https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/14/macbook-air-m2-review/

Our MacBook Pro review felt strangely incomplete when it dropped roughly two weeks back. In many ways, my experience with the laptop was defined as much by the product I was reviewing as it was by the absence of one I’d only briefly interacted with during a hands-on scrum at WWDC some weeks prior.

In many ways, the 13-inch 2022 MacBook Pro was a casualty of timing, a product of an earlier era, with new brains controlling the same vestigial organs. From the outside, it seemed the cadence of hardware refreshes has had some difficulty matching Apple’s progress on silicon over the past two years. It was something we saw with the first round of M1 systems — new chips in old shells.