Apple’s MacBook Air gets a radical design and new M2 chip
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/apples-macbook-air-gets-a-radical-design-and-new-m2-chip/
CUPERTINO, Calif.—The MacBook Air will be 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 both the 24-inch iMac and the recently redesigned 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro computers.
Before announcing the new 13.6-inch MacBook Air, Apple revealed the 5 nm M2 processor with 4 high-performance cores, four low-power efficiency cores, and a claimed 18% performance boost over the M1. The processor has up to a 10-core GPU, and Apple claimed up to 35% better graphics performance than the M1.