Apple MacBook Air 15 M5 Review - Very powerful, fanless and without competition

[juri]

12W average in idle?? how can that be, lunar lake is only a third of this.
why are you not doing the battery test with idle and video playback any more??

and still no matte option for the screen, so idiotic without any reason.
until then i wont consider an air.

[How tastes differ]

and still no matte option for the screen, so idiotic without any reason.

It's not 12W, look again. Maybe the matte coating on your screen played a prank on you ;)
And I'm so glad that it's glossy (richer colors, sharper text). Mind that while it's glossy, the anti-reflective coating/ability is very good.

[Interesting for reviewers]

This may be interesting for reviewers:

Apple's Energy Model - Deconstructed

In this video, I reverse engineer Apple's Energy Model on the Mac Studio M4 Max. In the process I explain why and how measured DC power can appear up to 3 times higher than reported M4 Max GPU power.

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[only bandwidth = more tg]

As expected, a vid by Alex Ziskind (youtube.com/watch?v=XGe7ldwFLSE), in this case, proves that Apples's claim of

Peak GPU AI compute: over 4× faster

does not apply to running 3rd party LLMs and only the RAM/unified memory bandwidth increase increases the token generation (28% = 1.28 = 153.6 GB/s (M5) / 120 GB/s (M4)). (153.6 GB/s = 128-bit * 9600 MT/s / 1000 / 8)

[only bandwidth = more tg]

Or look up the 153.6 GB/s and 120 GB/s values here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#M-series_SoCs.