WWDC 2022: New Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Announced: Prices In India, Specs And More

Apple, at its WWDC annual event, announced the new MacBook Air alongside a 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip.

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip will be available in India at select Apple Authorised resellers starting next month. Image: Apple

Apple, at its WWDC annual event, announced the new MacBook Air alongside a 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip. The tech giant also announced the India prices of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The India price of the Apple MacBook Air with M2 chip has been set at Rs 119,900 and Rs 109,900 for education while the India price of the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro with M2 chip has been set at Rs 129,900 and Rs 119,900 for education. Apple has set the price of the 35W Dual USB-C Port Power Adapter at Rs 5,800.

The Apple MacBook Air 2022 with 8GB Unified memory + 256GB storage variant will cost Rs 1,19,900 the 8GB Unified memory + 512GB SSD variant model will cost Rs 1,49,900. The Apple MacBook Air 2022 arrives in Midnight, Starlight, Space Gray and Silver colour variants.

Apple MacBook Air 2022 and MacBook Pro availability in India

According to the Cupertino-based tech giant, the MacBook Air 2022 and the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new M2 chip will be available in India at select Apple Authorised resellers starting next month. However, Apple did not announce a fixed date for the same.

The new Apple MacBook Pro includes up to 20 hours of battery life, alongside an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU. It features 24GB of memory and 2TB of SSD storage space. At a starting price of $1,299, the new Apple MacBook Pro M2 is the most affordable performance laptop from the company. According to Apple, the Pro Res video conversions can run nearly three times faster on it.

“We’re so excited to bring our new M2 chip to the world’s two most popular laptops — the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, said in a statement.

The system-on-a-chip design of M2 chip is built using enhanced, second-generation 5nm technology, and consists of 20 billion transistors which is 25 per cent more than M1 chip. The additional transistors improve features across the entire chip, including the memory controller that delivers 100GB/s of unified memory bandwidth which is 50 per cent more than M1. 

The M2 chip also comes with Apple’s next-generation GPU with up to 10 cores which is two more than M1 chip.