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Mar 3, 2026 4:11 PM

AI Takes Center Stage: Apple Launches M5 MacBook Air, Pro And New XDR Display

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) kicked off Tuesday with a wave of product announcements, rolling out new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lineups alongside a revamped Studio Display family, a broad hardware push that puts AI performance front and center across its Mac ecosystem.

The announcements cover four products: MacBook Air with M5, MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, and a new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR.

MacBook Air Gets M5, Doubled Storage

The MacBook Air moves to the M5 chip, with the base configuration now shipping with 512 gigabyte (GB) of storage, double what the previous generation offered. The new Solid State Drive (SSD) delivers 2 times faster read and write speeds than the prior model, per Apple’s testing. Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 arrive via Apple’s new N1 wireless chip.

Key MacBook Air with M5 specs at launch:

10-core CPU and up-to-10-core Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with Neural Accelerators

Up to 4 times faster AI performance versus MacBook Air with M4

Up to 18 hours battery life

Available in sky blue, midnight, starlight, and silver

Starts at $1,099 (13-inch) and $1,299 (15-inch)

MacBook Pro ...