16 MACWORLD DECEMBER 2021
MACUSER M2 MACBOOK AIR
It will be thinner and lighter than the
MacBook Pro.
No tapered design or fans.
Color options similar to 24-inch iMac’s.
Off-white keyboard and bezels.
Mini-LED likely, but no ProMotion.
MagSafe and Thunderbolt (USB-C),
but no SDXC slot or HDMI.
1080p webcam.
30W power adapter.
That confirms several of the rumors we’ve
heard before and paints a picture of a non-
Pro MacBook Pro. We expect the redesign to
bring a similar design language, with uniform
bezels and a new aluminum enclosure with a
slightly curved bottom edge. The new
MacBook Pro also introduced an all-black
keyboard well, which would presumably be
white on the MacBook Air.
As was the case with the 24-inch iMac
(fave.co/3AvIV7y), the white bezels are
likely to be a polarizing feature—and the
feature seems to indicate there won’t be a
notch—but the rest of the new laptop
looks like a nice improvement over the
current MacBook Air. Dylan reports that
Apple hasn’t decided whether to call the
new model the MacBook Air or revive the
MacBook name, but he says it will have a
starting price that’s “slightly” higher than
that of the current $999 MacBook Air.
The M2 processor (fave.co/3EwgyaD) is
expected to be built on the same architecture
as the M1 but to deliver faster speeds. Like
the A15 processor (fave.co/3D1Z7xU) in the
iPhone 13 and iPad mini, it will likely have new
high-performance
cores with higher
frequencies and
bigger caches. We can
probably expect a 15
percent speed boost
over the M1, along with
a GPU bump.
The MacBook Air
is expected to
launch in the first half
of 2022, possibly at
a spring event
alongside a new
iPhone SE (fave.
The new MacBook Air is expected to come with an M2 processor. co/3BwFjBx). ■