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Here's Everything Apple Announced Today

When Apple chooses to announce new products via press release instead of an event, it's usually the sign of an incremental update rather than a groundbreaking announcement, and today's news confirms this.
I can understand that the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro are geared towards a certain niche of professional customers and technology enthusiasts, but I feel there were many good ideas that could have been implemented for those devices and just weren't. As if Apple thought: "Our machines are already the best, so why bother? They'll sell anyway".
 
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I hope apple has an AI GPU accelerator in the pipe line because right now without an Nvidia chip we cannot do the AI tasks locally that are increasingly part of applications.
 
Jeeve Stubbs said:
When Apple chooses to announce new products via press release instead of an event, it's usually the sign of an incremental update rather than a groundbreaking announcement, and today's news confirms this.
I can understand that the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro are geared towards a certain niche of professional customers and technology enthusiasts, but I feel there were many good ideas Apple could have implemented for those devices and just didn't. As if they thought: "Our machines are already the best, so why bother? They'll sell anyway".
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Supposedly they ARE planning some bigger changes, but in 2026. We'll have to see if those are innovative enough for you or anyone else, but personally I'm fine if they don't do the bigger updates annually. I think these latest changes were mostly just swapping the M5 for the M4 so they can focus chip manufacturing mainly on the M5. I'm fine with that.
 
I guess I don’t see the point of having a Vision Pro. I could fit a man cave with nice furniture, a nice TV/projector, surround sound system, and a mini fridge and be happier with the $3,500 I spent my money on.
 
Thinking I might upgrade my Macbook pro M4, 16gb, 1Tb, nano texure display (bought in Jan 25) to the M5 24gb, 1tb nano display now instead of later.

I salary package my laptops (pre tax) in Australia and I don't think I can wait until May for the M5 pros.....

Would there be a massive improvement on the M5 over the M4? The most intensive stuff on my computer that I do is Adobe Lightroom Classic - importing, viewing, occasional editing of photos.
 
I'm disappointed that they reduced maximum internal storage on the MacBook Pro from 8TB down to 4TB.

I wonder if there is really any useful performance advantage to making internal storage drives non-customer replaceable?
 
kjvmartin said:
Alright, help me out. This is the new base model? How are we getting slower memory bandwidth than the base model 14" from four years ago.
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The M1 had a memory bandwidth of only 68 GB/s. So the M5 is a fair bit faster. You posted about the M1 PRO which was much faster. So if the M5 is so much faster than the M1 then it seems likely that the M5 PRO will be so much faster than the M1 PRO you mentioned.
EDIT: By the way, maybe one point of confusion is you saying that "My original 14" M1 Pro base has 200GB/s memory bandwidth". Since the M1 Pro is not the base M1 but rather the more premium version.
 
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1037 said:
I'm so tired of waiting on Apple.
I'm buying the LG 32" 6k monitor.
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Oh, 100% agree that for monitors there are now so many great options that it seems silly (to me anyway) to bother waiting then paying the premium for an Apple one. Sure they make some good monitors but there are so many other options.
 
Press releases rather than an actual broadcast event—no real surprises. And all the rumours are unfolding as expected with base M5 MacBook Pro launching before the higher tier models early 2026 and M5 iPad also launching now. And these are spec updates which, again, is what was expected.
 
Patchwork said:
It’s a bit of an odd announcement where the MacBook Pros are concerned withe the base 14” getting the M5 but the higher end 14” and 16” still having M4 pro or max chips. I’m guessing the M5 pro and max aren’t ready yet.
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purplefox said:
Macbook with M5, M4 Pro and M4 Max. And the Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra. Really weird.
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The non-Pro chips are probably always going to be made before the Pro chips since the non-Pro chips are smaller and have better production yields.

If you need a Pro chip, the M4 Pro is still better than the non-Pro M5 for most tasks that a Pro chip would perform better at than a non-Pro chip.

Jeeve Stubbs said:
When Apple chooses to announce new products via press release instead of an event, it's usually the sign of an incremental update rather than a groundbreaking announcement, and today's news confirms this.
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I was thinking the same thing. Most of Apple’s performance improvements are probably the result of TSMC’s work, and TSMC’s N3P doesn’t offer much improved performance over N3E. The M6 on TSMC’s N2 process should provide a much larger performance improvement. An advantage of the M5 on N3P, though, is that this most-refined version of the N3 node should give great power efficiency when the computer is idle, since newer nodes tend to have more leakage.
 
Pro day? I need a casual day.

Appletv, HomePod, and bringing the router and printer back. And an $800 monitor.
 
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