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Atom5225

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Oct 22, 2025
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I’m upgrading from my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro. I’m a software engineer and mostly do personal work related to image processing and computer vision on mac.

In my country, 24GB RAM is the max option, and both of these cost exactly the same:
  • M5 (24GB / 1TB)
  • M4 Pro (12-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB / 512GB)
Storage doesn’t seem like a big deal for me, but I’m not completely sure.
The M5’s new neural-accelerator additions on the GPU side make me a bit confused — I’m not sure how much they actually matter for my kind of work.

Which one would you go with?
 
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