Apple Teases Upcoming M5 MacBook Pro Launch: 'Something Powerful is Coming'

[jk111]

That's a MacBook Air. The sky blue is a giveaway, unless they bring it to the pros, but the fact there are no speaker grills is what sold it. The keyboard area is black though.

I think there are speaker grills shown in the image, although very hard to see.

 

[satchmo]

Will we finally see a (C1) modem in Apple MacBooks?

 

[l0stl0rd]

something powerful yes maybe if it has fp8 support for Ai workloads then the speedup wil be 2-3 x

 

[jonnyb098]

Omg it’s a MacBook Pro with a faster chip. Nice but Not ground breaking. And not really worthy of a “tease”

 

[CalMin]

My M1 is running beautifully nearly 5 years on. The main reason I'd change at this point is if the battery degrades.

Why not just change out the battery? I think that's what I'll do with my M1Pro since it still crushes my daily workload but the battery health has dropped to 82%.

 

[newyorksole]

let’s gooo. I’m not in the market for it but always good to see updates.

 

[MRSugarD]

Maybe this round the 16 will also receive the basic M5 treatment to spice things up a little bit?

 

[AppliedVisual]

People still complain about this? It’s irrelevant.

Apple extended the screen at the top so the menu/status icons/notch are in the extended portion and the screen below is the same size as previous MacBooks. So you actually gain a small amount of screen real estate.

Yeah, I don't get this complaint. It's not the notch taking away screen space, it's the screen being used to fill the space on each side of the notch. I guess they would rather have any of the other PC notebooks that just have the larger bezel at the top of the display, or the large camera bump protruding upward above the display?

 

[awsom82]

With notch, no buy 😑

It’s fine

 

[klasma]

A new Power Mac?

 

[t0rqx]

They changed the speaker button, its hard to see on the image, but visible if you zoom in.

 

[TimeSquareDesi]

Someone please tell the marketing team their next macbook pro catch phrase should be "Notch your average MacBook!"

 

[Quicksilver867]

Why not just change out the battery? I think that's what I'll do with my M1Pro since it still crushes my daily workload but the battery health has dropped to 82%.

If that's possible to do, then it will be even longer before I replace the system! Good to know.

 

[lazyrighteye]

The “V” stands for 5

It's also the valley of the letter M. For M5?

 

[CalMin]

If that's possible to do, then it will be even longer before I replace the system! Good to know.

Yeah - I think it's $150-200 or so at Apple.

 

[iZac]

Oh the new Apple Silicon MV Chip!

 

[lazyrighteye]

Keyboard symbols have been shifted slightly (fn lower, ctrl, option, command left justified)
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Good eye. I wonder if the same keys to the right of the spacebar are right-justified.
And for a second, I thought this blue(r) render might be thinner than previous models. But I don't think that the case.

 

[Newbee2025]

would be shocked if it’s not identical in design language as the current and past mbp

 

[ProbablyDylan]

If people talk about M5's, I'm thinking of this:

No more Pro and Max, we're doing Touring and Competition

 

[KENESS]

LET'S GO!!! Hard to picture them saying "something powerful" if only a base model is coming.

Don't get too carried away reading into it. It is a whole new processor family, and even if it isn't a dramatic upgrade, the base model still isn't going to be... limp. There'd be nothing wrong with calling it "powerful."

 

[Levithescienceguy]

Don't get too carried away reading into it. It is a whole new processor family, and even if it isn't a dramatic upgrade, the base model still isn't going to be... limp. There'd be nothing wrong with calling it "powerful."

We can at least rule out that this is the budget A18 chip laptop, hopefully.

 

[smulji]

You can’t even take lengthy notes during class because after a while there is a delay between the pencil and the iPad in the notes app. PDFs are crashing if you write with the pencil or it doesn’t save your notes on a PDF etc. I thought the iPad was the Pencil device but the OS can’t handle it.

Next time, invest in a Surface Pro

 

[Cameront9]

Getting my Star Trek M5 computer memes ready.

 

[bigandtasty]

Sweet!

M5 12% faster multi-core CPU performance, up to 36% faster GPU performance, everything else, THE SAME!

 

[omf]

People still complain about this? It’s irrelevant.

Apple extended the screen at the top so the menu/status icons/notch are in the extended portion and the screen below is the same size as previous MacBooks. So you actually gain a small amount of screen real estate.

It's psychological. I tell people that if they don't like the notch they can just put a piece of electrical tape across the top 1/30th of the screen.