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Why would anybody buy this over macbook air 15?

Having owned the MacBook Air 15, some may simply prefer the smaller footprint of the Pro 14” as well. Honestly the MacBook Air 13, MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Air 15 on the base chips will all likely perform similarly, all depends on the form factor and price you prefer
 
Base memory on the 14" Pro needs to be at least 24GB. 16GB base for any Pro variant is a bit ridiculous in 2025.

Base memory on the 14" Pro needs to be at least 24GB. 16GB base for any Pro variant is a bit ridiculous in 2025.
Give Tim 15-20 years and he will oblige. Base iCloud storage will still be 5GB however.
 
Does not come with a power adapter anymore in Europe. You can't even add an adapter unless you upgrade something!
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The M5 MBP includes the charger.
Not in the UK or France, but looks like the US gets to keep their free charger.

Actually, I thought that they had to in Europe. And the reason they could get away without including one with the ipad was they argued it wasn’t a computer. 🤷
 
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Pretty quiet updates for Apple's next major milestone SoC, no?
theyre probably skipping the m5 pro and max macbooks because of the rumoured m6 redesign, if they make the base m5 macbook looking old compared to the other macbooks it would get people to buy the newer one

M5 Pro and M5 Max are coming in early 2026. These SoCs are using a new multi-chiplet process that TSMC is still ironing out at the production scale Apple needs.


Still no WiFi 7 :eek: But the iPad Pro gets it
Still no Wi-Fi 7...

Kind of interested that Apple did not move to the N1 in the MacBook Pro, but maybe the Broadcom Wi-Fi chip has certain functions N1 is not yet able to replicate.
 
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