Best MacBook Air to Buy in 2026: M5 vs M4 Deals and MacBook Neo
If I were buying a MacBook Air in 2026, I would start with the 13-inch MacBook Air M5 with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage. That is the boring answer. It is also the useful answer. The M5 Air is not worth buying because every M4 Air suddenly became slow. It is worth buying because Apple fixed the most annoying base-model compromise: storage. The new Air starts at 512GB, adds Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, keeps the fanless body, and still starts in normal MacBook Air territory instead of drifting into MacBook Pro money. The M4 Air is still a very good laptop. It becomes the smarter buy only when the discount is real enough to matter. A $50 or $100 gap is not enough if you are giving up the M5 model’s 512GB base storage. A $250 to $350 gap can be different. That is the whole game. ...