- Apple has announced the new MacBook Air M5
- Its gets double the starting storage plus improved wireless connectivity
- You can pre-order the MacBook Air M5 from March with prices starting at $1,099 for the 13-inch version
The MacBook Air M4 has reigned supreme at the top of our guide the world’s best laptops for months — and now Apple has replaced it with an even more powerful M5 version.
As the rumors predicted, MacBook Air M5’s new chip is its main upgrade, with that excellent design and build remaining unchanged. It also has the same ports, with twin Thunderbolt 4 ports on the left side with support for up to two external displays.
Apple says that new M5 chip will give you four times faster performance for AI tasks than the M4 version, and 1.9x faster performance in the likes of Topaz Video when doing AI video enhancement.
The MacBook Air M5 also comes standard with 512GB storage (twice as much as before) and can be configured up to 4TB for the first time. You can pre-order the new laptop from March 4, with prices starting at $1,099 for the 13-inch version and $1,299 for the 15-inch model.
This is a breaking story — we’ll update it with more official information very soon…
