Yesterday Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman detailed a years-long roadmap for upcoming Macs, and per his report, it sounds like two new models might skip the base M5 chip and go straight to M6.
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Update April 8: Amazon has brought back new inventory of the 512GB model 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro in space black for $1,399.97. This is a great deal if you want a brand new machine and not a refurbished laptop.
Apple has added the plain M5 MacBook Pro to its refurbished store for a discounted price. However, the base storage change from last month means the value compared to new discounted hardware might not be as competitive as usual.
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The arrival of the M5 MacBook Air means that Apple once again has two laptops with the standard M5 chip inside. Apple first put the plain M5 chip inside a laptop with the 14-inch MacBook Pro.
Both machines occupy the “under $2000” space in Apple’s laptop lineup. Here’s how the two MacBooks with the same chip compare.
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While the new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros won’t be available until March 11, the first M5 Max benchmark has already appeared on Geekbench. Here are the results.
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Prior to yesterday’s launch of the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Apple Silicon chips had two types of core: efficiency and performance.
The M5 chips now have three types of core, with a complication caused by the renaming of one of them. Here’s what’s going on …
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Apple has just announced the new, more powerful MacBook Pro models powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.
In previous editions of Apple Silicon, the Pro variant was essentially just two chips, while the Max was four. But for the M5 generation, Apple has combined two dies into a single chip …
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Apple has officially announced the new M5 MacBook Air. While the starting price has increased by $100, it now comes with double the starting storage, faster SSD speeds, and higher top-end storage.
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Two laptops with the latest Intel chips have beaten out the MacBook Pro with M5 chip – but it’s already clear that this will be an extremely short-lived victory.
Benchmark results show impressive multi-core scores for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 in laptops from MSI and Lenovo …
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We’re likely less than two weeks away from the launch of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models. Performance estimates based on extrapolating from the difference between the base M4 and the more powerful variants suggests that the M5 Max MacBook Pro could deliver “astounding” Geekbench scores.
The analysis suggests that the M5 Max chip may be the first Apple GPU ever to break 250,000 on the Geekbench 6 compute test …
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A new post on Apple’s Machine Learning Research blog shows how much the M5 Apple silicon improved over the M4 when it comes to running a local LLM. Here are the details.
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Last week we learned that Apple plans to release new M5 Mac mini and Mac Studio models next year, but now thanks to a new report we have a much better idea of when to expect each launch.
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Most people upgrade their MacBook Pro no more frequently than once every five years, and some leave it considerably longer than that. But Apple always makes it sound like even last year’s model is now hopelessly outdated, something it did again with the launch of the M5 MacBook Pro.
There’s no doubt that the company is achieving incredibly impressive year-on-year increases in Apple Silicon performance, but real-life tests show that upgrading from one generation to the next doesn’t make sense for the vast majority of MacBook owners …
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Apple’s new M5 chip has several higher-end variants coming next year, and according to a new report, an M5 Ultra will be among them.
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Apple’s first M5 Mac, the 14-inch MacBook Pro, debuted last month. But several more M5 Macs are in the works, and a new report outlines which models to expect next in the coming year.
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Apple’s new M5 chip is officially here, with the M5 iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro arriving in stores today. To mark the occasion, a couple of sites have published charts that show the progress of the M-series line over time.
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iPad Pro expert and all-around good guy Stephen Robles has an awesome interview with a couple of Apple folks that’s all about the new M5 model.
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Earlier this week, Apple unveiled three new products with the M5 chip, built on the third generation 3nm process. While it’s only in one Mac at the moment – the 14-inch MacBook Pro – early benchmark results look incredibly promising.
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Even five years on, I’m still blown away by the impressiveness of Apple Silicon Macs. I’m still rocking a pair of M1-powered MacBooks myself, albeit one of them the M1 Max, and I’ve never felt that either one was underpowered.
Apple yesterday told us that the latest generation M5 chip is significantly better than even the M4. But the most impressive thing about the chip isn’t found inside the MacBook Pro …
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Today, Apple launched the latest entry in their M-series line of Apple silicon chips, the M5 chip. Here’s how it compares to the M4 chip.
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Today Apple unveiled its M5 chip alongside a trio of new M5-equipped products: the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro. Here are the details.
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Today, Apple’s as-yet-unannounced M5 iPad Pro was seemingly leaked by the same YouTuber who last year leaked the M4 MacBook Pro. Thanks to the surprise reveal, we now have benchmarks for Apple’s forthcoming M5 chip, and they point to big gains coming in a key area.
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It’s almost time for Apple’s M5 chip to debut, and that means the first M5 Macs are coming soon too. Here’s what the latest rumors indicate about when to expect new M5 Mac models like the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
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Apple’s next-gen M5 chip is coming soon, debuting in this fall’s new iPad Pro model. But despite this being the second year in a row the iPad gets an M-class chip first, this time will be different for two key reasons.
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Apple silicon debuted in 2020 with the first M-class chip, the M1, which launched in MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. But last year, Apple made a big product shift when it launched the M4, and per a new report, that trend looks set to continue with the upcoming M5 chip.
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