MacBook Air 15-inch (M5)
Currently soldApple M5
Price unavailable for United KingdomChip
Apple M5
Display
15.3″
Memory
16–32 GB
Storage
512–4096
Overview
- Type
- Notebook
- Announced
- —
- Released
- —
- Colours
- Midnight, Silver, Sky Blue, Starlight
Chip & performance
- Chip
- Apple M5
- CPU cores
- 10
- GPU cores
- 10
- Neural Engine
- 16 cores
Memory & storage
- Unified memory
- 16–32 GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 153 GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB – 4TB
Display
- Type
- Liquid Retina (LED-backlit IPS)
- Size
- 15.3″
- Resolution
- 2880-by-1864
- Pixel density
- 224 ppi
- Peak brightness
- 500 nits
- ProMotion
- No
- Nano-texture option
- No
Battery & power
- Video playback
- Up to 18 hrs
- Capacity
- 66.5 Wh
- Power adapter
- 40W Dynamic Power Adapter (60W Max)
Ports & connectivity
- Thunderbolt
- Thunderbolt 4
- Thunderbolt ports
- 2
- HDMI
- No
- USB-A ports
- 0
- SDXC card slot
- No
- Ethernet
- —
- MagSafe
- Yes
- Headphone jack
- Yes
- Max external displays
- 2
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)
- Bluetooth
- Bluetooth 6
- Camera
- 12MP Center Stage camera
Physical
- Dimensions
- —
- Weight
- 1510 g
- Touch ID
- Yes
- Touch Bar
- No
Software
- macOS
- Supported on the current OS
Field-level sources
Individual specifications can carry their own evidence and verification — not one blanket source. Some values are Apple-published, others come from regulatory filings or teardowns, and some are explicitly not disclosed.
chip.nameApple M5Apple-confirmed
chip.cpuCores10Apple-confirmed
chip.gpuCoresBase10Apple-confirmed
chip.gpuCoresMax10Apple-confirmed
chip.neuralEngineCores16Apple-confirmed
memory.baseGb16 GBApple-confirmed
memory.maxGb32 GBApple-confirmed
memory.bandwidthGBs153 GB/sApple-confirmed
macStorage.baseGb512 GBApple-confirmed
macStorage.maxGb4096 GBApple-confirmed
display.technologyLiquid Retina (LED-backlit IPS)Apple-confirmed
display.sizeInches15.3 inApple-confirmed
display.resolution2880-by-1864Apple-confirmed
display.pixelsPerInch224 ppiApple-confirmed
display.maxBrightnessNits500 nitsApple-confirmed
display.proMotionfalseApple-confirmed
display.nanoTextureOptionfalseApple-confirmed
battery.videoHours18 hrsApple-confirmed
battery.capacityWh66.5 WhApple-confirmed
powerAdapter40W Dynamic Power Adapter (60W Max)Apple-confirmed
ports.thunderboltThunderbolt 4Apple-confirmed
ports.thunderboltCount2Apple-confirmed
ports.usbA0Apple-confirmed
ports.hdmifalseApple-confirmed
ports.sdxcfalseApple-confirmed
ports.magsafetrueApple-confirmed
ports.headphonetrueApple-confirmed
externalDisplaysMax2Apple-confirmed
camera12MP Center Stage cameraApple-confirmed
wifiWi-Fi 7 (802.11be)Apple-confirmed
bluetoothBluetooth 6Apple-confirmed
touchIdtrueApple-confirmed
touchBarfalseApple-confirmed
weightGrams1510 gApple-confirmed
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