The MKBHD M2 MacBook Air review landed today, after a flurry of earlier reviews last week. The overall tone is extremely positive, Brownlee praising the design, performance, and battery-life.
He does, however, warn that it’s really a $1,500 purchase, and that while the Midnight color is beautiful, it’s also a fingerprint magnet – and is easily scratched …
MKBHD M2 MacBook Air review
Brownlee says that the new design is better in every way.
To [Apple’s] credit, they have changed and updated mostly everything about this design and for the better. The wedge shape used to taper to appear and feel thinner at the edges, but now the whole thing is flat. It’s 11 millimeters all the way across, which is actually thinner overall and I really like it this way. This is one of those shapes that you just feel like you can pick up and take everywhere, truly ultra portable.
Battery-life means you never need think about charging it midway through a day.
It’s a very long-lasting laptop […] The 15 hours of claimed web browsing translated for me to an entire workday of use with 20 plus percent left.
He says having both USB-C ports on the same side is a pain-point, but the biggest thing to know are the two drawbacks of the new Midnight color.
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