Apple announced a new MacBook Air with the power of the M5 chip. The new MacBook Air has double the starting storage and improved wireless connectivity, all while staying thin, light and durable.
Pre-orders start March 4, with it going on sale beginning March 11. The laptop comes in sky blue, midnight, starlight and silver, and comes in 13- and 15-inch models.
The 13-inch MacBook Air M5 starts at $1,499 (or $1,359 for education), while the 15-inch MacBook Air starts at $1,799 (or $1,659 for education). That’s $100 more than the M4 variant.
The new M5 chip features a faster CPU and a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, which enables the MacBook Air to perform complex AI tasks and complete creative projects.
Further, the M5 chip offers up to a 10-core GPU, 4x faster performance for AI tasks than the MacBook Air with M4 and up to 9.5x faster performance than the MacBook Air with M1. It also has a third-generation ray-tracing engine for better gaming and 3D rendering.
The M5 also sports memory with 153GB/s of bandwidth, a 28 per cent improvement over the M4, for better multitasking and faster app launches.
The MacBook Air now starts at 512GB with a faster SSD and can be configured up to 4TB. And the Apple N1 wireless chip offers Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 for seamless connectivity.
Additionally, the MacBook Air M5 comes in either a 13.6- or 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and support for 1 billion colours for better vivid and sharper details to make text look very crisp.
It also offers up to 18 hours of battery life, a 12MP Center Stage camera and MacOS Tahoe out of the box.
Pre-orders for the new M5 MacBook Air will open on March 4, with full availability coming on the 11th.
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