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Some consider the M4 MacBook Air to be the best MacBook Air ever. Now, the bar has been raised -- an M5 MacBook Air to be released / announced soon, and MSRP to remain unchanged; at Amazon it will sell at a discount. Whoo-hoo.
I just bought the M4 MacBook Air for my wife last autumn. I have a much older MacBook Air and would love the M5 but the M4 does everything I need it to do.
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System-on-a-Chip (SOC)
Consumer Retail
Edge
On Device
M6:
- update for new phones;
- TSMC 2nm process; significant advances;
- SoC: highly sophisticated, close stacking of CPU-GPU-memory components.
- memory: Samsung, SK Hynix, and/or Micron
M5:
- apparently Vision Pro now has the M5 chip -- September, 2025
- rumored to be available 4Q25 for iPad Pro (iPad Pro M5) -- October, 2025
- Amazon's overall pick, January, 2026
- 11-inch iPad Pro M5 list price: $999; available at Amazon for $899
- for the MacBook Pro M5 delivery has been delayed from October, 2025, to early 1H26 (October, 2025)
- January, 2026, 14.2-inch: list price, $1,999; available at Amazon for $1,749
- MacBook Air M5, not yet released, January, 2026; likely to be released 2Q26;
M4:
- blog focus update -- June 17, 2024
- wiki has added the M4 family of chips to their "transistor count" page;
- M1: revolutionary
- M2, M3: evolutionary
- M4: revolutionary, iPads, July, 2024, with the new M4
- iPhone 16 / IOS 18 late 2024
- desktop / laptop: will get M4 later
M3:
- wiki has added the M3 family of chips to their "transistor count" page;
- comparing M3 with M2;
- financial disruptor;
