I can't believe I'm saying this, but a more expensive MacBook Air M5 is wonderful news — here's why

I cannot believe I am saying this out loud, but the $100 more expensive 13-inch MacBook Air M5 is wonderful news, not because I like paying more, but because the base model promises to solve my biggest pain point: lack of storage.

For months now, I have been struggling with low storage space messages and functional roadblocks on the MacBook Air 13-inch M4.

The $999 system, which I still admittedly love, shipped with a 256GB SSD, which I once considered ample space for most of my work. But over time, I chewed through all but a few gigs of it, causing the system to send me alarming out-of-storage-space messages and "make space before installing this macOS update" alerts.