What to expect from Apple’s new MacBook Air
What to expect from Apple’s new MacBook Air
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Publish Date: 2026-03-01 01:18:00
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The laptop will be powered by Apple’s M5 chip
What’s the story
Apple is gearing up to unveil an updated version of its MacBook Air, alongside a budget-friendly MacBook model.
The upcoming MacBook Air will be powered by Apple’s latest M5 chip, which was first introduced with last year’s iPad Pro and MacBook Pro models.
The M5 chip is built on third-generation 3nm technology and features a CPU with up to 10 cores and a GPU with up to 10 cores.
What we know about the M5 chip
The M5 chip offers 3.5 times the performance of the previous generation, M4 chip.
Its multithreaded CPU performance is up to 15% faster than that of the M4, while GPU performance is a whopping 30% faster.
Each GPU core now has a Neural Accelerator, which boosts speeds for AI workloads that rely on GPUs.
Unified memory bandwidth will also see an upgrade
The M5 chip also features a unified memory bandwidth of 153GB/s, nearly 30% better than the M4’s.
This architecture allows the chip to use a single…
