The MacBook Air 13-inch with M5 chip is the latest model of Apple’s bestselling laptop. The M5 model continues the aluminum body and silent, fanless design of the previous M4 chip model. It features 16 GB of unified memory and a 512 GB SSD and is available in four color options: Sky Blue, Midnight, Starlight, and Silver.
A do-it-all laptop ready to help you take charge of any situation
The M5 chip inside the new MacBook Air has a 10-core CPU. The CPU is split between four performance cores and six efficiency cores, and paired with an 8-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. The CPU handles everyday work like browser tabs, video calls, and document editing without breaking a sweat, and the GPU, with Apple’s new Neural Accelerators, gives the machine plenty of power for editing video, photo work in Lightroom, and on-device AI tasks that used to require a much heavier laptop.
Apple raised the bar for memory and storage for all models. For the MacBook Air M5, 16GB of unified memory is the baseline. Unified memory shares the same amount of RAM across the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine, which means the more of it you have, the better pretty much everything is going to perform. Additionally, it comes with a 512GB SSD, which is twice the capacity of previous generations of the base MacBook Air, so you have ample room for your photo libraries, music collections, and apps.
The 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display runs at 2560 by 1664 and supports one billion colors with 500 nits of brightness. True Tone adjusts the color temperature to match the room’s lighting, and the panel is sharp enough to read small text for hours without straining your eyes. A four-speaker sound system and a 12MP Center Stage front camera handle video calls and media playback.
Connectivity took a big step forward for the M5 generation. Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 are both built in for wireless networking. You also get two Thunderbolt 4 ports, a MagSafe 3 charging port, and a headphone jack. For biometrics, Apple included Touch ID, which sits in the top-right key of the Magic Keyboard for quick logins and Apple Pay. It lives up to its name as the laptop weighs just 2.7 pounds, so tossing it into a backpack doesn’t feel like packing a brick.
The 13-inch Apple MacBook Air with the M5 chip is currently on sale for $949, down from the MSRP of $1,099. If you’re still running an Intel MacBook or an old M1 Air, this is a great opportunity to grab Apple’s latest for a decent discount.
