Apple have announced their all new 15-inch MacBook Air, which they say is the best 15-inch laptop in the world. Not only do you get a beautiful 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display to lay your eyes upon but you also get the amazing performance that comes with Apple’s M2 chip, up to 18 hours of battery on a single charge, and finally it is also dead silent, thanks to its fanless design.

Just hearing all of these laptops performance stats you could think that it has to be huge to be able to fit all of the hardware inside, needed to achieve this, but all of this is shoved flawlessly into the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop. 

The perks that this laptop comes with doesn’t just stop there though because it also features a brand new six-speaker sound system, Spatial Audio, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, MagSafe charging and lastly of course the power and ease that you experience from the macOS Ventura. You’ll be able to order this new MacBook Air now already and then their availability will later begin on June 13th. 

The Amazing Liquid Retina Display

This all new 15-inch MacBook Air, features quite a spacious feeling high-resolution 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display, which means that as a user you’ll be able to see a lot more content. This display is also capable of brightnesses of up to 500 nits and also has support for 1 billion colours, which really makes this display absolutely brilliant to use to look at content in a new rich and vibrant way, with text that is razor sharp. This laptop by Apple has twice the resolution and is also 25 percent brighter than most other laptops that are in this same category. 

The Gorgeous, Thin Exterior

This new MacBook Air is even thinner than previous generations and now measures in at only 11.5mm thin, which makes it the thinnest 15-inch laptop in the world. The laptop is also quite lightweight and weighs in at 3.3 pounds, which makes this laptop even more portable than before. Even though this laptop is extremely thin and has quite an expansive display, the new MacBook Air is very durable and quite solid. 

Looking at the exterior of this laptop a little more you will also notice that it also features MagSafe charging, two Thunderbolt ports that allows you to connect your accessories as well as an external display of up to 6K, and finally a 3.5mm headphone jack as well to give you more connectivity options. The MacBook Air is available in four colours at the moment, and those are midnight, starlight, space grey and finally silver. 

The Incredible Performance and Top-Notch Battery Life

Thanks to the M2 chip, from Apple, that this new MacBook Air is equipped with, it has incredible performance. If you have even the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air then it may be time for you to consider upgrading because this new 15-inch MacBook Air is 12 times faster than your MacBook. Even if you have one of the best-selling 15-Inch PC laptops out there, with a Core i7 processor, this new MacBook Air is up to twice as fast and is also probably a lot more portable. Not only does it have amazing performance but it is able to keep this performance up for up to 18 hours, which is 50 percent more than that same PC laptop. 

The MacBook Air also comes with a very powerful 8-core CPU, which is made up of four performance cores and four efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU for superb fast graphics and finally a 16-core Neural Engine. Multitasking and working with complex workloads has never been easier thanks to this M2 chip, which is able to provide you with 100GB/s of memory bandwidth and even 24GB of fast unified memory. So thanks to the M2 chip in this laptop, it makes it perfect for users that need to work, play or create almost anything, anywhere. 

The Gorgeous Camera and Sound System

The new Apple MacBook Air comes with a gorgeous 1080p FaceTime HD camera and is just perfect for FaceTime calls as well as video conferencing. The camera is absolutely amazing, but further paired with the processing power that you get from the advanced image signal processor on the M2 chip, all users will look amazing to anyone during their video calls. Not only will you look great but you’ll also sound great thanks to the three-mic array, which is able to capture clean audio with the help of some advanced beamforming algorithms and ensure that you come through loud and crystal clear on your calls. 

Within the new design of the MacBook Air, you’ll also get an incredible six-speaker sound system that has two tweeters and then two sets of force-cancelling woofers integrated smoothly into the laptop. Not only does this new system give you double the bass depth for a fuller sound experience but it also has Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos. So thanks to all of these upgrades to the speakers, the MacBook Air will be able to provide you with a more immersive experience, whether you’re listening to music or watching a video. 

Environmentally Friendly

The new MacBook Air isn’t just great for you but it is actually also great for the environment as it now uses 100 percent recycled gold plating and tin soldering in multiple printed circuit boards as well as 100 percent recycled rare earth elements inside all of the magnets in the laptop. It doesn’t just stop there though because the MacBook Air even uses 100 percent recycled cobalt in its MagSafe connector as well as 90 percent recycled steel in its battery tray. Apple has kept the environment in mind in the past when designing their products and that’s why they have quite high standards for energy efficiency, which this MacBook definitely meets as it is free from mercury, PVC and beryllium. Apple has a goal to have all plastic removed from their packaging by 2025, and with this product they are brought one step closer thanks to its packaging, which is 99 percent fibre based. 

Final Words

So, with all of these awesome features that you get with the new 15-inch MacBook Air, the only thing that could be stopping you is the price. However, with a starting price of $1,299, it really isn’t that absurd considering that the overall performance is a lot better than most other laptops in the premium range, that already cost this much anyways. 

Leo Beamers is an aspiring car collector born and raised just outside of the city in Cape Town and his interests include gaming, fast cars and enjoys cycling on the weekends.

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