MacBook Air (M5)
Launched 11 March 2026
137 days ago
£1,299 or £1,199
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Product Information:
MacBook Air is Apple's lightweight MacBook built for productivity, coding and creative work. It is available in 2 sizes, 13-inch or 15-inch.
Who is this Mac for?
MacBook Air is designed for everyday users & multitaskers who have lots of windows or tabs open at once.
It's also great for travel thanks to the thin & light-weight design.
Design
Aluminium enclosure available in Sky Blue, Silver, Starlight or Midnight.
Input
Magic Keyboard & force-touch trackpad with haptic feedback.
Display
13.6-inch or 15.3-inch Retina Display.
Ports
2x Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports, MagSafe 3 for charging and a headphone jack.
Camera & Audio
12MP Centre Stage front camera & Four-speaker sound system (13" model) or Six-speaker sound system with force-cancelling woofers (15" model).
Chip
The chip that powers MacBook Air is the latest M5 Apple Silicon, which debuted in iPad & MacBook Pro, October 2025.
Base Chip:
- 10-Core CPU
- 8-core GPU
Upgraded Chip Option:
- 10-Core CPU
- 10-core GPU
M5 features hardware-accelerated ray tracing, a 16-core neural engine and neural accelerators for AI and 120 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Memory & Storage Upgrades
Base Configuration:
- 16GB memory
- 512GB storage
Memory upgrades:
- 24GB
- 32GB
Storage upgrades:
- 1TB
- 2TB
- 4TB
Other upgrades
Upgrading to the 15-inch model gives you better speakers and an extra 2 GPU cores.