Apple MacBook Air 13.6″ Starlight Notebook Apple M2 Chip 8GB Unified RAM 256GB SSD (Mid 2022)

Apple MLY13LL/A MacBook Air 13.6″ Starlight Notebook Apple M2 Chip 8GB Unified RAM 256GB SSD (Mid 2022)

MacBook Air. Redesigned. Redefined.

Completely redesigned around the Apple M2 chip, MacBook Air offers improved performance and capabilities and all-day battery life in a silent, fanless design. Enjoy a gorgeous 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, an immersive four-speaker sound system, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and a choice of four beautiful finishes. It’s thinner, lighter, and faster—and everything you want in MacBook Air.

Key Features

• M2 chip with next-generation CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
• Faster 8-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU to power through complex tasks⁵
• 16-core Neural Engine for advanced machine learning tasks
• Up to 24GB of faster unified memory makes everything you do super fluid
• Up to 20 percent faster for applying image filters and effects⁵
• Up to 40 percent faster for editing complex video timelines⁵
• Go all day with up to 18 hours of battery life³
• Fanless design for silent operation
• 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and P3 wide color for vibrant images and incredible detail⁶
• 1080p FaceTime HD camera with twice the resolution and low-light performance
• Three-microphone array focuses on your voice instead of what’s going on around you
• Four-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio for an immersive listening experience
• Share content seamlessly between iPhone and Mac
• MagSafe charging port, two Thunderbolt ports, and headphone jack
• Backlit Magic Keyboard and Touch ID for secure unlock and payments
• Fast Wi-Fi 6 wireless connectivity
• Superfast SSD storage launches apps and opens files in an instant
• macOS Monterey lets you connect, share, and create like never before—across all your Apple devices
• Available in midnight, starlight, space gray, and silver

Features

Portable Design

• Built around M2, the strikingly thin design is just .44 inches
• The most portable Mac notebook, weighing just 2.7 pounds
• Fanless design delivers completely silent operation
• Available in midnight, starlight, space gray, and silver

Apple M2 Chip

• 8-core CPU speeds through tasks like exporting a video for the web
• Up to a 10-core GPU delivers a big boost in graphics performance
• 16-core Neural Engine can process up to 15.8 trillion operations per second, over 40 percent more than M1
• SSD storage speeds are blazing fast, so tasks like previewing massive, high-res images are quick and fluid
• Supports 8GB, 16GB, and 24GB of fast unified memory that can be accessed by the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine
• Next-generation media engine supports ProRes, so you can play back up to 11 streams of 4K or up to two streams of 8K ProRes video
• Applying filters and effects in apps like Photoshop is up to 20 percent faster than before, and a massive five times faster for users who haven’t upgraded to Apple silicon¹
• Intensive workloads like editing complex timelines in Final Cut Pro are nearly 40 percent faster than on MacBook Air with M1²

All-Day Battery Life

• Get up to 15 hours of wireless web to power through your day, and up to 18 hours of Apple TV app movie playback³
• Fast-charge up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes⁴

Liquid Retina Display

• Brilliant 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display offers more space for all your content
• Features over 4 million pixels so text is sharp and images have incredible detail
• With 500 nits, the display is 25 percent brighter than before
• Support for 1 billion colors and P3 wide color offers extremely vibrant photos and movies
• True Tone technology delivers a more comfortable viewing experience by matching the color temperature of the display to the ambient light

1080p FaceTime HD Camera

• Get twice the resolution and low-light performance of the previous generation MacBook Air
• M2 brings Apple’s most advanced image signal processor to MacBook Air, so you’ll look great on video calls

Immersive Four-Speaker Sound System

• Four-speaker sound system produces amazing stereo separation and vocal clarity for immersive audio
• Spatial Audio support enhances music and movies with Dolby Atmos
• Three-mic array captures clean audio using advanced beamforming, so you’ll sound great wherever you are

Magic Keyboard and Touch ID

• Backlit Magic Keyboard provides a comfortable, quiet typing experience, and a full-height function row
• Pre-programmed shortcuts put common functions right at your fingertips, including Spotlight, Dictation and Siri, and Do Not Disturb
• Use Apple Pay or log in with Touch ID, and a press of the Touch ID sensor instantly locks your screen

Powerful and Versatile Connectivity

• MagSafe 3 port for charging with quick-release magnetic connection, and cables match the color of the finish
• With two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports, you get charging, data transfer, and video out on a single connector
• Supports one external display with up to 6K resolution

Best-In Class Secuirty

• Enables secure boot and automatic encryption, so everything stored on MacBook Air stays safe

Essential Additions

• AppleCare+ for Mac, USB-C to Lightning Cable, USB-C to USB Adapter
• 35W Dual USB-C Port Compact Power Adapter so you can charge two devices at the same time
• 67W USB-C Power Adapter for fast-charging

Footnotes:

• ¹ Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 24GB of RAM, as well as production MacBook Air systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16GB of RAM, all configured with 2TB SSD, as well as production 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-based MacBook Air systems with Intel UHD Graphics 617, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD. Adobe Photoshop 23.3.1 tested using the following filters and functions: Emboss, Minimum, Sharpen Edges, Rotate Image, and Ripple. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air.
• ² Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and 24GB of RAM, as well as production MacBook Air systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 16GB of RAM, all configured with 2TB SSD. Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 tested using a complex 2-minute project with 4K ProRes 422 media. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air
• ³ Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/batteries for more information.
• ⁴ Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD. MacBook Air systems tested with Apple 67W USB-C Power Adapter (Model A2518) and USB-C to MagSafe 3 Cable (Model A2363). Fast-charge testing conducted with drained MacBook Air units. Charge time varies with settings and environmental factors; actual results will vary.
• ⁵ Compared with previous generation.
• ⁶ The display on the 13.6-inch MacBook Air has rounded corners at the top. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 13.6 inches diagonally (actual viewable area is less).