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MacBook Air sails through work and play and with up to 18 hours of battery life, you can take the super portable MacBook Air anywhere and blaze through whatever you’re into.
From the moment you open your MacBook Air, its ready for whatever you throw at it, no matter how intense the workload, it stays silent thanks to the fanless design, Great for multitasking between apps, editing videos in iMovie or playing games, the M2 brings fantastic speed and fluidity to everything you do.
The M2 chip leverages incredible AI performance of the neural engine to deliver intelligent macOS features that enhance productivity and creativity, including powerful camera features, real-time speech to text and visual understanding. With access to a broad ecosystem of apps that deliver enhanced AI features.
MacBook Air is built for Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps you express yourself and get things done effortlessly. With groundbreaking privacy protections, it gives you peace of mind that no one else can access your data — not even Apple.
Liquid Retina display on MacBook Air is a sight to behold, with support for 1 billion colours and up to 2x the resolution of comparable PC laptops. Photos and videos pop with rich contrast and sharp detail, and text appears super-crisp for easy reading.
Make your best impression on video calls with the 1080p FaceTime HD camera and three mic array. Surround yourself with an expansive soundstage, compliments of the four speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. MacBook Air was designed to thrill the senses.
The speakers on MacBook Air support Spatial Audio along with Dolby Atmos, so you can enjoy three-dimensional soundstages for music and movies.
The comfortable and quiet backlit Magic Keyboard comes with full-height function keys and Touch ID, which gives you a fast, easy and secure way to unlock your Mac and sign in to apps and sites — all at the touch of a finger.
The MagSafe charging cable easily attaches and detaches with magnets, preventing any unintended flights. Two Thunderbolt ports let you connect high-speed accessories and charge your Mac. And the headphone jack supports high impedance headphones.
| Finish | Silver |
|---|---|
| Starlight | |
| Space Grey | |
| Midnight | |
| Chip | Apple M2 chip |
| 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores | |
| 8-core GPU | |
| 16-core Neural Engine | |
| 100GB/s memory bandwidth | |
| Configurable to M2 with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU | |
| Media engine | |
| Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW | |
| Video decode engine | |
| Video encode engine | |
| ProRes encode and decode engine | |
| Display | Liquid Retina display |
| Liquid Retina display 13.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology | |
| 2560x1664 native resolution at 224 pixels per inch | |
| 500 nits brightness | |
| Colour | Support for 1 billion colours |
| Wide colour (P3) | |
| True Tone technology | |
| Battery and Power | Up to 18 hours Apple TV app movie playback |
| Up to 15 hours wireless web | |
| 52.6-watt‑hour lithium‑polymer battery | |
| 30W USB‑C Power Adapter (included with M2 with 8-core GPU) | |
| 35W Dual USB‑C Port Power Adapter (included with M2 with 10-core | |
| GPU and 512GB storage, configurable with M2 with 8-core GPU) | |
| USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable | |
| Fast-charge capable with 70W USB‑C Power Adapter | |
| Charging and Expansion | 3.5mm headphone jack |
| MagSafe 3 | |
| Thunderbolt / USB 4 | |
| MagSafe 3 charging port | |
| 3.5mm headphone jack | |
| Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for: | |
| Charging | |
| DisplayPort | |
| Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s) | |
| USB 4 (up to 40Gb/s) | |
| USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s) | |
| Memory | 16GB unified memory |
| Configurable to: 24GB | |
| 8GB unified memory | |
| Configurable to: | |
| 16GB or 24GB | |
| Storage | 256GB SSD |
| Configurable to: | |
| 512GB, 1TB or 2TB | |
| Keyboard and Trackpad | Backlit Magic Keyboard with: |
| 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys including 12 full-height function keys and 4 arrow keys in an inverted “T” arrangement | |
| Touch ID | |
| Ambient light sensor | |
| Force Touch trackpad for precise cursor control and pressure-sensing capabilities; enables Force clicks, accelerators, pressure-sensitive drawing and Multi-Touch gestures | |
| Wireless | Wi‑Fi |
| Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax) | |
| Bluetooth | |
| Bluetooth 5.3 | |
| Camera | 1080p FaceTime HD camera |
| Advanced image signal processor with computational video | |
| Audio | Four-speaker sound system |
| Support for Spatial Audio when playing music or video with Dolby Atmos on built-in speakers | |
| Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking when using AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro and AirPods Max | |
| Three-mic array with directional beamforming | |
| 3.5mm headphone jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones | |
| Display Support | Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colours and: |
| One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz | |
| Thunderbolt 3 digital video output | |
| Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C | |
| VGA, HDMI, DVI and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold separately) | |
| Video Playback | Supported formats include HEVC, H.264 and ProRes |
| HDR with Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG | |
| Audio Playback | Supported formats include AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Atmos |
| Operating Requirements | Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC |
| Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz | |
| Operating temperature: 10° to 35° C (50° to 95° F) | |
| Storage temperature: –25° to 45° C (–13° to 113° F) | |
| Relative humidity: 0% to 90% non‑condensing | |
| Operating altitude: tested up to 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) | |
| Maximum storage altitude: 4,500 metres (15,000 feet) | |
| Maximum shipping altitude: 10,500 metres (35,000 feet) | |
| Size and Weight | Height: 1.13 cm (0.44 inches) |
| Width: 30.41 cm (11.97 inches) | |
| Depth: 21.5 cm (8.46 inches) | |
| Weight: 1.24 kg (2.7 pounds) | |
| Operating System | macOS |
| Accessibility | Accessibility features help people with disabilities get the most out of their new MacBook Air. With built-in support for vision, hearing, mobility and learning, you can create and do amazing things. |
| In the Box | 13-inch MacBook Air |
| 30W USB‑C Power Adapter (M2 with 8-core GPU) or 35W Dual | |
| USB‑C Port Power Adapter (M2 with 10-core GPU and 512GB storage) | |
| USB‑C to MagSafe 3 Cable (2m) |
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Chamberlain Music is an approved supplier for the DfE Musical Instruments, Equipment, & Technology Framework.
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