(Image credit: Future / Ian Evenden) It’s hard not to love the MacBook Air . It’s been Apple ’s best consumer MacBook for a while now, certainly since it started using M-chips, offering a good chunk of what makes the MacBook Pro great at a much lower price. It’s been recently updated to use the latest M processor, the M5, and can be found with a decent amount of RAM and storage too, though the entry-level model isn’t to be ignored. The MacBook Air M5 makes the ideal choice for students going back to school or college, can turn its hand to many creative applications, and can play games too thanks to the M5 chip’s enhanced GPU cores. It’s even better value thanks to this deal running on Amazon right now, which knocks up to 12% off the price. Up in the Air I’ve used a variety of Airs over the years, starting with an 11in Core i7 model that had the very first version of Thunderbolt on board, and they’ve been universally excellent.…