M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

[Elohim369]

Article: "Alternatively, Apple could debut the M5 MacBook Pro in early 2026 and the OLED version in late 2026, but that would be unusual."

They did M2 Pro/Max MBPs in early 2023 and M3 Pro/Max MBPs in late 2023. So it's not like there's no recent precedent.

OLED seems like a really minor upgrade - many other companies are shipping OLED screens on laptops so surely Apple can figure it out, too.

Hence my prediction they'll ship OLED and M5 simultaneously. OLED could be done with a bit of a thinner lid without doing a full redesign. Why wait?

The mini LED screen is insanely thick, the thickest ever on a laptop - only feature I don't like about the M1 16". Hurts my eyes too, I need blue blocker glasses to look at it.

But that being said, quality is really top. Nothing broke. It just relentlessly works day in, day out, getting carried everywhere every day. I think the number of days I've left my house without laptop over the last 5 years is in the single % digits. I almost always have my mobile office on me. It's never missed a beat. Just on its own it's a very impressive feat. It's rivaling the Honda Cub for tech product reliability.

Apple bungled AI and keeps making the iPhones fuglier and fuglier but, lets not forget the quality of the hardware.

I still think they had an axe to grind and a point to prove after their too-thin butterfly keyboard disaster. The most unreliable mac laptops in history, I knew so many people who had them break just after the warranty expired. I skipped that generation completely.

 

[throAU]

it is kinda overkill. the m4 is an amazing chip and I can't see any reason to rush the next.. what sucks about apple is the consistency though. I had to buy my parents an m1 iMac wayyyyy late in the game cus they never launched an m2 and yet the m3 and m4 came out in rapid succession

Maybe they want to do more than an incremental step.

For what it is, the M4 series is still higher performance than anything available in PC land in the same thermal envelope except for MAYBE strix point.

However, AI and ray tracing are the new big ticket items, perhaps selling the M4 a little longer until M5 can make substantial gains there will be possible.

 

[PotentPeas]

Hence my prediction they'll ship OLED and M5 simultaneously. OLED could be done with a bit of a thinner lid without doing a full redesign. Why wait?

I see where you're coming from, and they probably "could" put an OLED in the next iteration, but such strong reporting from the rumor mill tends to be pretty solid, and it has remained consistent for some time now ... minor refresh for M5 — basically just swapping out the chip like they have been doing, and maybe a tiny surprise to go with it like they did when they added space black option [M3] or the nanotexture panel option [M4]. I am personally suspecting that they might add an (absurdly expensive) 16TB SSD option, since they just added that to the Mac Studio in its last refresh.

OLED tied to the next chassis refresh, which will be with the system _after_ M5. Oh, and ditching the notch for a hole-punch camera at the same time that they move to OLED.

 

[Timbukstu]

there is 5% performance improvement for everyday use, lagging demand, a possible recession, and a 15% penalty tariff on a $2000 mbp.

So the $2000 mbp will cost 2500$ or $3199 for the oled screen. Do we have enough buyers?

 

[GlassFingers]

OLED seems like a really minor upgrade - many other companies are shipping OLED screens on laptops so surely Apple can figure it out, too.

Hence my prediction they'll ship OLED and M5 simultaneously. OLED could be done with a bit of a thinner lid without doing a full redesign. Why wait?

The mini LED screen is insanely thick, the thickest ever on a laptop - only feature I don't like about the M1 16". Hurts my eyes too, I need blue blocker glasses to look at it.

But that being said, quality is really top. Nothing broke. It just relentlessly works day in, day out, getting carried everywhere every day. I think the number of days I've left my house without laptop over the last 5 years is in the single % digits. I almost always have my mobile office on me. It's never missed a beat. Just on its own it's a very impressive feat. It's rivaling the Honda Cub for tech product reliability.

Apple bungled AI and keeps making the iPhones fuglier and fuglier but, lets not forget the quality of the hardware.

I still think they had an axe to grind and a point to prove after their too-thin butterfly keyboard disaster. The most unreliable mac laptops in history, I knew so many people who had them break just after the warranty expired. I skipped that generation completely.

That butterfly keyboard was a nightmare… So glad they have replaced it. My 2021 MacBook Pro 16” is still working perfectly fine.

 

[ChamomileTea]

That butterfly keyboard was a nightmare… So glad they have replaced it. My 2021 MacBook Pro 16” is still working perfectly fine.

When it was new, it felt great typing on it. Tactically and audibly superior to any scissor-type keyboard.

Pissed that Apple simply buried it, they should have fixed its problems.

But the bad press was already there.

 

[MobiusStrip]

When it was new, it felt great typing on it. Tactically and audibly superior to any scissor-type keyboard.

Utter bullshìt. Almost no travel, and shìtty performance even when brand-new. Putting rubbers on it instead of replacing it was just another insult to customers, making them pay the price for Apple's coddling of spoiled, pompous hack Jony Ive. Good riddance to that POS keyboard and his embarrassing emoji bar.

 

[The Game 161]

so maybe apple are just waiting to release OLED in 2026. hopefully true