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Apple MacBook Air (M2, 2022) Specs
Apple MacBook Air (M2, 2022)
Product Brand: Apple
Editor's Rating:
8.5
8.5
Pros
- Fast and powerful M2 processor
- Slim and lightweight design
- High-quality Retina display
- Long battery life
- Fast solid-state drive (SSD) storage
- Two Thunderbolt 4 ports for high-speed data transfer and charging
- High-quality built-in speakers and microphone
- Improved FaceTime HD camera
- Available in a variety of colors
Cons
- Limited configuration options for RAM and storage
- No touch screen or 2-in-1 design
- No dedicated graphics card
- No SD card slot or Ethernet port
- Limited compatibility with some older software
On June 6, 2022, Apple announced a new MacBook Air based on the Apple M2 system on a chip. It incorporates several design elements from the fifth-generation MacBook Pro models, such as a flat, slab-shaped design, full-sized function keys, and a Liquid Retina display with rounded corners and a notch for a 1080p webcam.
Still, it retains the previous generation’s fanless design. It includes two combinations of Thunderbolt 3/USB 4 ports and adds MagSafe charging. The MacBook Air laptop with an M2 chip has:
- 13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology;
2560-by-1664 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch with
support for 1 billion colors, Wide color (P3) and True Tone technology with 500 nits brightness - It has an 8GB unified memory, configurable to 16GB or 24GB during purchase.
- The base internal memory is a 256GB SSD configurable to 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB during purchase.
The Apple MacBook Air laptop with M2 chip 2022 comes in four colors: midnight, starlight, space gray and silver.
Below are images of the Apple MacBook Air (M2, 2022) laptop in different color options.
The Apple MacBook Air 2022 laptop with the M2 chip has 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking with Bluetooth 5.0 support. For internet calls or camera-related activities, there’s a 1080p FaceTime HD camera with an advanced image signal processor with computational video that makes FaceTime and other video calling enjoyable.
When it comes to sound or audio, the Apple MacBook Air 2022 with an M2 chip has a four-speaker sound system with wide stereo sound and support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos via the built-in speakers.
You can also use Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max. A three-mic array with directional beam forming makes the MacBook Air laptop 2022 with an M2 chip a good audio listener.
There’s also a 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones, making listening to audio via your preferred wired headphones easy.
You can view more detailed specifications for the MacBook Air 2022 laptop with an M2 chip on the technical specifications tab.
Full Technical Specifications
General
| Device Type | Laptop Computer |
| Released | 06 June, 2022 |
| Status | Available |
| Predecessor | Apple MacBook Air with M1 chip |
Processor (CPU)
| Processor Type | Apple M2 chip |
| Processor Speed | 3.49 GHz |
| Processor Cores | Octa Core |
| Processor Cache |
L1 Cache: 192k+128k, 128k+64k x4* L2/L3 Cache: 16 MB, 4 MB x4* Details: Third-party software analysis has determined that the Apple M2 SoC in this model has a 192k+128k L1 cache per performance core and a 128k+64k L1 cache per efficiency core. Each performance core reportedly also has a 16 MB L2 cache, and each efficiency core reportedly has a 4 MB L2 cache. |
| Base frequency | 2.0 GHz |
| Turbo frequency | 3.4 GHz |
| Threads | 8 |
| Fabrication process | 5 nm |
| 64-bit Computing | |
| Processor Details |
Apple M2 chip 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores 8-core GPU 16-core Neural Engine 100GB/s memory bandwidth Media engine Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW Video decode engine Video encode engine ProRes encode and decode engine Configurable to: M2 with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU |
| Benchmarks |
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core) - 1782 Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core) - 8197 Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) - 1447 Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) - 8120 |
Memory (RAM)
| RAM |
8 GB of unified in-package 128-bit 6400 MHz LPDDR5 SDRAM with up to 102.4 GB/s of memory bandwidth Optional 16 GB or 24 GB at the time of purchase only. |
| RAM Type | LPDDR5 SDRAM |
| RAM Speed | 5200 MHz |
| RAM Max | upto 24 GB |
| User Upgradable | No |
Storage
| Storage Type | Solid State Drive (SSD) |
| Storage Capacity |
256GB 512GB 1024GB or 1TB 2048GB or 2TB |
| Technology | PCIe |
| Channels | 1x256 GB |
| User Upgradable | No |
Display Info
| Display Type <strong>Display Technology => </strong> A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | Liquid Retina display IPS LCD |
| Size | 13.6-inch (diagonal) |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1664 pixels |
| Display Colors <strong>Display Colors</strong> is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others. | 1 billion colors |
| Pixel Density <strong>Pixel Density (PPI)</strong> is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality. | 225 PPI |
| Refresh rate | 60 Hz |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:10 |
| Contrast | 1384:1 |
| sRGB color space | 99.9% |
| Adobe RGB profile | 87.6% |
| DCI-P3 color gamut | 98.4% |
| Response time | 29 ms |
| Max. brightness | 500 nits brightness |
| Extras |
Wide colour (P3) True Tone technology |
Case
| Height | 1.13 cm (0.44 inch) |
| Width | 30.41 cm (11.97 inch) |
| Depth | 21.5 cm (8.46 inch) |
| Weight | 1.24 kg (2.7 pounds) |
| Colors | Silver, Starlight, Space Gray, Midnight |
| Area | 654 cm2 (101.3 inch) |
| Screen-to-body ratio | ~82% |
| Side bezels | 5.6 mm |
| Opening angle | 130° |
| Transformer | No |
| Touch Screen | No |
| Cooling system | Passive |
| Material | Aluminum |
Graphics Card
| GPU <strong>GPU</strong> (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Apple M2 GPU (8-core or 10-core) |
| GPU Type | Integrated |
| Fabrication process | 5 nm |
| TGP | 15 W |
| GPU base clock | 500 MHz |
| GPU boost clock | 1456 MHz |
| FLOPS | 3 TFLOPS |
| Memory size | System Shared |
| Memory type | LPDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128 bit |
| Memory speed | 5.2 Gbps |
| Shading units (cores) | 1024 |
| Texture mapping units (TMUs) | 64 |
| Raster operations pipelines (ROPs) | 32 |
| GPU performance | 3 TFLOPS |
Operating System
| Operating System <strong>OS => </strong> Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Mac OS |
Battery or Power Info
| Battery Type <strong>Battery Type => </strong> Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Poly (Lithium Polymer) |
| Capacity <strong>Battery Capacity</strong> is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 52.6-watt‑hour |
| Placement | Non-removable |
| Weight of AC adapter | 174 / 189 gramm |
| Cable length | 2 meters |
| Charge power | 30 / 35 / 67 W |
| Charging port position | Left |
| USB Power Delivery | Yes |
| Fast charging | Yes |
| Full charging time | 2:30 hr |
Multimedia Features
| Audio Features |
Four-speaker sound system Wide stereo sound Support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max Three-mic array with directional beamforming 3.5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones |
| Audio File Formats |
Supported formats include AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby Atmos |
| Video File Formats |
Supported formats include HEVC, H.264, and ProRes HDR with Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG |
| Display Support |
Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colours and: One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz Thunderbolt 3 digital video output Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C VGA, HDMI, DVI, and Thunderbolt 2 output are supported using adapters (sold separately) |
| Speakers | 2.2 |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes |
| Loudness | 82.7 dB |
| Microphone | 3 |
Connectivity Info
| Bluetooth Features <strong>Bluetooth</strong> is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | v5 |
| Wi-Fi <strong>Wi-Fi</strong> is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | v6 |
| Fingerprint | Yes |
| Optical drive | No |
Input and Output
| Keyboard and Trackpad |
Backlit Magic Keyboard with: 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys and 4 arrow keys in an inverted-T arrangement Touch ID Ambient light sensor Force Touch trackpad for precise cursor control and pressure-sensing capabilities; enables Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing, and Multi-Touch gestures |
| USB-A | No |
| USB Type-C | 2x USB 4.0 |
| Thunderbolt | Thunderbolt 3 |
| HDMI <strong>HDMI</strong> (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from a HDMI-compliant source device to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. | No |
| 3.5mm Audio jack | Yes |
| Display Port | No |
| VGA | No |
| Ethernet (RJ45) | No |
| SD card reader | No |
| Proprietary charging port | Yes |
| Keyboard type | Island |
| Numpad | No |
| Backlight | Yes |
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