Apple's M5 MacBook Pro Imminent: What to Expect

[chucker23n1]

Good point, but in that case you’d be better off going for an Apple refurbed M4.

Also a good choice, sure.

I guess my point is: the M4 MBP is a really good laptop, and the M5 MBP will be a really good laptop as well, just even slightly faster.

Like, if someone asks, "I don't need to run natively, nor to play games; what I need a workhorse that gets stuff done efficiently", the M5 MBP is a no-brainer to recommend. There's not a whole lot of "yes, but keep in mind…" to it.

(The M6 MBP will probably be good, too, but if we assume it has a redesign, then that comes with the slight risk of issues.)

 

[PBG4 Dude]

M5 available for preorder now at Apple.

 

[GlassFingers]

Do not forget that the M6 chip will be much better for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will probably bring PCIe 5.0 (now all Macs have up to PCIe 4.0) with twice as fast SSD inside for both sequential as MB/s and much more importantly random as Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) read/write similar to this Samsung 9100 Pro:

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On the other hand, touch screens are also useful for Macs. Windows has had it for years now. At least Apple should build it into macOS much as is in iOS and iPadOS, at least for third-party displays-monitors that now require third-party kernel extensions with all their problems on Mac. Choices are good.

In this case, the jump is huge. So, yes I will wait for it. This is not a mere update; it is a huge upgrade.

Looks like those huge improvement in internal SSD read write speeds… has arrived today!! With the new MacBook Pro M5. Awesome! 🤩

 

[Diode]

Shame the baseline M5 didn't update to TB5.

Picked up a open box excellent M4 Pro 14/20 w/ 24GB ram and 1tb SSD for $1525 from best buy over the weekend. Seems like I made the right choice.

 

[Alameda]

Good article 👍

There might be some design changes on the keys too (Don’t forget the MacBook Air m4 mute button change)

But yeah you shouldn’t buy it because big update coming and there is almost nothing new here… Last year MacBook Pro was a good choice but this one no.

It depends which Mac you’re upgrading from. Replacing annually (almost?) never makes sense. But if you’ve got an Intel Mac or an M1, maybe the M5 will be a big upgrade.

What I’ve read several times is that there’s some sort of bug or issue with the design of the AI cores which have bee limiting developers such as Adobe and others. If that’s so, and the M5 resolves it, that will be the Big Deal with this update.

 

[Astuces iOS]

It depends which Mac you’re upgrading from. Replacing annually (almost?) never makes sense. But if you’ve got an Intel Mac or an M1, maybe the M5 will be a big upgrade.

What I’ve read several times is that there’s some sort of bug or issue with the design of the AI cores which have bee limiting developers such as Adobe and others. If that’s so, and the M5 resolves it, that will be the Big Deal with this update.

Maybe maybe... 😆

 

[Vanarak19]

No WiFi 7 no dice here. Assuming they are keeping that for their next big thing but it’s silly. Other than that looks like a s plus incremental update.

 

[Marx55]

Looks like those huge improvement in internal SSD read write speeds… has arrived today!! With the new MacBook Pro M5. Awesome! 🤩

Not really. Current Macs (all of them; even the Mac Pro) have half such internal SSD speeds. The M6 chip will hopefully allow that, which means PCIe 5-like speeds. Current Macs have PCIe 4-like speeds.

 

[GlassFingers]

Not really. Current Macs (all of them; even the Mac Pro) have half such internal SSD speeds. The M6 chip will hopefully allow that, which means PCIe 5-like speeds. Current Macs have PCIe 4-like speeds.

Ah ok. Thanks for the info! Now to finally upgrade to M5 Max...... or wait ANOTHER year for M6 and possibility of PCIe 5 like speeds..... wonder if that's going to make a huge difference for video editing? 🤔