It happened - the MacBook Air is now available in a highly-anticipated 15-inch size. That's 15.3-inch to be precise, and Apple says the new Retina display has 500 nits of brightness and 1 billion colors. The bezels around the screen are a thin 5mm, and there's a 1080p camera fitted in a notch.
The 15-inch Air is 11.5mm thin and weighs
just 1.496kg. Apple will offer the new machine in four colors - midnight,
starlight, space gray, and silver. The 15-inch MacBook Air packs an M2 chip,
just like the 13-inch model, with an 8-core CPU (4 performance and 4 efficient
cores), a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. The laptop starts with 8GB
of unified memory but can be configured with up to 24GB. The M2 chip will allow
the 15-inch Air to for up to 18 hours on a charge.
If you want Apple's usual ambiguous
comparisons, the new 15-inch MacBook Air is 12x faster than the 'fastest
Intel-based MacBook Air', and twice as fast as the 'best-selling 15-inch PC
laptop with a Core i7 processor'. The MacBook Air 15-inch has two USB-C
Thunderbolt ports, a MagSafe charging port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The
laptop packs 3 microphones, and 6 speakers.
You can order the 15-inch Air today,
starting from US$ 1,299 (US$ 1,199 for eduction). Shipments will begin next week.
