Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro gets an M5 chip bump and faster storage

On the extracurricular it’s the aforesaid laptop arsenic past year.

Apple is refreshing its 14-inch MacBook Pro with a caller processor. Announced this greeting via press release, the entry-level MacBook Pro present features an M5 chip, faster storage, and a claimed 24 hours of artillery life. The remainder of the plan remains the same, and the terms inactive starts astatine $1,599 for a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD. Preorders are disposable now, with availability expected October 22nd.

Apple claims the M5 spot is 3.5x faster astatine AI tasks than the M4, acknowledgment to a next-gen 10-core GPU with “a Neural Accelerator successful each core.” The caller GPU besides means 1.6x faster graphics show and up to 1.6x higher framework rates successful games implicit the M4 MacBook Pro. Multithreaded show is besides accrued by 20 percent, and the M5 spot successful the 14-inch Pro besides has higher representation bandwidth of 153Gbps (the M4 had 120Gbps). For storage, users tin present take up to a 4TB SSD — antecedently lone disposable if you upgraded to the M4 Pro chip.

Just astir everything other astir the caller 14-inch MacBook Pro matches the erstwhile model. (Take a look astatine Apple’s ain side-by-side comparison connected its site.) It’s got the aforesaid ports, screen, battery, webcam, networking specs, and speakers arsenic the M4 generation. There’s not adjacent a caller color.

That’s not specified a atrocious thing, arsenic past year’s basal Pro laptop saw a precise bully revision erstwhile it went to the M4 chip: gaining a 3rd USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 larboard and the enactment for an anti-glare display. It proved a large quality-of-life improvement implicit the M3 procreation earlier it, and became 1 of my idiosyncratic favorites for students and contented creation.