{"id":516664,"date":"2026-03-03T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:20:20","slug":"apple-continues-its-product-drop-week-with-a-new-macbook-air-with-m5-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516664\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple continues it&#8217;s product drop week with a new MacBook Air with M5 processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eftm.com\/ads\/hp-banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/970x250px-Billboard.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The entry price of the Apple MacBook Air just jumped by $100 with the launch of the new MacBook Air with M5 today.  Now while Samsung blamed chip prices and demand, Apple can rightly assert that this price rise is justified by a doubling of the standard storage on MacBook Air \u2013 now 512GB on a faster SSD.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Apple-MacBook-Air-Pixelmator-Pro-and-Finder-with-Photos-260303-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272610\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>At $1,799 it\u2019s still a solid entry price for a Mac and with the latest M5 process it\u2019s now more powerful than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new MacBook Air with M5 brings incredible performance and even more capability to the world\u2019s most popular laptop,\u201d said John Ternus, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering. \u201cWith M5, MacBook Air powers through a wide range of tasks, from everyday productivity to creative workloads, and is even faster for AI. Now featuring double the starting storage, as well as Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, in a sleek and durable design with long battery life, MacBook Air is the perfect laptop for anyone who values the unrivalled combination of performance and portability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Available in the same four colours, Light Blue, Starlight, Silver and Midnight this is another \u201cunder the hood\u201d upgrade from Apple to keep the MacBook Air lineup at the cutting edge of the company\u2019s silicone offering. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eftm.com\/ads\/fetch-banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1940\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EFTM-Banner_Channels_NOV24_970x250.png\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Apple-MacBook-Air-ChatGPT-260303-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272611\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Also now featuring the Apple N1 wireless chip also brings WiFi 7, up from 6E on the previous model.<\/p>\n<p>MacBook Air with M5 is on pre-order from tomorrow, and is available March 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eftm.com\/author\/trevor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-29-at-4.13.46-pm.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trev is a Technology Commentator, Dad, Speaker and Rev Head.<\/p>\n<p>He produces and hosts several popular podcasts, EFTM,\u00a0 Two Blokes Talking Tech, Two Blokes Talking Electric Cars, The Best Movies You\u2019ve Never Seen, and the Private Feed. He is the resident tech expert for Triple M on radio across Australia, and is the resident Tech Expert on Channel 9\u2019s Today Show and appears regularly on 9 News, A Current Affair and Sky News Early Edition.<\/p>\n<p>Father of three, he is often found in his Man Cave.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eftm.com\/ads\/jbl-reflect-flow-banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/HAR1188_TechMedia_TOM3_970x250.gif\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=4H79EN5RA2L6S\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like this post? Buy Trev a drink!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eftm.com\/ads\/arlo-go-2-may-banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MARCH-FLASH-SALE_DIGI_970x250.png\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entry price of the Apple MacBook Air just jumped by $100 with the launch of the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1337,64,63,23149,16603,105],"class_list":["post-516664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-highlight","tag-macbook-air","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}