The biggest consideration with the Air M2 is the price if you need to upgrade much from the $1,199 base model. That first will be particularly welcome to those that are using the Air M2 on the go and may be faced with less than optimal lighting conditions.

The list of upgrades also includes a brighter display, a quad-speaker array and the new 1080p webcam. The fact that it does all this while staying whisper quiet and cool without fans remains astounding. You also get a nice performance bump and it still delivered 14 hours and 6 minutes in our battery life test, placing it easily ahead of the Windows competition and ridiculously so when factoring in performance. The notch in the display isn't my favorite design choice, but the rest of the changes are great with the addition of MagSafe charging freeing up those two Thunderbolt 4 ports for other purposes. And it's a pretty distinctive screen break - leaving a glowing white line down the middle of the display - so we know why it's happened even if people are evasive about how the damage happened.While most will be happy with the MacBook Air M1, there's no denying the appeal of the new design and of course chip inside the MacBook Air M2.

But consequently, the number of screen breakages are up.

'It makes sense, people are using video more and more, and it can feel intrusive, so being able to slide a cover across the camera offers some privacy even mid-meetings where people might not want to disconnect. 'What we've been told is that since people have started to work and study from home more, the use of camera covers has gone up dramatically,' the repair tech told me. I spoke to an Apple repair technician, who, on condition of anonymity, gave ZDNet a rundown of the problem. Covering the built-in camera might also interfere with the ambient light sensor and prevent features like automatic brightness and True Tone from working.' 'If you close your Mac notebook with a camera cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances. Apple didn't say, 'don't use a camera cover.' Apple clearly said: 'Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera.'

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