However, the body accommodates a slightly larger battery that gets you a couple more hours of battery life (according to Apple's claims) and 'active cooling,' otherwise known as a fan. Yeah, it's not a big difference the Pro is actually 0.17-inch thicker - and it weighs a little more, too. This means the Air is ever so slightly deeper the Air is 8.46 inches (21.5 centimeters) compared to the Pro at 8.36 inches (21.24 centimeters). The 13-inch Pro uses a 13.3-inch display. With the Air M2, Apple increased the screen size to 13.6 inches. The smallest MacBook with the longest battery life Still, people might really be attached to having Pro in the name, and having an Air, regardless of what's inside, is unfathomable. With the redesigned M2-based Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is now outdated in design and features by comparison, aside from the new chip. At least before Apple's M1 chips arrived and then the Air could handily compete with the 13-inch Pro. Anyone serious about getting work done, especially anything creative or otherwise graphically demanding, wouldn't consider anything less than a MacBook Pro. The MacBook Air, however good a laptop it is, is the entry-level MacBook. 13.6-inch 2,560x1,664-pixel Liquid Retina (500 nits brightness)ġ3.3-inch 2,560x1,600-pixel Retina (500 nits brightness)ģ0-watt USB-C (8-core GPU), 35-watt dual USB-C (10-core GPU)Īfter talking with my colleagues on CNET's computers team, Lori Grunin, Joseph Kaminski and Dan Ackerman (who got hands-on with the new Air), here are the five reasons we came up with as to why Apple is keeping the 13-inch MacBook Pro around and why someone might choose it over the updated MacBook Air.

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