Apple has now confirmed when the M2-powered MacBook Air will be released, and hopes are high that this laptop will be better received. M2 MacBook Air, mid 2022. Apple Newsroom Pre-orders for the MacBook Air will open this Friday, July 8, with the first batch of laptops arriving on April 15. From Apple’s press release: “From Friday, July 8, at 1 p.m., it has even more performance and a new strikingly slim design, a larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a FaceTime HD 1080p camera, a four-speaker sound system, up to 18 hours of battery life, 1 and MagSafe charging. Now available in four gorgeous finishes — midnight, starlight, silver and space gray — the MacBook Air with M2 starts at £1249 and £1149 for training.” Although the base number is higher, the M2 chip is no faster than the M1 Pro or M1 Max found in the larger MacBook Pro business laptops, so the direct comparison will be with the first M1 MacBook Air, and a performance jump of about eighteen percent. One question will be whether this holds, given the throttling and performance issues faced by the M2 MacBook Pro. Another will be if Apple has reduced the effective read and write speed of SSD storage by running single SSD chips instead of pairs of SSD chips, another problem that plagues some of the M2 MacBook Pro SKUs. Will Apple finally be able to meet the demand? Supply issues have seen long lead times in the consumer electronics industry and Apple has been affected. As the populist consumer-focused laptop, this MacBook Air will no doubt be in high demand, and the timeline for delivery dates could increase quickly when pre-orders open this Friday. A popular laptop in potentially limited supply… If you want to be on the M2 train, get your tickets fast. Read now why the MacBook Pro should be ignored….
