The new MacBook Air M5 costs $100 more - here's what that gets you

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Apple announces MacBook Air with M5 processor.
• It costs $100 more with faster SSD and 512GB storage.
• It keeps the base 16GB of unified memory.

Apple just announced its new MacBook Air with the M5 processor, refreshing its thin and light laptop lineup with the latest in Apple's silicon chip technology.

More expensive

Notably, the MacBook Air M5 is $100 more expensive than last year, starting at $1,099, but it comes with double the starting local storage at 512GB and twice as fast read and write speeds as the previous generation. 

Also, for the first time, the MacBook Air will support up to 4TB of local storage.

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The new M5 processor features a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU ...