MacBook Air M2 is a powerful machine, Which is launched in 2022, now we have M3 Chip, but should we buy M2 for gaming, editing, coding, study, office or personal and overall use, Here are complete details & review.
Build & Ports
This comes with a aluminum body, which is good and safe, this is a 1.24kg, which is lightweight and also perfect for traveling. You can choose any color, but this color feels better.
You will get two USB-C jacks, which are 4.0 thunderbolts, and one MagSafe charging port. Also, there is one 3.5mm jack, which also supports big headphones, so you can also do studio work in this. The MagSafe is very safe.
Display
Display is a good thing in MacBook Air M2. You can buy a 13.6 Inch Display. It offers a Liquid Retina Display with 2.5k resolution. It also comes with 500 nits brightness, which is enough for everywhere.
Colors and feel of display is very nice, also screen to body ratio is very low, but you can see a notch in display. However, it lacks Pro Motion feature, which help in fast refresh rate. Which is coming in MacBook Pro.
Performance
M2 Chip is very powerful, this is a big upgrade version of M1 Chip. The performance of CPU and GPU are faster than M1 chip by 18%, also graphics are better by 35%. Due to this, you can get a faster, smooth, experience in overall performance.
Gaming
Gaming performance of this machine is good due to improved GPU, but this is not a gaming laptop. It is also come without FAN, which is in Pro variant. It can handle casual gaming, but if you really wanted a gaming laptop to play ultra games, so you should look for another option.
Coding
For coding purpose, M2 is awesome, you can easily do heavy coding in this machine also. Compiling code and other coding works are very easy due to powerful CPU and M2 Chip.
Editing
If you are a creator or wants to do photo or video editing, this device is awesome. For photo editing, this is undoubtedly best and also for video editing, this is good and works well.
Hardware acceleration, encoding, decoding feature is very helpful for video editing. Improved GPU and CPU helps a lot. However for dedicating video editing, The Pro variant is more fine.
Student & Office Use
If you are a student or want to do office use, this is the best for you. You will get good speed and performance.
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Battery
Battery life is one of the best things about the MacBook. The battery of Windows are bad, and MacBook’s are the best. According to the company, this may give you an 18-hour backup, but if you are using it well, it may work for 10 hours perfectly, and if your usage is low,
it can also work 1-2 days. It came with 30w, 35w and 67w charging, 30w charger is cheapest, 67w can charge device 50% in 30 mint. Overall, 30 or 35w is best.
RAM, Storage
You will get 8GB unified memory, or RAM, and 256GB of storage, but if you expand by 16GB and 512GB storage, your performance and overall device speed will also double. If you are a creator and want high use, then you should upgrade, or you can buy an external SSD.
Keyboard
Keyword is very impressive; it also offers a touch ID, which is very good for security and unlock. Trackpad of this device is good and comes with haptic feedback, which works smooth, size of touchpad is also big.
Keyboard has light sensors, so brightness of keywords are set as perfect, no high, no low, pure perfect. This trackpad makes multitouch, gestures and navigation very smooth.
Mic Speakers & Camera
This M2 comes with 3 mics, which make your online classes and meetings perfect. Quad speakers with Dolby Atmos features make sound clean and better but not perfect, but fine. It offers a 1080p, which is an upgrade from 720p, and the camera quality is good.
Verdict
In this Apple MacBook Air M2 Review, we talked about everything. If you want to do coding, editing and traveling, you can go for this.
