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Apple unveiled a new MacBook Air today, and apart from the new M5 chip, things don't look remarkably different. Sure, it's getting a mild refresh, but maybe not in the way most people would want. Namely, it's more expensive — a $100 price bump across all models. In exchange, the MacBook Air M5 does get faster performance and double the storage.
If you placed the MacBook Air M4 and the M5 in front of me, I wouldn't be able to tell which was which. The M5 offers an overall CPU/GPU performance boost, along with some extra storage and double the file transfer speeds. Still, I didn't expect a radical change, but I wish we got more for that extra $100.
It's not worth jumping to the MacBook Air M5 if you've got the M4 unit already, but if you're working with an older model, then it may be worth the switch, especially if you're a professional. Like the rest of Apple's new suite of products, pre-orders start at 9:15AM ET on March 4. I'd wait until full reviews are published before committing to spending money, though. Still, if all you care about are the specs and what they mean, we've got a pretty good idea of all that.
MacBook Air M5 vs. MacBook Air M4: Performance and battery lifeNaturally, the biggest difference between the MacBook Air M5 and the MacBook Air M4 is their chipsets. While the price did go up, we also got double the storage in the MacBook Air M5, jumping from 256GB to 512GB at the base configuration for both sizes. Upgraded configurations start at 1TB.
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Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government, but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard. At the top, Claude beat out both ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit at the second and third spots on Apple's free apps charts.
The sudden surge in user downloads isn't random. It follows news that President Trump has barred any federal agency from using Anthropic's Claude or other AI tools after the AI company refused to concede on certain guardrails. After declining to have its AI models be used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, Anthropic was also threatened with a "supply-chain risk" label by the Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The very public spat led to a wave of user support that finally allowed Claude to dethrone OpenAI's ChatGPT on the App Store as the most downloaded free app.
While OpenAI has stepped into Anthropic's shoes after agreeing to a deal with the Department of Defense, the CEO still offered up some thoughts about the debacle during an AMA on X. Even though Claude is a competing model,
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