MacBook Air (M2) Performance Compared to MacBook Air (M1): Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using pre-production 13″ MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU and 24GB of RAM; production MacBook Air systems with Apple M1, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU and 16GB of RAM, all configured with 2TB SSD; as well as production 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5–based MacBook Air systems with Intel UHD Graphics 617, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 tested using a complex 2-minute project with 4K ProRes 422 media. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air.