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Skipping the New MacBook Pro? Here Are the Rumors About M5 Models

I am betting all of my money on either a 2026 14” or 16” macbook pro m6 max. I also still love my 16” macbook pro which i cannot fault till today.
 
Apple goes in reverse compared to the industry in lost of things, like selling bigger laptops for more, and starting a new chips series with the lower end models. I hope M5 will debut with Ultra and Max in the Studio at wwdc, and every other model should upgrade to m5 by fall. Cannibalization is minimal contrary to what a lot of people says, but going in reverse order and huge discrepancies in cpu gen is killing studio sales by generating the "I should wait, who knows what they announce in a couple of months"-effect. They do this with iphones, and it doesn't hurt the sales. Time for a fixed release cadence for EVERYTHING.
 
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All in all, expect the MacBook Pro to receive yet another modest spec bump with performance improvements and other internal upgrades next year, and start saving your money for the two-generations-away models with a "total redesign."
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The MacBook Pro I want *ALWAYS* cost around $6k 😅😅😅
 
ls1dreams said:
Do people think an OLED screen in a macbook is worth it? mini-LED is quite good and I kind of worry about burn in.

I'm on an M1 Max and will prob pick up a machine somewhere in the M6-M7 range I think. Definitely at least waiting for wi-fi 7 and curious what new AI capabilities might come out.
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There are no issues with burn in on the new iPad Pro, so I think it should be fine. I don’t have any complaints about the current displays, but OLED could save quite a bit of power during use.
 
Expecting no changes with M5 version next year. Should only be processor upgrades. OLED with M6 will be a major change.
 
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Do people think an OLED screen in a macbook is worth it? mini-LED is quite good and I kind of worry about burn in.

I'm on an M1 Max and will prob pick up a machine somewhere in the M6-M7 range I think. Definitely at least waiting for wi-fi 7 and curious what new AI capabilities might come out.
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There will be the 1% that swear it's much better, I'm not so sure?
99.9% won't notice it in everyday use, however they will draw less power, therefore better for the batteries, although no doubt Apple will use that to reduce the batteries, burn in will be an issue for heavy users, therefore Apple care a must, which is great for Apple....
By the time you upgrade, not sure you will have a choice and the prices will go up for sure.
I think the M4 is the last sweet deal for a while.
 
I am thinking about changing my M2 Air for a basic Pro in the M8 generation or around that, so let's see where the 2026 redesign goes...
For now, not interested in the slightest
 
I will of course wait till m6 comes out. Curently i am on a old intel mac. But i personaly liked the last looking intel macbook pro designwise. So i will wait not only cause of the new oled. But also cause of the new design and the 2nm chip....
 
mrhick01 said:
There were a lot of people in this forum who would disagree with you here.

There were dark days at Apple between 2013-2017. Intel's chip development path couldn't keep up with Jony Ive's vision of thinness, and John Ternes had to get a bump and Srouji et. al started on Apple Silicon.

A complaint like this seems like an embarrassment of riches. Some upfront typers in these forums could stand to exercise some personal discipline—just because Apple rolls out new chips and products doesn't mean that you have to buy them.

If your M1 generation keeps working well for you, keep it! If you need, or want, a new computer or device, buy it if you can afford it.
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You make some valid points, however 10-15% upgrades to the processors aren't worth rolling out (which is what we got from M1 through to M3), the only reason M4 is substantially faster than the M3 is because M3 3nm process was botched at the first attempt.
The only reason we get these annual upgrades is to stay on top of the pile as far as the chip wars are concerned with various manufacturers.
They all profess to care about our planet, but in reality it's just PR 😏
M4 is the first chip, worth upgrading to from M1 and getting real meaningful differences in every day use, that's just a fact.
 
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I try to hold out on phone upgrades every 4-5 years and desktop every 7-9 years. As I’m a cheap person. My 2018 mini is only 6 years old and still going strong. I hate laptops but my work computer is so limited that it is hard to do some of the stuff I need to do and my 12.9 m2 ipad is too limiting and painful to work with (the file system, software like office 365 is crap, etc). A laptop would be helpful but $2300 for a M4 pro (or even $1800 for M4) is a bit much for me to swallow with working hardware.
 
CarlJ said:
Two of the dimensions are limited by the size of the screen (until we get sci-fi-quality projectable / rollable screens). The third dimension is currently at 0.66" - frankly, it's thin enough - there's no benefit to making it any thinner, and it just increases the risk of bending it.
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And overheating. Seriously, you need space for thermals (and batteries by all means). There is no magical free lunch here.

Making the design thinner limits your design options, goes against the actual pro usage of the pros, and is hard to backpedal from.

Even if they surely will save a few tens of millions in shipping and materials. It is purely dumb.
 
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My M1 Max is still doing just fine - M4 Pro is compelling but I won't update until apple either shrinks that stupid notch or make it actually useful (eg faceid).

I don't get the excitement some people seem to have over the OLED screens in a 14"/16" device though - current miniled screens have huge amount of backlight zones and negligible blooming thanks to it. Most people wouldn't be able to distinguish the two
 
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Will be interesting to see if the M5 debuts on the next iPad Pro like they did with the M4 chip. That was quite a shocker.
 
krspkbl said:
OLED is the best screen tech out there currently. Burn in protection has improved a lot since early panels. We've had OLED in devices for many years now.

I've owned countless devices with OLED and used them for thousands of hours and I've yet to see burn in.

The only device I have that doesn't have OLED is my M3 Air. I wish it had OLED but it seems if Apple were to put OLED in it would raise the cost of the Air quite a bit and it's their entry MacBook so they will be waiting until it's cheaper.

I have 2 OLED tvs, oled iphone, oled steam deck, oled switch, my apple watch is oled, my PC monitor is OLED. Despite all my other displays being OLED the display on the Air is probably one of the best LCD i've ever used. The only downside is the glowing blacks. It's not really an issue unless I've got a lot of dark areas on my screen like when watching something with black bars.

Mini LED is awful and the sooner MicroLED comes out to replace it then all the better. Also then people will stop worrying about OLED even though it's a non issue for 99% of people. MicroLED is the only display tech that will beat OLED.
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It has already been stated that Apple has stopped pursuing research on MicroLED because it is still cost-prohibitive to manufacture compared to OLED technology. They will likely add OLED with at least a 90hz refresh to the MacBook Air lineup to compete better with Qualcomm models. They will probably add a version of Tandem OLED to the MacBook Pro lineup as the more expensive option.
 
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It has already been stated that Apple has stopped pursuing research on MicroLED because it is still cost-prohibitive to manufacture compared to OLED technology. They will likely add OLED with at least a 90hz refresh to the MacBook Air lineup to compete better with Qualcomm models. They will probably add a version of Tandem OLED to the MacBook Pro lineup as the more expensive option.
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They’ve halted the research for now. It’s likely we’ll eventually move past the flawed OLED.
 
Still happy with my M1 MacBook Air.
I'll consider upgrading when they do a design refresh and move away from the current Pro wannabe design and go back to the roots with a device that deserves the Air name.
 
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