Following up on Apple’s opening its M2 MacBook Air preorders on Friday, while the orders are going through, some upgraded options are already facing shipping delays. There are a few configurations that could be delayed as late as August.
As soon as preorders opened, shipping estimates for many M2 MacBook Air configurations slipped to July 18 in less than two hours. Three configurations were still available for launch day availability on July 15 in the U.S. These included the base model, with its 8-core GPU, in Space Gray. The other two were Space Gray and Starlight base models with a 10-core GPU.
As of late Friday, only the 10-core Space Gray option still showed a delivery estimate of July 15. Other base models reported shipping estimates between July 25 and August 2 with Apple’s free shipping. The 10-core Midnight MacBook Air is listed as arriving between August 9 and August 16.
The M2 MacBook Air is available in Midnight, Starlight, Space Gray, and Silver colors. The prices begin at $1,199 for a model with 8GB of Unified Memory, 256GB of SSD storage, an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU. Users can order a higher-end configuration with a 10-core GPU and 512GB of SSD storage starting at $1,499.
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Via The Mac Observer and MacRumors