MacBook Air 13

Nov 06, 2023

The M2 chip brings more speed to everything you do — whether you’re editing a video for class, collaborating on a business plan, or streaming a show while you shop online. And with all-day battery life, you can leave the power adapter at home.

Compared to a PC laptop with an Intel Core i7 processor, MacBook Air delivers up to 2x faster performance,4 up to 50 percent faster web browsing,5 and up to 50 percent longer battery life.6

Take flight.

Apple silicon has transformed the Mac lineup with its blazing performance and power efficiency. The breakthrough system on a chip (SoC) architecture combines the CPU, GPU, memory, and more on a single chip so everything runs much faster — while requiring much less power.

The M2 chip is built using an enhanced second-generation 5‑nanometer technology. It features over 20 billion transistors — 25 percent more than M1. And its 16-core Neural Engine is capable of executing up to 15.8 trillion operations per second to accelerate machine learning tasks. Up to 24GB of high-performance unified memory gives the CPU and GPU shared access to a larger memory pool. And the 100GB/s memory bandwidth — 50 percent more than M1 — makes multitasking and running multiple apps superfluid.

Let's do this.

The 8‑core CPU on M2 is up to 18 percent faster than M1.7 So you can zip through everyday tasks like creating documents and presentations, or take on more demanding workloads like developing in Xcode or mixing tracks in Logic Pro with Spatial Audio.

Make it pretty. Fast.

With up to a 10‑core GPU, M2 delivers a big boost in graphics performance — up to 35 percent faster than M17 — for everything from color correcting photos to editing 4K and 8K video.

Faster video editing performance8

Faster image filters and effects performance9

Faster gaming performance10

Faster video transcode performance11

Faster image upscaling performance12

Faster video transcode performance13

Faster image filters and effects performance14

Faster web application responsiveness15

Longer battery life when video conferencing16

Faster project build performance17

Compatibility. With thousands of apps optimized for Apple silicon, all your favorites will run lightning fast on macOS, including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Suite. And regular, free macOS software updates keep things running smoothly.