Hands-on with the new, more colorful, M2-powered MacBook Air
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#60259)
The MacBook Air has been an iconic laptop design since Steve Jobs slid it out of a manila envelope in 2008. This year's model, which Apple just announced at WWDC and is also the first Apple laptop to come with an M2 chip, abandons the famous wedge shape but also improves almost everything else about the Air.
The wedge is gone!The first thing you notice? Colors! The new design is 11mm thick and weighs 2.7 pounds, and while it is now a more traditional slab-shaped design, it comes in a very handsome dark blue called midnight" and a light gold called starlight" in addition to the familiar silver and space gray. They're not quite as colorful as, say, the new iMacs, but the midnight color is a particularly cool dark...