Apple has just slapped its shiny new M5 chip into the 14-inch MacBook Pro, and yes, that means yet another round of “fastest MacBook ever” headlines. But this time, Apple isn’t bluffing. The M5 delivers up to 3.5x better AI performance than its predecessor, the M4, and backs it up with a GPU that has a Neural Accelerator stuffed into every core. Translation: more speed for your AI doodles, LLM tinkering, or whatever excuse you give your boss for running Stable Diffusion all day.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 also gets a CPU bump, a Neural Engine that works overtime, and memory bandwidth that jumps to over 150 GB/s. If you thought importing RAWs or exporting 4K edits was already quick, this one’s faster. Graphics are up to 1.6x better than the last-gen model, and there’s enough power efficiency to keep this thing running for up to 24 hours on a single charge. Yes, a full day. Not that anyone really wants to sit through a 24-hour Zoom call, but now you could.
This launch lines up neatly with Apple’s M5-powered iPad Pro and the Vision Pro headset, meaning Cupertino is going all-in on AI horsepower across its lineup. Same story, different screen size. Still, the MacBook Pro remains the workhorse in the family—the one you grab when “real work” is due.
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 starts at US$1,599, available in silver and space black, and ships on October 22.
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