M2 MacBook Air Deliveries Slip Into August

Midnight M2 MacBook Air - Image via Apple

11 JULY 2022 - Your mid-July, M2-powered MacBook Air is now your mid-August machine. MacRumors ran a piece on Friday - the day the machines went on sale - saying that deliveries for this coming Friday 15 July were dunzo.

Checking Sunday afternoon, both the entry level machine with the 8-core GPU and 256GB SSD and the higher-end model with the 10-core GPU and 512GB SSD showed delivery dates between 10 August and 17 August. Interestingly, adding whistles or bells makes the machine move faster. On either machine, any change I tried brought delivery ahead about a week, landing the fresh Air on my porch between 2 August and 9 August.

So, I wrote that and then I remembered about the various colors. Four of them from which to choose. The aforementioned dates were for the Midnight machines. While changing colors does change delivery dates a bit, Friday 15 July is off the table as far as deliveries go. For both machines off-the-rack, Starlight delivers between 3 August and 10 August. Same goes for Silver surfers, while Space Gray delivers between 27 July and 3 August. Just like their oh-so-blue-brother, changing variables like memory or storage does bring deliveries a head - somewhere between one day and one week, depending on the color.

Of course, there is still a chance of picking one up this Friday. Last week’s press release announcing the 8 July pre-orders said the machine will be available “in select Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Resellers, beginning Friday, July 15.”