I used the M5 MacBook Air, and it’s the quintessential MacBook for most people

The MacBook Air has, at this point, become something of a rhetorical problem for me. With every incremental upgrade to this laptop, Apple leaves nearly nothing left to talk about in a meaningful way aside from the new silicon. The formula Apple locked in with the M2 generation has proven so durable that each successive update doesn’t really feel justified, and the new M5 MacBook Air does not break from that tradition, but it is, without question, still the best laptop in its category.