Although the MacBook Air has long played second fiddle to the better-spec'd Pro model, it's certainly no slouch. That's particularly true of the new 15-inch MacBook Air, which Apple has just announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
According to Apple, the new fanless model is both the first 15-inch MacBook Air and – at a thickness of just 11.5 mm – the world's thinnest laptop of its screen size. It tips the scales at a claimed 3.3 lb (1.5 kg), and boasts up to 18 hours of battery life.
The Liquid Retina display is reportedly twice as sharp and 25% brighter than the display of a comparable PC laptop. Its sound system has also been improved, as it now sports six speakers – two tweeters and two sets of force-cancelling woofers.
Some of the 15-inch MacBook Air's other features include a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, MagSafe charging, two Thunderbolt ports for connecting accessories (and up to a 6K external display), along with a 3.5-mm headphone jack.
Processing is handled by an 8-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. Apple's M2 chip delivers 100GB/s of memory bandwidth and supports up to 24GB of fast unified memory, allowing for up to 12 times faster processing than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air. The computer comes with macOS Ventura preinstalled.
The 15-inch MacBook Air can be ordered now via the Apple website – in color choices of midnight, starlight, silver and space gray – with prices starting at US$1,299. It will be available in stores starting June 13th.
Source: Apple
We don't need thinner, its easier to bend has super throttled power because no cooling, and imagine how much more battery you could put in if it were .1" thicker and nobody would notice!