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The afternoon of this Monday (6) was full of news for fans and apple enthusiasts. In addition to the ments iOS 16 and the new chip Apple M2, a Apple also revealed its newest MacBook Air e MacBook Pro with M2 chip during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2022 (WWDC)). Boasting the latest processor, which promises to be even more powerful and energy efficient, the MacBook Air arrives with a renewed look, while the version of MacBook Pro 13″ had only internal improvements. Check out. 3s1j4l
Before that, be sure to watch our video roundup of everything featured at WWDC 2022:
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A Apple today presented a MacBook Air completely redesigned, with an all-new, incredibly thin design. As the best-selling model in the world, it brings a larger 13,6″ Liquid Retina display, with technology true Tone, wide color tone (P3) and contains up to 500 nits of brightness, offering 25% better lighting than the previous generation. A 12MP 1080p FaceTime camera also completes the front of the display.
The new Apple M2 increases the number of GPU cores present in the model to 9 and 10 cores (against 7 and 8 of the previous version), as well as providing more performance through the updated U, ideal for more advanced s who want to edit videos, create music and spend few hours in some online game, for example.
Completely redesigned around the M2, the MacBook Air is thinner, lighter and faster with a bigger screen, better camera and all-day battery life in four beautiful finishes. Only with Apple silicon can you build such a thin and light notebook with a fanless design and this combination of performance and features.
Greg Joswiak, Apple's Senior Vice President of Marketing
The laptop comes with four speakers and three microphones, all integrated into the keyboard and with Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos . It can be purchased in versions with up to 2TB of SSD storage and up to 24GB of RAM. As well as the hardware, s will also be able to customize the notebook with the color they prefer, as it offers up to four options: silver, gold, space gray and blue.
At 11,3 mm thick and weighing just 1,2 kg, the MacBook Air with M2 processor manages to be lighter than the previous generation. It still s playback videos up to 8K, as well as for ProRes videos and features full keyboard with Touch ID. The laptop promises to 18 hours battery lifeand this time we have the return of the MagSafe connector for faster charging.
The connectivity part of MacBook Air is the same as present in the past generation, with only two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports (both on the left side) for transferring data or image and sound to external monitors, in addition to the presence of the connector P2 for 3,5mm wired headphones (on the right side).
MacBook Air pricing and availability 4e3qi
The new MacBook Air arrives on the international market in August. It can be pre-purchased with prices starting at US$ 1.199 (about BRL 5.748 in direct conversion). Here in Brazil, the MacBook Air with the new M2 chip, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage is priced from R$13.299.
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O MacBook Pro also got a more updated version. Unlike what happened with the MacBook Air, the rugged laptop from Apple had only internal changes, having its design preserved. And, like the Air, the Apple M2 with 8-core U and 10-core GPU promises to give this release even greater breath.
According to Apple thanks to M2, working with RAW images in apps like Affinity Photo is 40% faster on the new model, and games that demand graphics processing also run with performance improved by up to 40%. The company also says that s will be able to play up to 11 streams of 4K video and up to two streams of 8K ProRes video, and they can even convert their video projects to ProRes nearly 3x faster than before.
Regarding the battery, the promise is 20 hours long playing video.
MacBook Pro pricing and availability 5m1g4a
In the USA, MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 costs from US$ 1.299. In Brazil, it costs R$ 14.499.
Apple M2 even more powerful 5g1z3i
built with 5nd generation 2nm technology with 20 billion transistors — 25% more than the M1 chip — the Apple M2 s up to 24GB of LPDDR5 unified memory and has four performance cores and four efficiency cores, in addition to ing 100 GB/s unified memory bandwidth, 50% more than seen in M1. He still presents 10 video card cores and is focused on energy efficiency, just like its predecessor.
According to the company, the Apple M2 will deliver until 2,3 times more GPU power what a notebook Galaxy Book2 360 using less energy. Apple also says that the new chip is capable of outperforming notebooks with 12-core Us, such as the Intel Core i7-1260P, using only ¼ of its maximum performance. Compared to its predecessor, the M1, the Apple is promising a 18% faster U and a GPU with up to 35% higher performance.
The new platform is still equipped with a 16 core neural network that promises to be until 40% more powerful, being capable of performing up to 15,8 trillion operations per second. O M2 it also s other technologies that are being explored by the company, such as ProRes video encoding and up to 6K resolution.
See also more WWDC announcements:
Apple M2: see the advantages and specifications of the new generation.
