★★★★★ 5
A Best Macbook…..Excellent performance , light weight, a thin profile, at a very decent price!
Capacity: 16GB Unified Memory | 512GB SSD Storage, Color: Midnight, Set: Without AppleCare+
I’ve owned perhaps 15 Apple laptops over the last 20 years or so. My last two were a Macbook Pro and Air, both with the “M” chip.
I sold the Pro because it was too heavy and bulky. It had the M1 PRO chip. My primary last laptop was the Air with an M2 processor. It excelled at everything I needed to do, but, was the base model with 256GB storage and the wifi 6 protocol was for me was not adequate for my 1GB up/down FIOS service. The wifi proved stable, but, slower in speed due to not being wifi 7.
I updated to the new Air M5 to get full speeds on wifi 7, a base hard drive capacity that was twice my older model and with hopes, a tad more battery life for each charge.
I can state quite accurately that the wifi 7 speeds on this new Macbook Air are far better than my older wifi 6 model. I’m getting an average of 950 mbps up and down with this new Air using a TP-Link BE230 I purchased from Amazon. That’s almost to my plan speed and wireless from a room away from my router.
My base Macbook Air M5 is in fact lower in price now as I post this review than the additional $65 in price that I paid for it a short time ago!
With Apple improving and increasing it chip speeds for the M series and offering a light, thin and powerful laptop like the Air that’s far lower in price than a PRO model, the Air M5 series are the way to go!
I truly believe the Macbook Air will be the winner for the best combination of speed, great price and very adequate performance, for the majority of users!
I’ve been a Macbook owner and user for a long while and this latest model is to me, the best one I have owned yet!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2026
