Apple announced tonight that the MacBook Air equipped with the M2 processor will be available for pre-order on Friday, July 8, and will be officially launched on the 15th, starting at 9,499 yuan in China.
Apple’s new MacBook Air notebooks are on sale, which makes notebook manufacturers in the Wintel alliance worried. Sources from the supply chain say that these manufacturers are worried that once Apple’s new MacBook Air is launched,Then in the high-end market of $1,000 to $1,500, the share of the Wintel camp will be squeezed by Apple.
Wintel Alliance refers to PC computers with Intel CPU and Microsoft Windows system. It has been the main force of PCs for many years. However, in the high-end PC market, Apple’s MacBook has always been very influential. In the past two years, the self-developed M1/M2 processor has been upgraded. After the device, the advantages of thin and light notebooks such as MacBook Air are more obvious.
It is reasonable for these manufacturers to worry that they will not be able to beat the M2 version of the MacBook Air, because although the price of this generation of MacBook Air has increased,But both in terms of design and performance, the new MacBook Air brings huge upgrades.
The screen of the M2 version of the MacBook Air has been upgraded to a 13.6-inch notch screen with a brightness of 500nit. The thickness of the whole machine is only 11.3mm, the weight is 2.7 pounds, and the volume is reduced by 20%.
As for the performance of the M2 processor, compared with the 10-core x86 notebook processor, the performance under the same power consumption (15W) leads by 90%; compared with the 12-core notebook processor, 25% of the power consumption can bring 87% of the performance.
In GeekBench 5, the main frequency of the M2 is identified as 3.49GHz, the single-core score is 1919, and the multi-core score is 8928.Compared with the MBP of the M1 model, the main frequency is increased by 9%, the single core is increased by 12%, and the multi-core is increased by 20%.
Even if the test data officially announced by Apple is watery, the M2 version of the MacBook Air can meet daily office work and even video editing. The latter type of tasks are also specially optimized by Apple.
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