New M5 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Are Already on Sale at Amazon a Day After Release

Apple’s caller 2026 M5-powered MacBook Air and M5 Pro/Max-powered MacBook Pro whitethorn person conscionable released yesterday, but Amazon is already doing thing Apple astir ne'er does: offering a discount. You tin prevention $49 connected each disposable models of some caller laptops (see astatine Amazon). For anyone successful the marketplace for a caller computer, that’s a bully small inducement to prime up Apple’s latest and top machines. And if you tin get by with past year’s modular M5-powered Pro, you tin prevention $200. It’s unclear however agelong the discount volition last, truthful I’d bid 1 sooner than aboriginal if you’re successful the market.

Save $49 connected Brand New 2026 MacBooks

Whether you’re funny successful the precise susceptible M5 MacBook Air oregon the highly susceptible M5 Pro oregon Max MacBook Pro, you person a fig of options to spec retired the machines astatine a discount.

The M5 MacBook Air comes successful 2 sizes: 13.6” and 15.3” and starts astatine $1099. It’s disposable successful 4 colour options: silver, entity blue, starlight (champaign gold), and midnight (deep blue/black). Silver is the standard, straightforward colour that’s been disposable connected MacBooks for the longest time. The vibrancy of the starlight and entity bluish is subtle, portion midnight is simply a deep, affluent color. They each look great, and I honestly don’t deliberation you tin spell wrong.

Whatever colour you get, you tin take from 3 progressively souped-up configurations that spell up successful terms accordingly. In either size, the baseline Air comes with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. That’s doubly the hard thrust abstraction of past year’s model. For an other $200, you tin treble the storage, and for different $200 connected apical of that, you tin crank it up to 24GB of unified memory.

As for the M5 MacBook Pro, it’s a bigger, much almighty instrumentality than the Air. Size-wise, it comes successful 14.2” and 16.2” options, though it’s much constricted successful its colour offerings, with conscionable metallic and abstraction achromatic to take from.

But erstwhile it comes to power, the caller MacBook Pro models diagnostic the souped-up M5 Pro oregon the M5 Max chip, some of which springiness you a computing boost beyond the modular M5. Depending connected the spot you want, you’ll get betwixt 16GB and 36GB of unified representation and betwixt 512GB and 2TB of SSD space. These are the astir almighty laptops Apple makes, and they’re terms accordingly.

As mentioned above, if you tin skate by the 2025 MacBook Pro with a regular M5 chip, you tin prevention $200 astatine Amazon, dropping the terms down to a tenable $1499.99. That’s the lowest terms Amazon has ever offered for this instrumentality by $100. That’s a terrific deal.

For those who don't request a ton of powerfulness for their computing needs, Apple has conscionable introduced the low-priced MacBook Neo. It's not connected sale, but it starts astatine $599 ($499 for students), truthful I don't expect to spot a discount anytime soon.

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