It appears that reviewers with early access to the new Apple MacBook Air are busy evaluating the performance of its new M2 processor, as evidenced by the flood of Mac 14.2 scores on Geekbench.
Unsurprisingly, the M2 in the fanless MacBook Air scores the same as the M2 inside the MacBook Pro 13, which has a single fan. Geekbench is a fast benchmark and does not stress the chipset and, in turn, does not generate enough heat to cause throttling.
However, some early reviews of the M2 have shown that the new processor gets hotter than the M1 and this can lead to worse sustained performance. These tests are based on the single fan MacBook Pro 13 and will likely lead to the same result on the fanless MacBook Air.
But we expect the MacBook Pro 14 and 16 laptops to be well-equipped to handle the new silicon, once it comes to them in Pro, Max, and Ultra form.
The new MacBook Air on the left, the new MacBook Pro 13 on the right
The MacBook Air was pre-ordered on July 8th and will ship on July 15th, a few weeks after the older M2-equipped MacBook Pro 13. In addition to the updated processor (which has an 18% faster CPU and 35% faster GPU), the Air is thinner, it carries a new 13.6-inch 2560x1664px IPS LCD with 500 nits of brightness, MagSafe and two USB-C ports and a new 1080p webcam.
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