MacBook Air (M5)

Launched 11 March 2026

137 days ago

MacBook Air (M5)

£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.