For most applications that involve manipulating static content (Graphic Design, Photography, web design etc), the M2 MacBook Air works absolutely fine and is zippy and fast. The computer is quiet because it has no fans and is passively cooled. The MacBook Air is a powerful silent computer. That amongst other things makes the Air an incredible work and travel computer. Apple has rated the battery as being able to do 15 hours of wireless web browsing and up to 18 hours of video playback. I found myself using it all day and not needing a charge. The battery life on the MBA is incredible. The funny thing about the power adapter, is that you may not find yourself using it too often. The one downside about 35 and 30 what charger is neither offers fast charging, but if you have the 67W adapter, that will support fast charging.All of these adapters work with the mag safe cable. This is a great design if you’re trying to charge a phone or are using an iPad for a second screen with sidecar.I suspect that as the Continuity Camera, an option to use an iPhone as a webcam, rolls out, that having your iphone resting behind your computer during most of the day will make great use of the second charger on the 35 watt adapter. The MBA M2 that I’ve been testing came with the 35 watt adapter that allows for multiple charging ports. While so much of the design language is taken from the new MBP, this is a thinner laptop with Mag Safe, and fewer ports. However, when directly compared to a 14in.’ MacBook Pro, which was less than a pound heavier (3.5 lbs.), the difference was clear, and the MacBook Air feels really light. At 2.7 lbs, it didn’t seem unusually light mainly because the sturdy, yet thin (11.3mm) design makes it feel substantial and hardy. In true MacBook Air fashion, this thing is very lightweight. While there are 4 colors in total, I think the MacBook Air begs to get the iMac treatment with their 7 new vibrant colors. They’re all very business professional, with Starlight and Midnight being the two new colors. Speaking of color, there are four: Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and Midnight. If you can avoid directly touching that, you’ll be fine, but if you do, that’s fine because fingerprints easily wipe away. On the starlight colorway, fingerprints don’t appear on any part of the computer other than the glossy apple logo. Typically I like to be loud when I’m going “all gold everything,” but this is a much classier take on an all gold laptop. In better lighting conditions, the gold is more apparent. So subtle that at first glance it appears to be the standard silver/gray. Once stars are hot enough to be emitting more green than red, they are emitting enough blue to appear white-ish.For this review I got to take a look at the starlight color. Note that the curve traced out by various temperatures happens to miss the green region - you will never see a green star. This is the same phenomenon behind glowing hot metal, so the colors are much the same. This image shows roughly what colors you might see a blackbody as. Take the emitted spectrum at a given temperature, convolve it with a response function for human vision (something people still debate the details of), and you get the perceived overall color. Blackbody spectra form a one-parameter family, usually parameterized by the effective temperature. Note that because stars are roughly blackbody emitters, you won't see every color. Sirius is about 0 on this scale Betelgeuse is almost 2. In the B-V case, a larger number means a redder star. Basically, you take a star's luminosity in two different, standard, narrow-ish bandpasses - such as B (blue) or V (visible or green) - and take the logarithm of the ratio of luminosities. In fact, stars have a color index associated with them. A southern sky equivalent would be the Jewel Box, though I have not seen that one personally. You need binoculars or a telescope to separate the two stars, but then you clearly see one as bluish and the other as orange. My favorite example of diversity is the binary system of Albireo. The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, is notably blue. For instance, Betelgeuse can be found on the shoulder of Orion, and it is clearly red. However, even with the naked eye, you can clearly see a whole variety of colors on a dark night. ![]() Many stars are very far from white! The reason one may get the impression they are all white is just that our color vision is pretty bad when looking at dim objects.
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