Business computersENERGY STAR certified
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M2)
24 GB notebook computer, model number A2681.
Memory
24 GB
Processor
Apple M2
Typical electricity use
8.5 kWh/yr
NPU installed
No
Of 980 certified notebook business computers, 48 have a lower typical electricity use than the MacBook Air 13-inch (M2) (8.5 kWh/yr).
Its certified typical electricity use of 8.5 kWh/yr costs about $1.11 a year at 13¢/kWh.
ENERGY STAR has certified this model 2 times, first in Oct 2025. The figures here are from the most recent certification.
- Maker
- Apple
- Model
- MacBook Air 13-inch (M2)
- Model number
- A2681
- Type
- Notebook
- Processor
- Apple M2
- CPU cores
- 8
- Memory
- 24 GB
- NPU installed
- No
- Storage
- SSD
- Screen
- 13.6 in
- Battery
- 52.6 Wh
- Operating system
- Mac OS
- Marketed as a workstation
- No
- Typical electricity use
- 8.5 kWh/yr
- Power in sleep
- 0.3 W
- Power at long idle
- 0.8 W
- Power when off
- 0.1 W
- On the market since
- Jun 2022
- ENERGY STAR certified
- 16 Oct 2025
Certified under the same record
The maker lists these as the same machine or a variant of it: MLXW3, MLXX3, MLXY3, MLY03, MLY13, MLY23, MLY33, MLY43, Z15S, Z15T, Z15W, Z15X, Z15Y, Z15Z, Z160.
Source: ENERGY STAR certified business computers dataset, US EPA, record 4513870, data build 2026-09-29. Figures are as the maker certified them. How we use this data.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IRU10 | Notebook | Core 7 250H | 24 GB | 14.9 kWh/yr |
| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 16IRU10 | Notebook | Core 7 250H | 24 GB | 15.8 kWh/yr |
| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14ARP10 | Notebook | Ryzen 7 | 24 GB | 14.1 kWh/yr |
| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14AHP10 | Notebook | Ryzen 7 | 24 GB | 13.7 kWh/yr |
| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15ARP10 | Notebook | Ryzen 7 | 24 GB | 16.8 kWh/yr |
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