Best MacBook 2024
The best Mac laptop for most people is the 13-inch MacBook Air with Apple's M2 processor.The 13-inch Air is great for web browsing, document work, coding, and light photo and video editing. And for those who want a bigger screen, better speakers, and slightly better thermal performance, we recommend the new 15-inch MacBook Air with the M2 processor as our upgrade pick.We still recommend the M1 MacBook Air as the budget MacBook pick. It's a fast, reliable laptop, and the new, 15-inch M2 MacBook has already sold for $200 off its list price since it was announced.
Recommended configuration
Processor: Eight-core Apple M2 CPU Storage: 256 GB SSD
Graphics: Eight-core Apple M2 GPU Screen: 2560×1664 IPS
Memory: 8 GB Tested battery life: 15.5 hours
The M2 MacBook Air has some great updates from the slightly older M1 model that we think make the device feel better to use. The 2022 M2 MacBook Air has a brighter display that lets you see the screen more clearly on sunny days. And it has a high-resolution webcam that lets you see a little clearer on video calls. Apple also added a MagSafe port, which allows a magnetic charging cable to be securely attached to the MacBook Air and can be harmlessly detached if a passerby's foot catches it in a coffee shop.
However, this laptop is not ideal for people who edit photos
videos or otherwise process large media files. Our tests showed that the laptop would get hot to the touch even a minute after exporting video or batch editing photos, to a level that would make the laptop uncomfortable to use. But for everyday work, browsing the web, watching movies and even playing App Store games, the M2 MacBook Air offers a number of great upgrades over the previous generation.
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