Apple has revealed the long-rumored 15.3-inch MacBook Air (2023) at its WWDC 2023 developer conference. It comes with the M2 chip and starts at $1,299 ($1,199 for education use) / £1,399 (£1,289 for education use) / AU$2,199 (AU$1,999), and it looks set to jump straight onto our list of the best MacBooks and Macs. The current 13-inch MacBook Air model didn't receive a refresh, but it did get a price cut of $100 in the US.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claimed that a 15-inch Air would be one of several new MacBooks launched at the event. And other reports suggested that stock of the 15-inch MacBook Air was already making its way into stores even before the model had been revealed.
Apple claims that it's the "world’s best" and "world's thinnest" 15-inch laptop with a Liquid Retina display, an 11.5mm thickness, a 3.5mm bezel, and weighs three pounds. Its port selection includes a MagSafe port for charging, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and comes in several colors including Midnight and Starlight.
While we don't have exact performance right now, the specs for the 15.3 MacBook Air are impressive. It comes with an 8-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU for blazing-fast graphics, and a 16-core Neural Engine. Its M2 silicon delivers 100GB/s of memory bandwidth and supports up to 24GB of unified memory.
The laptop also comes with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, a six-speaker sound system, an 18-hour battery life, a fanless and quiet design, and 500 nits of brightness. And, according to Apple, it's 12x faster than the fastest Intel MacBook Air.
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