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MacBook Air 15-inch

SPECIFICATIONS

Display 15.3-inch 2880x1864 500 nit 60Hz LED Chipset Apple M2 CPU 8 cores (4 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores) GPU 10 cores Neural Engine 16 cores RAM 8GB / 16GB / 24GB Storage 256GB / 512GB / 1TB / 2TB Operating system macOS Ventura Connectivity MagSafe 3, 2x Thunderbolt 3, 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 Dimensions 11.5x340.4x237.6mm) Weight 1.51kg

The name MacBook Air 15-inch sounds like a contradiction, right?

Apple’s ‘Air’ line should be floaty-light and surely that’s not going to be achievable in a larger form factor? Wrong! The MacBook Air is the thinnest, lightest 15-inch laptop on the market, giving it some serious kudos.

This MacBook Air’s 15.3-inch screen – notice it’s not 15.6-inch, that’d be bumping elbows too closely with the MacBook Pro 16-inch – means it’s still fairly portable, while embodying the goodness of Apple’s M2 silicon in a fanless (and therefore silent) design.

But that raises the question: is the 15-inch MacBook in 2023 literally just a larger version of the 13-inch model from 2022 then? Well, it’s not far off but there

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