Apple’s MacBook Air has received its annual refresh, now powered by the M5 chipset with more storage and improved connectivity. However, its price has increased approx. $20,000.
Launched alongside MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chipsets, the focus here is the MacBook Air M5. Here’s everything you need to know about its pricing, availability, and more.
Like last year, the MacBook Air comes in two sizes: 13-inch and 15-inch, and the laptop will be available for pre-order starting March 4. The 13-inch model of MacBook Air M5 starts at $1,19,900 or $The education version is priced at 1,08,900 and the 15-inch version starts at $1,44,900 or $1,33,900 for education. The laptops are available in Sky Blue, Midnight, Starlight, and Silver. They will be available from March 11 at official Apple stores, the Apple online store and Apple authorized resellers.
The MacBook Air M5 comes with the new M5 chipset, which according to Apple features a faster CPU and next-generation GPU with a Neural Engine on each core. It comes with up to 10-core CPU and up to 10-core GPU, and Apple says it can perform AI tasks four times better than the MacBook Air with the M4 chipset. It’s also 9.5 times faster than the MacBook Air with the M1 chipset, its first internal chip for a laptop, to perform AI tasks.
Apple says it also has faster unified memory at 153GB per second, a 28% improvement over the M4. In addition to this, Apple has doubled the starting storage capacity of the M5 Air and offers a faster SSD. MacBook Air M5 storage now starts at 512GB instead of 256GB, and can be configured with up to a 4TB SSD. Apple also said that the new SSD’s read and write speeds are twice as fast as the previous generation.
Apple claims battery life of up to 18 hours. The 13.6-inch and 15.3-inch models feature Liquid Retina displays with 500 nits brightness. The laptop continues to feature a 12MP Center Stage camera that supports desktop view. It also comes with Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Apple wireless network chip N1.
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