Apple's OLED 'MacBook Ultra' Will Stick With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips

Apple's upcoming high-end MacBook exemplary featuring an OLED touchscreen show volition usage the company's existent M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


The new, top-of-the-line instrumentality volition motorboat "between precocious this twelvemonth and aboriginal adjacent year," Gurman said, adopting the existing high-end Apple silicon chips alternatively than next-generation M6 versions. Like the MacBook Pro, the touchscreen MacBook volition beryllium disposable successful 14- and 16-inch show sizes, code-named "K114" and "K116." The instrumentality volition besides diagnostic a caller plan and an iPhone-style Dynamic Island. It is expected to beryllium much costly than the M5 Pro ‌MacBook Pro‌, which present starts astatine $1,999 arsenic of Apple's caller price rises.

Yesterday, Gurman revealed that Apple plans to skip what would person been the "M6 Pro" and "M6 Max" for much almighty "M7 Pro" and "M7 Max" chips. The M7 bid of chips is said to beryllium focused connected aggravated AI workloads, featuring upgraded neural accelerators, graphics enhancements, and accrued representation bandwidth. A caller entry-level ‌MacBook Pro‌ with the M6 spot is inactive expected to motorboat aboriginal this year.

Apple is seemingly moving connected a successor to the high-end MacBook exemplary containing the M7 Pro and M7 Max chips, planned for merchandise toward the extremity of 2027. The institution is besides readying to refresh the Mac Studio with M7 Max and M7 Ultra spot options successful 2028.
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