MacBook Air M5 review: a small update for the ‘just right’ Mac

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A 15-inch MacBook Air M5 unfastened  and sitting betwixt  a MacBook Neo and MacBook Pro. Neo to the near of me. Pros are to the right. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge

Not overmuch has changed successful the caller MacBook Air for 2026: It present has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster retention starting astatine 512GB alternatively of 256GB. It's conscionable arsenic outstanding a machine arsenic past year's model, adjacent if it's a shame it's $100 much expensive.

The bigger alteration has happened to the Air. The MacBook Neo present exists, and it's an awesome small machine for $500 little than the basal 13-inch Air. The Neo's beingness doesn't invalidate the Air oregon marque it pointless, and I uncertainty the Neo volition cannibalize excessively overmuch of the Air's sales. The Air is simply a much capable, faster, and sleeker machine. Having the Neo beryllium beneath it does overgarment it successful a caller light, t …

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