June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces the 15‑inch MacBook Air
With an expansive 15.3-inch Liquid Retina show, the efficiency of M2, as much as 18 hours of battery life, and a six-speaker sound system, all in a skinny and light-weight, fanless design, the brand new MacBook Air is the world’s finest 15-inch laptop computer
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present launched the 15-inch MacBook Air, the world’s finest 15-inch laptop computer. With an expansive 15.3-inch Liquid Retina show, the unbelievable efficiency of M2, as much as 18 hours of battery life,1 and a silent, fanless design, the brand new MacBook Air brings energy and portability — all on the earth’s thinnest 15-inch laptop computer. With an all-new six-speaker sound system, the 15-inch MacBook Air delivers immersive Spatial Audio, together with a 1080p FaceTime HD digicam, MagSafe charging, and the facility and ease of macOS Ventura for an unequalled expertise. Prospects can order beginning at present, with availability starting Tuesday, June 13. The 13-inch MacBook Air with M2 will get a brand new beginning worth of $1,099 — $100 lower than earlier than — to ship much more worth and option to everybody, from upgraders to first-time Mac prospects.
“We’re thrilled to introduce the primary 15-inch MacBook Air. With its unbelievable efficiency and putting design, the brand new MacBook Air is the world’s finest 15-inch laptop computer. And it’s solely attainable with Apple silicon,” stated John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {Hardware} Engineering. “From its expansive Liquid Retina show and remarkably skinny and fanless design, to extraordinary battery life and an immersive six-speaker sound system, the brand new MacBook Air has all of it.”
Good 15.3-inch Liquid Retina Show
The brand new MacBook Air contains a spacious, high-resolution 15.3-inch Liquid Retina show, so customers can see much more content material. With as much as 500 nits of brightness and assist for 1 billion colours, the good Liquid Retina show makes content material look remarkably wealthy and vibrant, and textual content razor sharp. It’s also twice the decision and 25 % brighter than a comparable PC laptop computer.2
World’s Thinnest 15-inch Laptop computer
The brand new MacBook Air measures solely 11.5mm skinny, making it the world’s thinnest 15-inch laptop computer. It weighs simply 3.3 kilos, so it’s extremely moveable. Even with its expansive show, the brand new MacBook Air is strong and sturdy. And it is usually almost 40 % thinner and half a pound lighter than a comparable PC laptop computer.2
MacBook Air additionally options MagSafe charging, two Thunderbolt ports for connecting equipment and as much as a 6K exterior show, together with a 3.5mm headphone jack for versatile connectivity. It is available in 4 beautiful finishes — midnight, starlight, area grey, and silver.
Blazing Efficiency and Large Battery Life with M2
With the M2 chip, the 15-inch MacBook Air has unbelievable efficiency. It’s as much as 12x sooner than the quickest Intel-based MacBook Air.3 When in comparison with the best-selling 15-inch PC laptop computer with a Core i7 processor, the brand new MacBook Air is as much as twice as quick.4 It additionally delivers extraordinary battery life, with as much as 18 hours — 50 % greater than on the PC — even with a greater show and higher efficiency.5 The 15-inch MacBook Air contains a highly effective 8-core CPU with 4 efficiency cores and 4 effectivity cores, a 10-core GPU for blazing-fast graphics, and a 16-core Neural Engine. M2 additionally delivers 100GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth and helps as much as 24GB of quick unified reminiscence, so multitasking and dealing with advanced workloads is superfluid. The efficiency of M2 lets customers work, play, or create absolutely anything — anyplace.
1080p FaceTime HD Digicam and Six-Speaker Sound System
The 1080p FaceTime HD digicam on MacBook Air is ideal for FaceTime calls and video conferencing. Mixed with the processing energy of the superior picture sign processor on M2, customers will look nice on video calls. A 3-mic array captures clear audio utilizing superior beamforming algorithms, so customers come by loud and clear on video calls.
The design of the brand new 15-inch MacBook Air additionally contains a phenomenal new six-speaker sound system with two tweeters and two units of force-cancelling woofers. The brand new audio system ship twice the bass depth for fuller sound, and Spatial Audio with assist for Dolby Atmos gives immersive experiences whether or not listening to music or watching motion pictures.
Highly effective Productiveness with macOS
macOS Ventura takes the Mac expertise to a complete new degree that helps customers obtain much more. Messages and Mail are higher than ever, whereas Safari — the world’s quickest browser on Mac — ushers in a passwordless future with passkeys. Continuity Digicam brings video conferencing options to any Mac, together with Desk View, Heart Stage, and Studio Gentle. Stage Supervisor mechanically organizes apps and home windows, so customers can consider the duty at hand and nonetheless see every little thing in a single look. With iCloud Shared Photograph Library, customers can create and share a separate photograph library amongst as much as six relations, and the Freeform app gives a versatile canvas that allows customers to be much more productive and expressive. Customers can work effortlessly throughout Mac and iPhone with Continuity options like Handoff, AirDrop, Common Clipboard, and Messages.
macOS Sonoma, coming this fall, makes the Mac expertise extra pleasant and productive than ever, together with new methods to personalize with widgets and beautiful display screen savers, an optimized gaming expertise with Sport Mode, highly effective video conferencing capabilities, a giant replace to Safari, and extra.
Higher for the Atmosphere
The brand new MacBook Air is designed with the surroundings in thoughts, now utilizing 100% recycled gold plating and tin soldering in a number of printed circuit boards, and 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets. MacBook Air additionally options 100% recycled cobalt within the MagSafe connector and 90 % recycled metal within the battery tray. MacBook Air meets Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity, and is freed from mercury, PVC, and beryllium. Over 99 % of the packaging is fiber primarily based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective of utterly eradicating plastic from its packaging by 2025.
As we speak, Apple is carbon impartial for international company operations, and is concentrated on its Apple 2030 objective to make each product carbon impartial. This implies each Mac Apple creates, from design to manufacturing to buyer use, may have net-zero local weather affect.
Pricing and Availability
- The 15-inch MacBook Air with M2 is obtainable to order at present on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app. It’ll start arriving to prospects, and in Apple Retailer places and Apple Approved Resellers, starting Tuesday, June 13.
- The 15-inch MacBook Air with M2, out there in midnight, starlight, silver, and area grey, begins at $1,299 (U.S.) and $1,199 (U.S.) for schooling.
- The 13-inch MacBook Air with M2, out there in midnight, starlight, silver, and area grey, now begins at $1,099 (U.S.) and $999 (U.S.) for schooling.
- The 13-inch MacBook Air with M1, out there in gold, silver, and area grey, stays within the lineup, beginning at $999 (U.S.) and $899 (U.S.) for schooling.
- Further technical specs and particulars on Apple equipment — together with the brand new 70W USB-C Energy Adapter for $59 (U.S.) — can be found at apple.com/store/buy-mac.
- With Apple Commerce In, prospects can commerce of their present laptop and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their system is value.
- Each buyer who buys a Mac from Apple can take pleasure in a free On-line Private Session with an Apple Specialist, get their product arrange — together with assist with knowledge switch — in choose shops, and obtain steering on how one can make their new Mac work the way in which they need.
- AppleCare+ for Mac gives professional technical assist and extra {hardware} protection from Apple, together with limitless incidents of unintended injury safety, every topic to a service price.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 workers are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Battery life is determined by system settings, utilization, and different elements. Precise outcomes could fluctuate.
- Greatest-selling 15-inch Intel Core i7 PC laptop computer relies on publicly out there gross sales knowledge over the prior 12 months.
- Outcomes are in comparison with previous-generation 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air programs with Intel Iris Plus Graphics, 16GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
- Testing was performed by Apple in April and Might 2023 utilizing preproduction 15-inch MacBook Air programs with Apple M2, an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD, in addition to Intel Core i7-based PC programs with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and the most recent model of Home windows 11 out there on the time of testing. Greatest-selling 15-inch Intel Core i7 PC laptop computer relies on publicly out there gross sales knowledge over the prior 12 months. Adobe Photoshop 24.3.0 examined utilizing the next filters and features: choose sky, oil paint, adaptive vast angle, image body, and tree. Open supply venture constructed on macOS with Xcode 14.3 with Apple Clang 14.0.3; open supply venture constructed on Home windows with Clang 14.0.6. Premiere Professional 23.3.0 examined utilizing a 55-second clip with 4K Apple ProRes RAW media, at 4096×2160 decision and 59.94 frames per second, transcoded to Apple ProRes 422 at 29.97 frames per second. Efficiency checks are performed utilizing particular laptop programs and replicate the approximate efficiency of MacBook Air.
- Testing performed by Apple in April and Might 2023 utilizing preproduction 15-inch MacBook Air programs with Apple M2, an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD, in addition to manufacturing Intel Core i7-based PC programs with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and the most recent model of Home windows 11 out there on the time of testing. Greatest-selling 15-inch Intel Core i7 PC laptop computer relies on publicly out there gross sales knowledge over the prior 12 months. The Apple TV app was used for video playback on macOS, and the Motion pictures & TV app was used for video playback on Home windows. All gadgets have been examined with equal show brightness settings and with out community connection. Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/batteries for extra info.
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