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Apple Releases M5 MacBook Air Upgrade
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Apple today announced the M5 MacBook Air, with pre-orders starting March 4 and deliveries beginning March 11. The updated Air uses the M5 chip—10 CPU cores, up to 10 GPU cores and Neural Accelerators—and Apple claims up to 4× faster AI versus M4 (9.5× versus M1); it doubles base SSD to 512GB, adds Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, supports up to 4TB, and starts at $1,099 (13") and $1,299 (15").
Key Points
- 1Introduces M5 chip with 10 CPU cores, up to 10 GPUs and Neural Accelerators
- 2Delivers up to 4× faster AI than M4 and 9.5× versus M1, boosting performance
- 3Enables practitioners to run heavier creative and AI tasks on a thin, portable laptop
Scoring Rationale
Strong official hardware update with measurable AI and storage gains; limited transformative novelty beyond generational improvements.
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