Review: MacBook Air M2, love is not only in sight

First impressions with the MacBook Air M2

Once we open the MacBook Air we can notice two important things, the Liquid Retina screen, which now has a substantial improvement in brightness (it reaches 500 nits), in addition to the reduction of its edges. Oh, and also, in the center we find the famous notch that now houses a 1080p camera that makes video calls more decent. Be careful, in this model we do not yet have 1000 nits of brightness or ProMotion, so it is something to wait for a new version.

But the most important thing about this new MacBook Air is when you use it. Since its launch, there were many expectations about its performance and if it was better to opt for this instead of the new MacBook Pro and I can tell you that its use raises many questions, in the sense that they have similar performance.

From the outset, the autonomy it has is very close to that of the MacBook Pro M2 with 18 hours of battery, which means that for the average user of this type of computer it can be used practically all day and so it was in my case, using it for word processing, video calls, video review and I was still able to “save” some battery to use the next day.

Another key point of this model is that it does not have fans and has a heat “dispersion” system. This means that in normal use, the MacBook Air M2 doesn’t heat up over time or with the demands of having many applications running at the same time, so for an average user you won’t find any problems. Now, if you take it to the maximum level of capacity, you will notice a little heating and that the power drops, but it is in the least of cases.