MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023

MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023 in Kenya

The price of the MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023 in Kenya is Ksh 220,000 (256GB 8GB) and Ksh 245,000 (512GB 8GB). This cutting-edge laptop gives you an excellent computing experience by fusing a sleek design with solid performance and advanced capabilities.

Assuredly, you can do any activity easily because this MacBook’s ground-breaking Apple M2 CPU offers lightning-fast processing power, seamless multitasking, and energy economy.

This MacBook boasts a magnificent 15.3-inch Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and a native resolution of 2560 x 1600 that provides vivid colours and fine details for immersive graphics. With a generous 256GB storage capacity, you can store all your important files, documents, and multimedia without worrying about running out of space.

Featuring a 1080p HD camera and cutting-edge image signal processor with computational video, Apple MacBook Air 2023 provides assuredly faultless video calls.

MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023 Specifications

What is in the Box?

• 15-inch MacBook Air with M2 chip
• USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2 m)
• USB-C Power Adapter

Physical Built and Design of MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023

The Macbook measures 1.15 * 34.04 * 23.76cm and weighs 1.51kg. Available in Silver, Starlight, Space Grey, and Midnight colours, the thin and sleek laptop is designed and made for high performance and productivity.

Display of MacBook Air 15-inch M2

MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023 has a 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display.  The 15.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology boasts a 2880 X 1864 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch and 500 nits brightness.

Colour

• Support for 1 billion colors
• Wide color (P3)
• True Tone technology

Outstanding Features and Performance of MacBook Air 15-inch M2 Chip 2023

Apple M2 Chip

An ultrafast, ultracapable chip engineered to help you zip through everyday tasks and take on more intensive workflows. The M2 chip gives more speed to everything you do —editing a video for class, collaborating on a business plan, or streaming a show while you shop online. Moreover, with all-day battery life, you can leave the power adapter at home.

Comparatively to Intel’s Core i7 processor, MacBook Air’s M2 Chip delivers up to 2x faster performance, up to 50% faster web browsing, and up to 50% longer battery life.

Go inside M2 Chip:

• Runs multiple apps and edits thousands of photos or 4K video
• Additionally, it is up to 12x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air.

Unified Memory

MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023 runs on 8GB Unified Memory. Unified memory is undoubtedly faster and more efficient than the same amount of traditional RAM;

• Add memory to run more apps simultaneously for faster, more fluid multitasking
• Can be configured with up to 16GB/24GB of memory

Storage on MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023

Solid-state drive (SSD) storage is the amount of space your MacBook Air has for your documents, photos, music, videos, and other files.

• Undoubtedly, it delivers exceptional performance and speed when you start up your Mac, launch apps, open files, and browse libraries
• The MacBook has 256GB SSD / 512GB SSD.
• Can be configured with up to 2TB of storage

Charging Ports and Expansion on MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023

• MagSafe 3 charging port
• 5 mm headphone jack
• Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:
  • Charging
  • DisplayPort
  • Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
  • USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
  • USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

Camera and Audio

The device features a 1080p FaceTime HD camera with an advanced image signal processor and computational video capabilities.

For audio, it features:

• Six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers
• Wide stereo sound
• Support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers
• Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max
• Three-mic array with directional beamforming
• 5 mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones

Specifically, the supported formats for video playbacks include HEVC, H.264, and ProRes HDR with Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG.

Regarding audio playbacks, the supported formats include AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby Atmos.

The Battery and Charging System

Assuredly, you can rely on the 66.5-watt-hour lithium‑polymer battery on the M2 Macbook Air that provides:

• Up to 18 hours of Apple TV app movie playback
• Up to 15 hours of wireless web

The charging system consists of:

• 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter
• USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable
• Fast-charge capable with 70W USB-C Power Adapter
• MagSafe 3 charging port

Pros and Cons of MacBook Air 15-inch M2 chip 2023

Pros

• Fast charging and solid battery
• Great, immersive, bright screen
• Wi-Fi 6E support
• HDMI 2.1 support
• Fast charging Type-C charger.
• Impressive performance with the M2 Max chip (12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores; 38-core GPU; 16-core Neural Engine; 400GB/s memory bandwidth)
• 8GB Unified Memory, configurable to 24GB
• 256GB SSD / 512GB SSD, configurable to 1 TB
• Superior audio and video output.
• Bluetooth 5.3
• Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)

Cons

• Heavy at 2.15kgs
• The notch is a turn-off
• Highly priced.

Alternative MacBooks

• MacBook Air 13-inch M2 chip 2022
• MacBook Pro 14-inch 2021 MKGP3
• Macbook Pro 14 Inch M2 Pro 2023
• 16-inch MacBook Pro M2 Pro.