![]() Performance-wise, the 15-inch Air is also essentially identical to the smaller model. That said, for most users, there's plenty of power here. It's worth noting that while single-core performance is similar to the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M2 Max chip, multi-core and graphics performance is where the M2 can't quite keep up. The same goes for Cinebench R23 and a few others we tried. Geekbench 5 scores were almost the same as those we got when testing both the 13-inch Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, both of which also use the M2 chip. ![]() The butterfly keyboard debacle is fortunately a distant memory. The keyboard, large trackpad and Touch ID sensor are all excellent, which is true of all Mac laptops at this point. The laptop comes in the same four colors (or, more accurately, shades of gray). It has the same relatively meager port selection: just two USB-C ports, MagSafe for power and a headphone jack. Cranking the volume up to the max reveals the lack of bass, but I was happy to listen to music at mid-range volume all day long.īeyond those things, the 15-inch Air is just a slightly bigger version of the 13-inch model. But the speakers in the Air still sound lively and fun to listen to. They’re not nearly as good as the ones in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, but that laptop is significantly thicker and heavier than the Air that extra space surely helps with resonance and bass. Apple has been making surprisingly excellent laptop speakers for a few years now, and these also sound very lively and full when playing back music or movies. The 15-inch Air also has a six-speaker sound system with “force-canceling woofers” for improved bass, compared to a four-speaker setup in the smaller model. (The model I’m testing has 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, a configuration that costs $1,699.) The other internal specs are similar for both base models: 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The base 15-inch model comes with the 10-core GPU variant of the M2 to power the bigger display’s extra pixels the 13-inch has an 8-core GPU by default. The rest of the differences between the two Air models are minor.
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