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MacBook Air M2 8GB

macOS $799

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Chip

Apple M2

RAM

8GB unified memory

GPU

8-core GPU

AI accelerator

16-core Neural Engine

Upgrading to M3/M4 with 16GB opens up reasoning models and much faster inference.

MacBook Air M3 · $999

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