Apple has revamped its entry-level MacBook Air, boosting its performance with a new M2 processor, losing the famous tapered edge, and adding the notch from the MacBook Pro.
At its WWDC 2022 keynote, Apple announced the second Apple Silicon version of the MacBook Air. Apple’s most popular notebook was among the first models released during the company’s two-year transition from Intel processors, but its external design was physically the same as its predecessor.
That external design was first introduced in 2018, and marked the third significant iteration of the MacBook Air. Now there’s a fourth version, with a brand-new design that retains the slimness, but loses the familiar tapered front edge. Even so, it’s still 11mm thin.
The lack of a tapered edge does mean that the typing angle is no longer better than it is on the MacBook Pro. However, it should also mean that the new MacBook Air has sufficient ventilation that it can run at its top performance speed, for longer.
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