Apple’s least-interesting M2-powered MacBook will be available on June 24

Enlarge / The 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro. (credit: Apple)

Apple's all-new MacBook Air design got most of the attention at WWDC last week, but you won't be able to buy one until next month. In the meantime, Apple's other, less-interesting M2-equipped laptop, the 13-inch MacBook Pro, will be available for preorder starting on Friday, June 17, the company announced today. The laptop will begin arriving (and will show up in Apple's stores) on June 24.

The laptop's main improvement is the M2 chip, which, according to Apple, features 18 percent faster CPU performance and up to 35 percent faster GPU performance than the M1 (in the version with the 10-core GPU). The M2 also features improved video encoding and decoding capabilities, with a ProRes video engine and decoding support for multiple 4K and 8K video streams.

The M2 also supports up to 24GB of memory, up from a maximum of 16GB for the M1. But like the M1, the M2 chip only supports a maximum of two displays—the laptop's internal screen and one external monitor at up to 6K. If you need to attach multiple monitors to your Mac, you'll need the M1 Pro and Max chips in the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros.