What to expect from the upcoming MacBook Air 2022: Apple M2 chip, screen without “rabbit ears”, MagSafe charging…?

It’s been more than a year since Apple first introduced the MacBook Air M1. This is the first MacBook along with the 13-inch MacBook Pro to be equipped with the Apple M1 chip with ARM architecture, for powerful performance as well as impressive battery life in the ultrabook segment.

According to some leaked information, Apple is developing a version of MacBook Air M2, aka MacBook Air 2022 and will be introduced soon in the near future. With the upgraded version, what can users expect?

Many previous rumors said that Apple will redesign the new MacBook Air with a more modern appearance instead of the old design that first appeared on the 2018 line. This is also a factor that MacBook Air users have been looking forward to for a long time. , especially the new design will also come with a new screen with thinner borders, which may be curved in all 4 corners of the screen for soft visual effects. However, unlike the Pro series, the MacBook Air will not have a “rabbit ears” screen.

In addition, the new MacBook Air will also have more youthful color options like how Apple designed the iPad Air and iMac M1 lines. There will probably be at least 4 or 5 different color options.

In addition, the new design will also have more space for Apple to equip the MacBook Air 2022 with more connectivity ports such as USB-C Thunderbolt, HDMI, MagSafe charging as well as an SD memory card slot. Even so, it’s still possible that Apple will keep these ports exclusively for the Pro version.

The next big change is expected by users in terms of performance. MacBook Air 2022 will come with Apple M2 chip. According to GizChina, this M2 chip can be developed on the 4nm process, for improved performance as well as optimal power consumption by increasing transistors on a certain area.

A leaked source revealed that the Apple M2 will include 12 CPU cores, 4 more than the Apple M1 on the current 13-inch MacBook Air/Pro. In addition, the number of GPU cores has also been increased from 7 to 16. Thus, the M2 chip will have the same parameters as the M1 Pro and M1 Max, although the overall performance does not depend entirely on the number of CPU and GPU cores. In addition, the new M2 chip will also remove the limit on maximum RAM capacity as well as allow output to many different discrete screens instead of just one as for the current M1 chip.

With the above information, it is clear that the MacBook Air 2022 will be an upgradeable version to look forward to for technology users. However, the launch date of this product has not been revealed yet. From now until the end of the year, Apple has 3 to 4 big events left, including the spring event in March or April, the WWDC event in June, the new iPhone launch event in September and one more small event that could happen in the future. held in November. The new MacBook Air will be introduced at one of these events.