hey everybody it's time for the verge we
are here at apple park we're in the
steve jobs theater for the first time in
many years to go hands-on with the new
m2 powered macbook air
apple's redesigned this laptop the
famous wedge shape is gone it's more of
a traditional slab shape comes in two
fun new colors starlight and midnight in
addition to silver and space gray
honestly this computer is beautiful to
hold it's 11 millimeters thin weighs 2.7
pounds
it's incredibly thin and light in the
hand i might just be excited because we
actually get to do a hands-on in person
for the first time in so long but i'm
pretty sure this computer is incredibly
nice to hold inside you have the m2 chip
which has an 8 core cpu and a 10 core
gpu apple says that in things like
photoshop it'll be 1.4 times faster than
the outgoing m1 air apple's also quoting
an 18-hour battery life but that's just
video playback time so we'll have to see
what its actual battery life in real
world use is obviously the m1 did great
lasted all day i would expect nothing
less from this m2 air ports wise the big
addition here is the magsafe port on the
side that lets you use both thunderbolt
ports here while you're charging the
computer on the other side you've got a
headphone jack love that it now supports
high impedance headphones the display is
a little bit bigger at 13.6 inches it's
500 minutes of brightness now supports
p3 wide color gamut that gets you a
billion colors the display bezel is also
a little bit reduced than before that's
getting out to the edges because you've
got a notch at the top for the camera
the camera is 1080p apple says it's
obviously a big improvement over the
outgoing air with twice the low light
performance the outgoing air had a
horrible camera so any step up here is
bound to seem huge it looks beautiful
here in the well lit steve drops theater
we will have to see what it actually
looks like when we get a review unit the
keyboard here is apple's very familiar
scissor key keyboard full height
switches touch id on the side obviously
apple makes great track pads you're also
looking at four speakers and beam
forming mics inside this thing which
apple says will greatly improve video
conferencing quality very hard to tell
in this noisy room full of all these
people we'll have to test that when we
get a review unit i gotta say my
favorite update to the m2 macbook air
though might be the charging situation
the base model comes with a 30 watt
single port usbc charger very familiar
but you can pay 20 bucks more to upgrade
to either a dual usb c port 35 watt
charger or a single port 67 watt fast
charger that'll take you from zero to 50
percent in just 30 minutes
as far as pricing the base model is
11.99 that comes with eight gigs of ram
256 gigs of storage and a lonely
single usb c port 30 watt charger you
can step up to the 1499 configuration
that gets you 512 gigs of storage and
that 35 watt dual usb c charger
obviously you can also configure this
thing online to your heart's desire
price it way up in the stratosphere but
those are the two stock convicts
that is the m2 macbook air that's not
the only m2 computer in apple's lineup
the 13-inch macbook pro has also been
updated to the m2 and for some bizarre
reason it still has a touch bar i don't
know why but it does