Apple's New M5 MacBook Air Hits $949 Record Low Price on Amazon

This is why it’s awesome they bumped up the specs on the base model to 16/512. For a lot of people (IMO), you can now bargain hunt the base model instead of trying to find rarer discounts on models with RAM/storage upgrades.

It's times like these when you have to stop and truly appreciate how far this tech has come. The insane amount of computing power in this form factor, for under $1k USD (even after all of the runaway inflation AND supply chain crunches)...it's insanely great.

This is why I wouldn't buy directly from Apple anymore. Too many deals to be had elsewhere.

The M5 MacBook Air is an awesome machine with an awesome processor, and awesome display.

However, since I tried the MacBook Neo, I’m in love with the smaller form factor. Not with the trackpad, and definitely not with the SoC that powers it, but such a compact body is really nice.

I know it’s not possible or economically viable for Apple to put an M5 inside the Neo, and I know that’s not going to happen, but for me it would be the ideal machine.

Hopefully, once the Neo gets the A19 Pro, it will have a better balance between specs, size and price.

While the Neo is amazing for the price, the SSD speeds on the M5 are like 5X that of the Neo.

That makes a noticeable difference in the experience, for any type of user.

(to say nothing of all the other upgrades on even a base MBA M5 vs a Neo)

Problem is with buying an Air now, is you’re kind of putting yourself on a shorter upgrade cycle. The Air will get a refreshed 120hz OLED in 2 years time, and it will be a must have upgrade. I feel the MBP is on a much longer upgrade, especially the base model, I’m not particularly excited about OLED or a touch screen, mostly because comparing my MBP to my IPP, the difference in display quality is already absolutely minimal. With this RAM crisis, the smart choice might be to spend money now, and keep your mac into the early 30s.

It would be an issue for those really wanting an oled air, if you're one of those people, then yea, maybe not the time to upgrade unless your old Mac is really on its last legs, but for me personally, for what I use my MacBook for, I could care less if it got a better screen. I find the screen on mine quite nice and very good quality. I went from the m2 to m5 because I can see price hikes coming in the near future, especially if they do end up doing those upgrades to the air, I highly doubt they would keep the same price as they do now.

So I rather get the latest and greatest now while the prices remained steady and now hold out much longer for things to stabilize eventually and hopefully by then, if the air got some meaningful upgrades, they will no longer cost a kidney to obtain lol

It's times like these when you have to stop and truly appreciate how far this tech has come. The insane amount of computing power in this form factor, for under $1k USD (even after all of the runaway inflation AND supply chain crunches)...it's insanely great.

I wish they could do this with houses.