News Summary

• When friends or family ask what laptop to buy, I always start with the MacBook Air.
• With the update to the M5, its GPU is now as powerful as the M3 Pro MacBook Pro.
• Microsoft's Surface Laptop 13.8 (also known as the 7th Edition) is almost as good as the Air in many ways.
• The Asus Zenbook S 16.5 is an absolutely stacked laptop with more memory and twice the storage as the Macbook Air.
• But not everyone has $1,000 or more to spend on a laptop.