Hardware Breakdown Presents: The( New) MacBook Air M2
What's in Apple's new MacBook Air M2? We're about to find out because currently, the ultra-portable is the most reviewed device on the internet, buzzworthy indeed. As always with Hardware Breakdown, we profile the highest-end model core components.
The brains behind it all are the M2 Chip
The new MacBook Air's pinnacle feature, or hardware, is the M2 Chip, Apple's most powerful processor to date; it has an 8-core CPU with four performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a 10-core GPU, along with the 16-core Neural Engine and 100GB/s memory bandwidth.
The processing codecs
The media hardware acceleration is made possible by the H. 264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes Raw, and a video decode engine.
Bigger and brighter display
The new MacBook Air display is much brighter than previous Gen models. With a native resolution measuring 2560 x 1664, with a very bright with 500 nits, supporting up to 1 billion colors. In addition, IPS and True Tone technology are present in the display. The panel on the new MacBook Air is also much more extensive, measuring 13.6-inch, compared to the last generation model.
The RAM and Storage
It's rather strange that the base model MacBook Air offers only 8GB RAM. Odd since video editing apps and your resource-intensive web browser (Google) need an exuberant amount of memory to function correctly. As an option, you can configure up to 24GB of RAM. But you'll have to spend a few hundred dollars for the top-end model.
On the storage front, the base model contains a single 256GB NAND chip, which, according to reports, has slower SSD speeds in benchmark testing. However, Apple claims the real-world performance of the new MacBook Air is "even faster" due to higher density NAND. If your workflow depends on a faster storage drive, you'll need to configure up to 5 12GB SSD. In addition, it's equipped with multiple NAND chips, giving you faster read/write speeds.
