MacBook Air M5 리뷰: '딱 맞는' Mac을 위한 작은 업데이트

Not much has changed in the new MacBook Air for 2026: It now has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage starting at 512GB instead of 256GB. It’s just as outstanding a computer as last year’s model, even if it’s a shame it’s $100 more expensive. MacBook Air M5 review: a small update for the ‘just right’ Mac The Air can’t ignore the new $600 elephant in the room sitting below it, but it’s still the right pick for many. The bigger change has happened to the Air. The MacBook Neo now exists, and it’s an awesome little computer for $500 less than the base 13-inch Air. The Neo’s existence doesn’t invalidate the Air or make it pointless, and I doubt the Neo will cannibalize too much of the Air’s sales. The Air is a more capable, faster, and sleeker machine. Having the Neo sit beneath it does paint it in a new light, though. It’s now the step-up upgrade from the Neo that still cedes plenty of room to the beefier MacBook Pros above it. But is the Air now an awkward middle child or the perfect middle ground? I have good news on that front. The Good - A little more speed never hurts - Starts with more storage that’s twice as fast - Still one of the best laptops around - Great battery life and speakers The Bad - Starting price is $100 more than M4 generation (though you get more storage for it) - The MacBook Neo now exists and costs less than half Everything from my review of the 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Airs rings true in the new M5 model. (This time I only have the 15-inch, but the changes are the same across both sizes.) The screen is bright, colorful, and accurate enough for some color-sensitive work. The keyboard is solid. The 12-megapixel Center Stage camera is the best built-in webcam around. The battery easily lasts a full work / school day and much more. (I easily got 13 to 14 hours on a full charge while web browsing, messaging, and streaming a bit of music and video with minimal sleeping and brightness between 50 to 100 percent.) And the six-speaker setup on the 15-inch model still gets loud as hell for such a thin laptop. Component report card - Screen: B - Webcam: A - Keyboard: B - Trackpad: A - Port selection: C - Speakers: A - Number of ugly stickers to remove: 0 The biggest changes for the new MacBook Air are all about speed, taking an already well-performing laptop and making it just a bit faster. The new M5 chip with a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU is similar to the one I tested last year in the updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. As you can see below in our benchmark tests, the new 15-inch M5 Air scores just slightly lower across the board than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5, which is expected since the Pro has a fan for a thermal advantage. The M5 Air is a bit faster than last year’s M4 Air, with the biggest gains in GPU performance and some multicore tests (like 3D rendering in Cinebench). MacBook Air 15 / Apple M5 / 16GB / 1TB | MacBook Air 15 / Apple M4 / 16GB / 512GB | MacBook Air 15 / Apple M3 / 16GB / 512GB | MacBook Air 15 / Apple M2 / 16GB / 512GB | MacBook Air (2020) / Apple M1 / 16GB / 512GB | MacBook Neo / Apple A18 Pro / 8GB / 256GB | MacBook Pro 14 / Apple M5 / 16GB / 1TB | Framework Laptop 13 / AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 / 32GB / 1TB | Microsoft Surface Laptop 13-inch / Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 / 16GB / 512GB | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | CPU cores | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 8 | | GPU | M5 (10 cores) | M4 (10 cores) | M3 (10 cores) | M2 (10 cores) | M1 (8 cores) | A18 Pro (5 GPU cores) | M5 (10 cores) | Radeon 860M (8 cores) | Adreno X1-45 | | Geekbench 6 CPU Single | 4175 | 3790 | 3124 | 2606 | 2409 | 3402 | 4208 | 2899 | 2437 | | Geekbench 6 CPU Multi | 16567 | 14831 | 12056 | 10055 | 8754 | 8508 | 17948 | 13568 | 11427 | | Geekbench 6 GPU (OpenCL) | 47661 | 35914 | Not tested | 27795 | 21512 | 19798 | 49059 | 24981 | 9391 | | Geekbench 6 GPU (Metal) | 76035 | 55368 | 46266 | 45607 | 34592 | 31026 | 77595 | N/A | N/A | | Cinebench 2026 Single | 727 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 439 | 518 | 736 | Not tested | Not tested | | Cinebench 2026 Multi | 3413 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 1924 | 1466 | 4486 | Not tested | Not tested | | PugetBench for Photoshop | 11513 | 10275 | 9349 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 12354 | 8805 | 4773 | | PugetBench for Premiere Pro (2.0.0+) | 61861 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 71122 | Not tested | Not tested | | PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve (2.0.0+) | 45378 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 50882 | Not tested | Not tested | | Blender classroom test (seconds, lower is better) | 46 | 66 | 129 | Not tested | 254 | Not tested | 44 | Not tested | 486 | | Premiere 4K Export (lower is better) | 2 minutes, 53 seconds | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 6 minutes, 39 seconds | Not tested | 2 minutes, 47 seconds | Not tested | Not tested | | Sustained SSD reads (MB/s) | 7049.45 | 3465.32 | 3504.1 | Not tested | 3422.1 | 1735.91 | 704