MacBook Air (M2) Performance Compared to MacBook Air (M1): Testing conducted by Apple in May 2022 using preproduction 13‑inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M2, 8‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU and 24GB of RAM, as well as 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.