Apple MacBook Air M5 launched: More storage, more power, and a higher price tag

Apple's most popular laptop, MacBook Air now gets the M5, more storage and faster SSD. Here are the details.

Apple’s MacBook Air has received its annual refresh, now powered by the M5 chipset, with more storage and improved connectivity. However, it comes with a price hike of around ₹20,000.

MacBook Air M5 starts with 512GB of base storage. (Apple)

By Shaurya Sharma

Shaurya Sharma is the Technology Editor at Hindustan Times Digital Streams, where he oversees technology coverage across digital and social platforms. With over eight years of experience across editorial, video production, and digital media, his work focuses on smartphones, AI, consumer gadgets, and shaping audience-first content strategies for modern tech consumers.

He began his career in 2018 as a fashion cinematographer before turning his lifelong passion for technology into a profession. From spending his childhood immersed in tech magazines, video games, and the latest gadgets to covering the global consumer tech industry today, technology has remained a constant throughout his journey.

Over the years, Shaurya has worked with some of India’s leading media organisations, including CNN-News18, Sportskeeda, and Guiding Tech, where he led video initiatives that combined strong editorial storytelling with engaging visual and social-first execution.

A graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Manipal University, Shaurya has reviewed hundreds of products across categories including smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, cameras, and wearables. Beyond work, he is passionate about animal welfare, environmental causes, and automobiles, particularly turbo-petrol cars

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Unveiled alongside the MacBook Pro models featuring the M5 Pro and M5 Max chipsets, the spotlight here is on the MacBook Air M5. Here’s everything you need to know about its price, availability, and more.

Apple MacBook Air M5 price in India, availability

The MacBook Air comes in two sizes, 13-inch and 15-inch, like last year, and the laptop will go on pre-order starting March 4. The 13-inch variant of the MacBook Air M5 will start at ₹1,19,900 or ₹1,08,900 for education, and the 15-inch variant will start at ₹1,44,900 or ₹1,33,900 for education. These laptops will be available in Sky Blue, Midnight, Starlight, and Silver colourways. They will be available starting March 11 across official Apple Stores, the Apple Online Store, and Apple’s authorised resellers.

What is new with the MacBook Air M5?

The MacBook Air M5 gets the brand-new M5 chipset, which, as per Apple, features a much faster CPU and a next-generation GPU with a Neural Engine in every core. It comes with up to a 10-core CPU and up to a 10-core GPU, and Apple says it delivers up to four times faster performance for AI tasks compared to the MacBook Air with the M4 chipset. It is also up to 9.5 times faster than the MacBook Air with the M1 chipset, its first in-house silicon for laptops, for AI tasks.

Apple says it also features faster unified memory at 153GB per second, which is a 28% improvement over the M4. Apart from this, Apple is doubling the starting storage with the M5 Air and offering a much faster SSD. The MacBook Air M5 now starts at 512GB of storage instead of 256GB, and it can be configured with up to a 4TB SSD. Apple also says this new SSD delivers two times faster read and write speeds compared to the previous generation.