MacBook Air: Prices, Benchmarks and Buy Now or Wait

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Neutral MacBook Air 233days since update

Mid-cycle: fine to buy if you need one now. Last updated March 3, 2026, MacBook Air 13- and 15-inch (M5); the last 4 updates came every 485 days on average. Next: A MacBook Air with the M6 chip in early 2027 - any time from February to April, most likely March - with the same design as the M5 model. (9to5Mac, 2026-09-30)

	Product	Price	Geekbench 6 CPUSingle-core · points	Geekbench 6 CPUMulti-core · points	Geekbench 6 GPUMetal · points	Geekbench 7 CPUSingle-core · points	Geekbench 7 CPUMulti-core · points	Geekbench 7 GPUMetal · points	Cyberpunk 20771080p Ultra · fps	Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s	Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s	Blender Benchmarksamples/min	Geekbench AICore ML Neural Engine, Quantized · points	Buy
	MacBook Air 13 M5	$1,099 launch price	4,185	17,072	66,910	3,575	17,072	65,818	19.5	–	–	1,665	57,340	Best Buy Amazon
	MacBook Air 15 M5	$1,299 launch price	4,195	16,995	76,530	3,582	17,164	71,075	23.3	31.9	723	1,979	–	Best Buy Amazon

Each column is one publication's results, so the figures compare on the same test system: Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core: Notebookcheck; Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core: Notebookcheck; Geekbench 6 GPU Metal: Notebookcheck; Geekbench 7 CPU Single-core: Geekbench Browser; Geekbench 7 CPU Multi-core: Geekbench Browser; Geekbench 7 GPU Metal: Geekbench Browser; Cyberpunk 2077 1080p Ultra: Notebookcheck; Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0: llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub); Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0: llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub); Blender Benchmark : Blender Open Data; Geekbench AI Core ML Neural Engine, Quantized: Macworld. † from another publication's test system. Prices are Best Buy's, checked within the last day, else the launch price. Every figure's page and date is on the product's page.

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