Avoid base model M2 MacBook Air

July 15, 2022

The new MacBook Air is the rare product that seems to be getting almost universally rave reviews.

Reviewers are having a hard time finding fault with the light, fast, good-looking machine.

But there is a fly in the ointment: The base model may be slower than its M1 predecessor for some tasks, and we advise avoiding it.

--Leander Kahney, EIC.

Those in the market for the hot new laptop should be aware that the base model with 256GB of storage reportedly suffers from slow performance when moving large files and multitasking. Apple says real-world performance isn’t affected, but benchmarks show the base model is slower even than its M1 predecessor for some tasks.

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Apple’s new M2 MacBook Air is now arriving for preorder customers in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. It also will be available for in-store pickup starting today in most major markets.

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One more thing ...

"There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook." -- Steve Jobs

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