Apple MacBook Air 15-inch (M5)
Bigger screen, still light
$1,499Checked November 1, 2026
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My short take
The 15.3-inch Air is 1.51 kg with a 66.5 Wh battery, and Apple lists it from $1,499. That is $200 more than the 13-inch for a 2880x1864 panel and the larger battery. It misses the 1.4 kg thin cutoff by 110 g.
The specs
- Display size
- 15.3 in
- Weight
- 1.51 kg
- Chip
- Apple M5, 10-core CPU
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 512 GB
- Battery capacity
- 66.5 Wh
- Graphics
- 10-core GPU
- Operating system
- macOS
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