Apple’s new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips arrive this Wednesday, and reviews for the latest models have just arrived. Here’s what reviewers are saying.
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Apple last week changed the way you buy a Mac online, removing the previous lineup of customizable pre-configured options and instead putting you straight into configuring your spec from scratch.
While at first glance this seems a somewhat strange thing to do, arguably making it a little more complicated for a non-tech buyer to choose their Mac, the change could provide support for a theory that Apple will allow you to separate CPU and GPU options when buying an M5 Pro or Max Mac …
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We’re likely less than two weeks away from the launch of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models. Performance estimates based on extrapolating from the difference between the base M4 and the more powerful variants suggests that the M5 Max MacBook Pro could deliver “astounding” Geekbench scores.
The analysis suggests that the M5 Max chip may be the first Apple GPU ever to break 250,000 on the Geekbench 6 compute test …
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The first M5-powered MacBook Pro launched in October of last year. Apple described the chip as offering “the next big leap in AI for the Mac.”
There was no update for the 16-inch MacBook Pro, however, and we are expecting this to happen soon – including M5 Pro and M5 Max options. Apple may now have hinted that the launch date for these will be January 28 …
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Most people upgrade their MacBook Pro no more frequently than once every five years, and some leave it considerably longer than that. But Apple always makes it sound like even last year’s model is now hopelessly outdated, something it did again with the launch of the M5 MacBook Pro.
There’s no doubt that the company is achieving incredibly impressive year-on-year increases in Apple Silicon performance, but real-life tests show that upgrading from one generation to the next doesn’t make sense for the vast majority of MacBook owners …
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The new M5 MacBook Pro is pretty light on changes beyond the chip, but one of its only other new features—faster SSD performance—seems to be a bigger upgrade than Apple let on.
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Reviews arrived today for Apple’s M5 iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and new Vision Pro. When comparing the new M5 iPad Pro and MacBook Pro models especially, one historic trend is clearly continuing: iPad hardware innovation keeps outpacing the Mac.
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Apple’s M5 MacBook Pro arrives in stores this week, and the first reviews have just arrived. Here are the highlights of everything you should know about the M5 MacBook pro.
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Apple launched a trio of new M5 products this week, including the M5 MacBook Pro. But what’s actually changed with the M5 model compared to last year’s M4 MacBook Pro? Not a lot. Here are four differences between the M5 and M4 MacBook Pro.
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Even five years on, I’m still blown away by the impressiveness of Apple Silicon Macs. I’m still rocking a pair of M1-powered MacBooks myself, albeit one of them the M1 Max, and I’ve never felt that either one was underpowered.
Apple yesterday told us that the latest generation M5 chip is significantly better than even the M4. But the most impressive thing about the chip isn’t found inside the MacBook Pro …
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There was quite a lot of discussion yesterday – and not a little confusion – when it was revealed that the new M5 14-inch MacBook Pro announced yesterday doesn’t include a power adapter in the box when bought in the UK or EU countries.
Many were claiming that this is because EU law prohibits the inclusion of a charger when selling new electronic products, but that is not actually the case …
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Apple has officially announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip. The company touts that this delivers the “next big leap in AI for the Mac,” with up to 3.5x faster AI performance than M4.
Here’s everything you need to know…
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The recent uncertainty around M5 MacBook Pro launch timing may be starting to clear up, as a new report indicates the base M5 MacBook Pro is launching soon, while higher-end models aren’t coming until later.
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Apple’s M5 MacBook Pro is coming soon. There’s been a lot of back and forth regarding when exactly it will launch, but here’s the latest M5 MacBook Pro update.
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Apple’s recent pattern with new MacBook Pro models has been to launch them in the fall. But recently Bloomberg indicated that may not happen this year, and now a second source has chimed in to support a later launch date.
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If you’re interested in a new MacBook Pro, the current M4 model is an excellent option. But the M5 MacBook Pro will launch in the coming year too, and decisions about whether to upgrade could be a lot more complicated than usual.
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