Apple Announces MacBook Air With M5 Chip and 512GB Base Storage

Source: MacRumors

Overview

Apple announced refreshed MacBook Air models featuring the M5 chip and a higher base SSD capacity.

M5 Chip

• 10‑core CPU, described by Apple as the world’s fastest CPU cores.
• Configurable with up to 10 GPU cores, each with Neural Accelerators, delivering up to 4× faster AI performance than the M4‑based MacBook Air.
• Enhanced shader cores and a third‑generation ray‑tracing engine.
• Faster unified memory with 153 GB/s bandwidth, a 28 % improvement over the M4.

Connectivity

The new MacBook Air includes Apple’s custom N1 wireless chip, supporting Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

Storage

• Base storage starts at 512 GB, configurable up to 4 TB.
• SSD performance is 2× faster for read and write compared to the previous generation.

This article first appeared on MacRumors.com.