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Amazon Takes $118 Off M5 MacBook Pro With New Lowest-Ever Price

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Amazon today has dropped the price of the new M5 MacBook Pro to $1,480.00, down from $1,599.00. This is the 10-Core model with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD in Space Black, and it's a new all-time low price on the M5 MacBook Pro.

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This version of the MacBook Pro just launched last month and it comes with the newest M5 chip, which offers up to 15% faster CPU performance and up to 45% faster graphics when compared to the M4 chip. For the 512GB model, Amazon provides a November 18 estimated arrival date for free shipping without Prime.



If you're shopping for any other models of the M5 MacBook Pro, you'll want to take a look at our exclusive offers at Expercom. In regards to both 1TB models, as well as a few custom higher-end models, you'll find the best prices here, and our discount has been applied automatically to every computer. Some examples of deals are listed below.


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Really tempting to upgrade the M1Pro (16GB / 1TB) for an M5 MBP. It's just - the M1Pro is still so good that it still handles everything I routinely throw at it like butter. According to Google and benchmarks, the M5 destroys the M1Pro for certain things like AI and video renders. However, what that translates to in the real-world for me is a couple of minutes here and there for 4K renders.
 
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ImAlwaysRight said:
Time is money. But money is also money. A few seconds or minutes here and there isn't worth all that money.
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It depends on the application.

If you need to render photo quality output, you can produce it twice as fast or twice as detailed, but for the actual creation, it may not save any time.

Live output could also be more detailed with more power, but I don’t think going to the non-Pro M5 from a Pro M1 is a good move. I am waiting to see what the M5 Pro and Max do compared to the M1 Pro.
 
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masterhiggins said:
Who gets a laptop with less than 1TB of storage these days?
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People who:
1. Do a lot of cloud based stuff
2. Do a lot of stuff that requires such large files that 1TB isn’t enough so they use external storage.

In both cases, 512GB is more than enough to install all apps, keep photos and music libraries, and keep your current projects on the internal storage (but not the support and output files for the projects)
 
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ikramerica said:
People who:
1. Do a lot of cloud based stuff
2. Do a lot of stuff that requires such large files that 1TB isn’t enough so they use external storage.

In both cases, 512GB is more than enough to install all apps, keep photos and music libraries, and keep your current projects on the internal storage (but not the support and output files for the projects)
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Macbook Pro should be called Macbook Rich. A Macbook Air can do professional office stuff (e.g., lawyers). On the other hand, developers and content creators need more than 512MB (even more than 1TB). A base "Pro" model should come with 1TB. Unacceptable that the entry level iPhone Pro has just 256GB.
 
masterhiggins said:
Who gets a laptop with less than 1TB of storage these days?
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I have a work MacBook with 512GB and that's just fine because we use MS Office with OneDrive and very little needs to be stored locally. My wife barely has about a 100GB used on her 256GB M1 Air because all her stuff is in the cloud. Paying for more would just be a waste.

As for me... Well I'm a data hog. My personal laptops are 1TB M1Pro (business use) and 2TB M4 Air (personal use, Podcast studio, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro etc). The 1TB lives at over 800GB of local data which is why I specced 2TB for the Air.

brdeveloper said:
Macbook Pro should be called Macbook Rich. A Macbook Air can do professional office stuff (e.g., lawyers). On the other hand, developers and content creators need more than 512MB (even more than 1TB). A base "Pro" model should come with 1TB. Unacceptable that the entry level iPhone Pro has just 256GB.
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MacBook Rich. Truth in advertising? Maybe, but I'm not sure the marketing guys would sign off on that.🤣

As for "Pro" well let's all agree that it doesn't mean anything other than 'Costs More'.
 
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ImAlwaysRight said:
A few seconds or minutes here and there isn't worth all that money.
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Steve Jobs famously put it in terms of lives saved, rather than money.

For my part, I used to lead a daily call that cost around a hundred dollars per minute. Not gonna get into details, but a few minutes can add up very quickly.

To give some more realistic scenarios for folks eyeing an upgrade from the M1 generation:
- If a developer rebuilds their app 40 times/day, and it takes 30 seconds on their old machine instead of the 15 seconds it could take after an upgrade, that's 10 minutes/day or roughly 40 hours/year. At my company's bill rates, that's more than enough for a new laptop in less than a year.
- It's a truism that if a build takes more than a few seconds, devs get distracted. So even if it only takes an extra 15 seconds on paper, in practice it's an extra minute (or more, if we're being honest) because they're reading Reddit or—even worse—chatting up someone. Now that 15 seconds loss has become a 1 minute loss, so we're talking roughly 4 weeks per year, which should justify a new laptop (or 10, depending on your hourly rate and the machine's spec).

And build times are just one of many examples. How many others are there for you? Could web pages have loaded 1s faster? How many of those do you load each day? Do you have to reboot every morning because of company policy? How's that for you? You'd be shocked how a small savings, repeated often, adds up and how getting rid of them can make a huge difference. xkcd covered this, in fact (because of course they did).
 
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