The 2022 model sees the return of MagSafe to the MacBook Air for charging you may find that a positive or a negative, depending on your feelings on universal USB C ports versus the convenience of the MagSafe connection. The good news is that you’ll have the full use of both ports, even while charging. So best invest in an adapter if, like me, you’ll need one for the foreseeable future. While the USB C ports are useful, there are still times when a regular USB A, which used to be the standard across the board, is needed. On the ports side of things, Apple is giving you the essentials: two USB C and a headphone jack. This was one of the disappointments in the previous Air thankfully, Apple has solved this issue and the new camera is significantly less murky. The camera has had an improvement too, upgrading to a 1080p FaceTime camera. You can bump the spec up to the all-singing, all-dancing 24GB of RAM, so you can play and edit up to 11 streams of 4K without missing a heart, but it will cost you. I did a bit of light design work, some document editing and photo clean-ups without the device pausing for breath. That is the one that most people should opt for, as it works well across the board. The version reviewed here had 8GB of RAM and a 512GB solid-state drive, which costs €1,879, with the 10-core GPU. It’s the details that also sell the new MacBook Air. The MacBook Air also has to compete on the performance front.

Yes, it still works, but the new one just looks shinier and newer.īut you can’t drop the better part of €2,000 on looks alone. Side by side, my old MacBook Air’s design looks dated, kind of like when you compare the original iPad Air with the latest iPad Pro lookalike Air.

Powered by Apple’s latest M2 silicon chip, the new version has been redesigned, ditching the wedge design for a more MacBook Pro-inspired look. Slim, sleek and with a larger screen than before, the new MacBook Air means business. What finally pushed it over the edge though was some hands-on time with the new MacBook Air. But it’s still functioning, so I couldn’t justify the expense of a new one just yet.

It was inevitable it is more than a decade old at this point. It’s time for my trusty MacBook Air to finally hang up its keyboard.

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