The ability to connect to multiple high-resolution displays even means it can comfortably run a full workstation, so long as you get a USB hub or Thunderbolt dock for more ports. That’s the power of those two Thunderbolt 4 ports onboard that you’ll find on the left side of the MacBook Air. My only complaint is that they’re all on the left, meaning you can’t charge the device from the right side. Meanwhile, storage speed is on par with the M5 MacBook Pro (and around six times faster than the MacBook Neo), with an average read/write speed of 6,740 megabytes per second. That is an exponential jump in speed over all the previous MacBook Airs, and that accelerates everything from opening applications to transferring large files. It’s one of the reasons (along with the limitation of 16 GB of RAM) that people who spend eight hours or more working on a laptop every day will want the MacBook Air over the MacBook Neo. Photograph: Luke Larsen The Windows side is also offering some serious competition. …