It's a very welcome (although sadly temporary) replacement to my three-year-old MacBook Air M1 model, which much as I love using that, is totally crushed by Apple's latest hardware. After setup ...

In 2020, the MacBook Air was one of the first three machines to make the switch from Intel processors to Apple Silicon in the form of the M1 chip. In 2022, it was joined by an M2 model.