The Apple MacBook Air (M5) nails the essentials: a gorgeous display, excellent keyboard and trackpad, and useful software.

The MacBook Air with M5 feels predictable in the best way. It’s the latest updated piece of Apple’s hardware, so it features an upgraded Apple Silicon processor to make it faster, among small other ...

Apple refreshed the MacBook Air in March 2026, adding a faster M5 chip and faster SSD. The M5 MacBook Air is at the start of its product cycle, which means now is a good time to b ...

Early reviews praise the M5 MacBook Air for its performance and fast SSD speeds, but criticize the laptop's $100 higher price tag compared to previous models. Apple upgraded the MacBook Air with its ...

The MacBook Air M5 is what happens when Apple keeps refining an already excellent laptop instead of reinventing it. On paper, the upgrades feel modest. The design is unchanged, the display is still ...

The M5 Pro and M5 Max in the new MacBook Pros are interesting not because they deliver a solid speed increase for Apple’s fastest laptop processors but because they also include substantial ...

The more things change, the more the MacBook Air stays the same. It may not be much different from the model from last year or from 2022, but this is still a winning formula that works just right for ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's hard to believe that it's been almost four years since Apple gave the MacBook Air a serious glow-up. The 2022 model was a total redesign ...

MacBook Air now sits between the much more affordable, less powerful MacBook Neo, and the higher-end MacBook Pro. But reviews make clear that the M5 MacBook Air is still a powerhouse in its own right.

New, higher prices take some of the shine off the MacBook Neo, but Apple's other MacBooks are costlier now, too. Let's look at which of Apple's least-expensive MacBooks makes more sense for what you ...