WWDC 2023: Apple introduces the new 15″ MacBook Air, M2 processor and US$1,499 price

The new macbook air It presents a new 15.3-inch screen -compared to the 13 of the previous generation- and offers a performance of up to 18 hours of autonomy thanks to its new M2 chip, developed by Manzana.

The company has unveiled this and other devices within the framework of the World Conference for developers (WWDC 2023), which took place this Monday and could be seen online.

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MacBook Air is a laptop with a high-resolution 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display capable of up to 500 nits of brightness and support for 1 billion colors.

15-inch MacBook Air. (Manzana/)

Weighing 1.5 kg, it is available in different finishes – midnight, star white, space gray and silver – and offers a resolution of up to 6K. At the battery level, Apple has said that it will have a range of up to 18 hours, but in practice the figure could be less.

Its CPU is 8-core with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. In addition, the M2 chip provides 100 GB/s of memory bandwidth and supports up to 24 GB of high-speed unified memory.

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This laptop also introduces a FaceTime HD camera at 1,080p and an audio system with six speakers -two of them are treble and the other two are bass- and three microphones, which capture sound thanks to the use of advanced beamforming algorithms.

Apple has also commented that MacBook Air works with macOS Sonoma, which will arrive at the end of the year and that it introduces new options to customize widgets and screensavers, improvements to play with Game Mode, powerful video call features, among other novelties.

15-inch MacBook Air. (Manzana/)

This laptop can be reserved from this Monday in the official Apple store and in the App Store. Its price starts at $1,499 and, if you choose the smallest size (13 inches), it is possible to buy it for $1,099.

In addition to releasing the new M2 chip, the brand also offers these models with an M1 processor. The 13-inch MacBook Air with M1 chip, available in gold, silver and space gray, remains at $999.

Source: Elcomercio