipped with two Thunderbolt ports. There is also an earphone jack.

There are four colors, from left to right: Space Gray, Silver, Midnight, Starlight.

The display bezel is only 5mm.

The display is a 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display with a resolution of 2880 x 1864 pixels and a pixel density of 224 ppi.

The maximum brightness is 500 nits, and the color display supports 1 billion colors. It also has True Tone technology.

The in-camera is 1080p, and the image during video calls is beautiful.

Equipped with a 3-microphone array, your voice during a call can be delivered loud and clear to the other party.

Equipped with 6 speakers including a force canceling woofer.

The processing chip is equipped with the M2 announced at WWDC22 in 2022. The M2 specs are an 8-core CPU with 4 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and a memory bandwidth of 100GB/s.

Up to 12 times faster than MacBook Air with Intel CPU.

Battery life is 18 hours.

Computing performance is twice as fast as a 15-inch Windows laptop.

The display is 25% brighter and has twice the resolution.

Battery life is said to be 50% longer.

The price starts at $ 1199 (about 167,000 yen), and in Japan, the model with 256 GB of storage is 198,800 yen including tax, and the model with 512 GB is 226,800 yen including tax.

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Release date is June 13th.

In addition, sales of the M1-equipped model will continue.