Vast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package
But in 2023 Apple made big changes: this year's MacBook Air has a more squared-off design, and a larger 15″ model.For starters, battery life is beyond impressive. I hooked the machine up to Wi-Fi, prevented it from shutting down its screen or sleeping, then left YouTube running until the battery gave up … 17 hours and 20 minutes later.
That long battery life is attributable to Apple's M2 silicon, which for the first time saw the Cupertino fruit cart dare to try a 15-inch screen in the Air.Long battery life did not come at the expense of speed: the machine ploughed through Desktop Tourism's chore of downscaling a five-minute, 4K video to HD in two minutes and twelve seconds – a little slower than Core i7 and i9 machines we've tested.
Jobsian reality distortion effects aside, the MacBook Air just feels fast. Twenty-four gigabytes of Hynix LPDDR5 memory can't hurt – nor would the eight-core M2 and a two-terabyte SSD. You pay for that power: the machine I tested sells for $2,499/£2,599. The keyboard is placed centrally with around three centimeters separating its last keys from the laptop's edge – a gap that feels like wasted space even if I could find nothing negative to say about Apple's input device. The trackpad is large and responsive. The 15.3-inch, 2880×1864 screen sparkled, but I found its mid-range brightness settings a little disappointing.
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