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M5 MacBook Air Coming Spring 2026 With M5 Mac Studio and Mac Mini in Development

Black_Mage said:
I'll just leave this here.

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Apple already has iPad Pro and Magic keyboard, which effectively is like a touch screen laptop with a touch pad… the difference is iPadOS (and apps) was made for touch; MacOS wasn’t made for this.

So they might have to continue to make more changes to MacOS to blend it be more touch oriented like iPadOS… OR blend in some of the Vision OS concepts and spatial sensor technology & gestures to eliminate the need to raise your arm and touch the screen as often.
 
CalMin said:
Yep. My 15" M4 Air (32GB / 2TB) just arrived last week. I got a refurb though.

Ironically - the reason I specced it up so much is for an AI project I'm involved in. The irony is that M5 will be a much better chip for this for on-device AI... Oh well - I can't wait until Spring and I don't want the 14" M5 Pro.
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Curious choice for someone doing AI. I would think that you're pushing the hardware pretty hard and the Air tends to throttle really quickly when given an intensive task due to the lack of active cooling. My son's Air gets burning hot just playing Minecraft. If time is money a Mac with a cooling fan like the new 14" M5 Pro seems like a no brainer to me.

I would also choose the Pro for its superior display. In addition to better picture quality it has a higher screen resolution than your 15" Air meaning that more information can be displayed at once. I've tried getting stuff done on a 13" Air and it was a really frustrating experience. I'll gladly take an extra few grams of weight to get more elbow room on the screen.
 
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trusso said:
Every time I see an article with one of Apple's MacBook press photos, I'm reminded how embarrassed even they are by the notch, as almost all their promo photos show the MacBook Air/Pro with a dark full-screen that obscures the notch. Call me suspicious, but this has to be intentional.

Apple, why are you selling products you're embarrassed to fully disclose? Why should we be forking money over for this smoke-and-mirrors game?
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That's exactly right! And even on the iPhone marketing, the notch is always hidden by a dark background for the pros while it stays very visible for the non-pros, so as to increase the appeal of the pro to the eye.
It's the same every year.
 
An M5 Mac Mini will be such a beast. The M5 is insane and the biggest leap since the M1. I really wish I could have held out for it but I had to bite the bullet and pick up an M4 Mac Mini.
 
MacBook Pros in January, Air in March, mini, Studio and iMac in April or at WWDC. Would be nice to know about the iMac colors - whether they will be the same or Apple will release some new ones.
 
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If the MBP gains a touchscreen I actually hope Apple still sell a non-touch screen model. Personally I don’t need/want that on my Mac.
 
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Macbook Air should be release even today since it has also the M5 without a fan
We already know the current design, probably the price will stay the same..
 
zedsdead said:
I am going to strongly consider the M5 Max Mac Studio with new display if the display delivers. I am getting RAM/storage constrained on my M2 Max, which is not otherwise showing its age at all...so I may just take the jump now.

As for the MacBook Pros, waiting for redesign.
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I was going to ask how are you maxing it out, but then saw you have 32gb of ram? I have the M2 Ultra with 192gb ram and I've not managed to break it. I throw a lot of 3D and video at it, and never really phases it. Not entirely sure what about a Mac Studio is in the works, they just need to change swap the processor which is all they seem to do in the other devices. Unless it's a refresh.
 
M3Stang said:
For real. I have been considering purchasing one but it's the only Mac in the modern line up that doesn't have hardware accelerated raytracing and it's the most expensive at its base configuration. And the ram is so small for LLMs. My M4 Max is probably better overall.
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As a Mac Pro customer for many years, the latest iteration before apple silicon pushed me to the studio. There was Zero benefit of having the tower to the studio. The lack of support for any decent graphics cards was the final bullet for me.
 
JohnC1959 said:
I think it exists mostly for a small class of users that need to insert their own hardware cards inside.
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And who haven‘t switched to Windows or Linux yet.

While the M2 Ultra is certainly powerful, it’s nowhere near a Threadripper / Nvidia combination (for those who actually have the need and budget for such power)
 
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RedWeasel said:
And who haven‘t switched to Windows or Linux yet.

While the M2 Ultra is certainly powerful, it’s nowhere near a Threadripper / Nvidia combination (for those who actually have the need and budget for such power)
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There are also those locked into Apple software, Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro etc.

Although the music producers I think are waining slightly as many are willing to pick up Ableton now and move around more. Ironically Logic Pro has been one of the best value purchases for anyone in the business, pro of amateur. I think it was a one off purchase 15 years ago and every update has been free - the value is lost slightly if they then need to buy a Mac Pro though!
 
dannys1 said:
There are also those locked into Apple software, Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro etc.
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The thing is that the Mac Studio, even with „only“ the M4 Max will be more than powerful enough for most music producers and content creators using these applications.

And if you have a Pro Tools HDX card, a Thunderbolt case together with a Mac Studio would still be less expensive than a Mac Pro.

So I think this really only leaves a very small niche where the Mac Pro makes sense. Which is why I wouldn‘t be surprised if it gets canceled at some point.
 
Very few comments here about that (supposed) touch screen in the MBP. What are we expecting from this?

Will it be able to do a full hinge and switch to iPadOS when in tablet mode? Federighi said that macOS and iPadOS are 2 different animals but there is no denying that iPadOS 26 with menu/mouse/windowed apps support is starting to look a lot like some sort of macOS mini.

Of will that predicted cheap(ish) MacBook with A-processor become a first hybrid of macOS/iPadOS?
 
MacBH928 said:
maybe I am missing something but,
how is the Mac Pro , the most expensive and largest mac, comes with the oldest least capable CPU and who is buying it?!
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Well it’s a M2 Ultra, so it’s not the least capable CPU.

But yeah, as to who‘s buying it, I guess not many.
 
leehericks said:
The Mac Pro shouldn’t exist. 😏
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Yeah 100% agree. The M3 Ultra kills it dead.

The only reason it exists is it has physical PCI slots and you get what 2x x16 slots in there which are 64GBps bandwidth per slot and some limp x8 ones. Newer macs have TB5 which is 80GBps bandwidth per port (minimum!) and the M3 Ultra at least has 6 of those (!) and same system bandwidth as the Mac Pro.

Think it's just a legacy crate supporting legacy hardware which will get replaced by TB5 stuff at some point.
 
Yep, not buying a laptop with a touchscreen. Just like I wouldn’t buy a laptop with a touch bar or butterfly keyboard….

Looks like I’ll be going another 5 to 8 years between MacBooks again….
 
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