Laptop
MacBook Air 13" (M5, 24 GB) — Local LLM Performance
MacBook Air 13" (M5, 24 GB) is a Laptop running macOS, with 24 GB unified memory.
Specifications
- Memory for models
- 24 GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 153 GB/s
- Memory upgradeable
- No — soldered, decided at purchase
- Chip
- Apple M5
- Architecture
- ARM, 3nm TSMC
- Form factor
- Laptop
- Operating system
- macOS
- Released
- 2026
- Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M
- 9.7–20 tok/s
Worth knowing before you buy
- Unified memory is soldered and cannot be upgraded after purchase.
- Fanless: sustained generation throttles sooner than in a MacBook Pro.