‘The bleeding edge of computing power for everyday creatives’ — this is why I’m upgrading to the MacBook Air M5 after years of making do with my elderly Pro

Another Apple launch event has come and dropped a heap of exciting new gadgets into our laps. But while a lot of people have been discussing the surprise announcement of the more affordable MacBook Neo and the powerful new MacBook Pro, I’ve only got eyes for the new MacBook Air M5. In fact, I’m so enamored, I’ve decided it’s finally time to ditch my trusty but dusty MacBook Pro 2017 and belatedly join the 2020s.

For a laptop that’s an absurd nine years old, my MacBook Pro has been aging pretty gracefully — that is until the last few months, when its fraying LCD display flex cable has finally begun to give up the ghost. The colors are so broken that my Retina display looks more like the psychedelic horror show that was mid-1980s EGA computer graphics. Worse, the screen is criss-crossed with ...