Apple this month introduced the 15-inch MacBook Air, the world’s best 15-inch laptop. With an expansive 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display, the incredible performance of M2, up to 18 hours of battery life, and a silent, fanless design, the new MacBook Air brings power and portability — all in the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop.
With an all-new six-speaker sound system, the 15-inch MacBook Air delivers immersive Spatial Audio, along with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, MagSafe charging, and the power and ease of macOS Ventura for an unrivaled experience. Tthe 15-inch MacBook Air is available beginning today, Tuesday, June 13th.
Apple brought all the standout features it introduced in last year’s 13-inch model, like the redesigned chassis, Magsafe charging, and 1080p webcam, but threw in a wonderfully large 15.3-inch screen while still keeping the whole package thin and light.
The base 15-inch MacBook Air starts at $1,299, and Apple has reduced the price of the 13-inch version to $1,099 (the original M1-powered MacBook Air from 2020 is still available for $999). You can max out this model for a whopping $2,499, but that’s if you want the extra RAM and massive amounts of built-in storage, so it’s not necessary for most. At the base price, this 15-inch screen is worth every penny.
Powering this MacBook Air is the same M2 chip as in last year’s Air, with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU… You can upgrade the unified memory and storage all the way up to 24 GB and 2 TB, respectively. It’s plenty powerful for day-to-day tasks, but I recommend upgrading to at least 16 GB of unified memory if that’s within your budget…
The 15-inch MacBook Air is the best of both worlds — a larger display in a light and thin chassis.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote of the 15-inch M2 MacBook Air on the day it was unveiled, “Will be a huge hit. As will the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air with its new, $100 lower price. Order the new 15-inch M2 MacBook Air quickly if you want one without waiting too long.”
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Just set mine up – Thunderbolt 3 cable is startling fast for setup with Migration Assistant. The extra screen real estate is worth every penny!
But why bother with this old tech? Spatial computing is the future! We’ll be hosting laptop bonfires soon enough, right?
as a stock holder, I’m kinda worried that sales of other apple products will suffer as people hold off purchase of legacy products to get the next thing Vision Pro.
Of course most people will buy based on current needs, but if only 10% wait then that could affect sales numbers for Q4 and beyond. And it seems that apple may be limited to less than a million Vision Pro units the first year due to availability of the screens.
So maybe Apple announcing the vision pro so far ahead and the inability to make enough to meet demand will create the perfect storm where older apple products suffer and the new vision pro is unable to pickup the difference of lagging sales anytime soon.
Hopefully Im wrong. Im ordering the Vision Pro on day one and I won’t be buying the next iPhone unless its heads and shoulders above the current models.
Steve Jobs said that if you don’t canabalize your own products someone else will. He was right and the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are aimed at different users, Air for everyday use and the Pro for professionals
This doesn’t make sense, how is Apple’s potential inability to meet Vision Pro demand going to make “older apple products suffer”? People can’t get a VP so they don’t buy anything? Vision Pro customers will be the ones up to the gills with Apple products, who buy new iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, etc. every few years. Guaranteed the VP will only be compatible with Apple Silicon Macs too.
If reports are to be believed, Apple won’t be selling more than a couple million VPs in 2024-2025, that’s nothing compared to hundreds of millions of their other devices at $1000+ each. 10% of Apple’s couple-hundred-million best customers won’t even be able to get a VP if they wanted to.
Vision Pro can add a display to your MacBook air 15 inch, from what Apple has shown it is not a computer by itself but supplements the experience.
I love the 15 inch screen..I have a 13″ M2.. My wife has a 2013 MBP 15 and she needs to upgrade because we are stuck on MacOs 11.. but with the M3 coming next year we will wait for the M3 15 before putting our dollars down.. Apple just killed my 2017 MBP 13 for Sonoma also.. so I am not happy about that.. I will make them wait another year for my money for doing that.. I now have an MBP 13 that cannot upgrade anymore.. I got a base model MBA 13 that is serving my needs now.. Apple is creating obsolescence and that is BS! I can live with not having some features available on an older Mac.. but just cutting off upgrades is BS and makes you have to buy a new Mac when the one you have still works but may not support some new features.. I love the new M2 MBA.. but I need the MBP for work. so that is problem that they cut me off of future OS upgrades..
As much as I am extremely disappointed in the new Mac Pro, I am very excited about this new 15″ MacBook Air. I’ll almost certainly be getting one for my wife (her compute needs for photo and light video editing are well within this new Air’s capabilities).