Apple’s M2 MacBook Air Available for Preorder Starting July 8


    
    The M2 MacBook Air starts at $1,199.?
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    Apple’s new MacBook Air with M2 chip will be available to order on Friday starting at 5 a.m. PT, the tech giant said on Wednesday. Orders are expected to start arriving at customers’ locations on July 15.?
    The M2 MacBook Air, which was unveiled in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, features the company’s next-gen Apple Silicon chip, a fanless body in four color options and a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display.?
    
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    Apple said its M2 chip brings improved speed and efficiency to the new MacBook Air. The M2 makes “intensive workloads like editing complex timelines in Final Cut Pro” nearly 40% faster than the previous generation and applying “filters and effects in apps like Adobe Photoshop” up to 20% faster, Apple said.?
    The M2 MacBook Air starts at $1,199 (£1,249, AU$1,899) with an eight-core CPU and eight-core GPU, 8GB of memory and a 256GB solid-state drive. There’s also a $1,499 version with an eight-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 8GB of memory and a 512GB SSD.?
    The redesigned laptop will be available to order on Apple’s website and in the Apple Store app. It’s available in available in four colors: silver, space gray, starlight and midnight.