This exists for the better screen, more battery and active cooling over the Air. If I'm being honest even the M1 Pro I'm on right now is overkill for what I do with it and the M5 matches it in multicore and GPU performance, so I'm looking forward to the M6 Macbook Pro with OLED, assuming they don't leave the non-Pro Pro with the current design and limit the new OLED design to the M6 Pro and Max.
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New 14-Inch MacBook Pro Has Two Key Upgrades Beyond the M5 Chip
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My god man ,they're required to remove the charger in EU by law. Look it up. EU banned chargers in phone and laptop boxes.
I’m assuming they moved to the same storage subsystem that the M4 Pro/M4 Max run on whether it’s PCIe 4 or 5 really isn’t that important. Instrumented tests are what I’m waiting for.
On the flip side, waiting until the full redesign and presumably M6 to move us to Wi-Fi 7 and BT 6.0 has actually pissed me off. There is an argument that could be made that the M4 should’ve gotten those upgrades, but here we are at M5 while Apple makes us wait for a full chassis upgrade and OLED (which I don’t want due to the eye strain it causes me) to move up the networking stack.
I’m 50/50 on 32GB being the top DRAM config. More choice is better, but who would equip an M5 with 48GB and not want an M5 Pro or M5 Max.
The M5 gen will target the lingering holdouts on Intel. M6 with the redesign/OLED will be to get the M1/M2 people to jump forward.
Yes, MR should have released benchmark results before having access to the physical device and before an embargo is lifted.MR: 2× faster SSD performance
Also MR: there are no SSD benchmark results yet
I love getting raw data like this to make my purchasing decisions that much easier!
You may want to look what the word "rumors" means.
No, the EU didn't ban Apple from including a charger with the M5 MacBook Pro
There was quite a lot of discussion yesterday – and not a little confusion – when it was revealed that...
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Time to add another confidently incorrect person to the growing list of people spreading this misinformation.
Maybe, YOU should look it up.
Never heard about any EU law forbidding chargers in laptops. So thats on Apple part. but as far as I know they lower the base price. more than they charge for the charger so thast OK. if oyu need one just add to your order. In poland base MBP 14 was 8499 now its 7999 and the charger is 319 or smthink like that..No, the EU didn't ban Apple from including a charger with the M5 MacBook Pro
There was quite a lot of discussion yesterday – and not a little confusion – when it was revealed that...
Time to add another confidently incorrect person to the growing list of people spreading this misinformation.
Maybe, YOU should look it up.
When would these be available in store?
Apple on Wednesday updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro base model with an M5 chip, and there are two key storage-related upgrades beyond that chip bump.
First, Apple says the new 14-inch MacBook Pro offers up to 2× faster SSD performance than the equivalent previous-generation model, so read and write speeds should get a significant boost. Apple says it is using "the latest storage technology," but it did not provide any further details, and there are no SSD benchmark results yet.
Second, Apple says the 14-inch MacBook Pro base model can now be configured with up to 4TB of storage, whereas the highest storage capacity offered for the equivalent previous-generation model was 2TB. However, the highest-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M4 Max chips can be configured with up to 8TB of storage.
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro can be pre-ordered now, and it launches Wednesday, October 22. In the U.S., pricing for this model continues to start at $1,599.
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Knowing Apple they are probably comparing it with those units.
I'm glad they came out with the base M5, but I'm really interested in what the Pro chips will do in likely early next year.
This is not true. What is true is that the EU passed a law that affects chargers and laptops. By early next year laptops are required in the EU to have the option to be purchased without a bundled charger. There's no banning of bundled chargers, just requiring an option without one. Apple is following the law early.
Apple reduced the price of the M5 MacBook Pro by €100 compared to the M4 base model and now have the standard option to purchase the laptop without the charger.
See my reply above. This is because of an EU law.
I hope you can change the SSD relatively easily like the Mac Mini. That would be a welcome upgrade
and the thing is, had Apple not soldered down the wireless card as in the past, then we can still upgrade the wireless card manually to get the latest wi-fi and bluetooth without needing to switch to a new computer.
It comes with even more amazingness, if you're in Europe and you want to get the 16GB version YOU CAN'T buy a charger. They literally don't allow that. How magically KRAZEY is dem katz in da coopertinoz?
I think it’s in the main MacRumors article about the new 14MBP on announcement day. RAM bandwidth up from 120ish to 155ish