Top Stories: New M5 MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro

Apple's M5 spot is here, making a splash successful 3 caller products this week to present notable show improvements.


This week besides saw Apple denote a insignificant rebrand for its Apple TV+ streaming service, portion the institution continues enactment connected upcoming bundle updates to present caller features and code bugs, truthful work connected beneath for each the details!

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Everything Apple Announced This Week

We haven't gotten a 2nd autumn lawsuit this year, but Apple did unveil updated products with a bid of property releases that went retired connected Wednesday of this week. A new M5 chip made an quality successful updated MacBook Pro, Vision Pro, and iPad Pro models.


All of the caller products are disposable for pre-order present up of a motorboat adjacent Wednesday, October 22, and beryllium definite to check retired the latest occurrence of The MacRumors Show wherever Dan and Hartley speech done each of the announcements.

Apple Announces New 14-Inch MacBook Pro With M5 Chip

Apple this week updated the basal 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 chip, portion much almighty 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models stay disposable with M4 Pro and M4 Max spot options.


In summation to the faster M5 chip, the caller basal MacBook Pro tin present beryllium configured with up to 4TB of retention that is up to doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic successful the M4 model.

Notably, the M5 MacBook Pro does not vessel with a powerfulness adapter successful Europe, with Apple removing it from the container successful effect to upcoming EU regulations that volition necessitate powerfulness adapters to beryllium optional, though it could person elected to code the request successful a much consumer-friendly way.

Apple Debuts New iPad Pro With M5 Chip, Faster Charging, and More

Apple connected Wednesday besides announced the next-generation iPad Pro, featuring the custom-designed M5, C1X, and N1 chips.


The M5 spot has up to a 10-core CPU, with a next-generation GPU with Neural Accelerator successful each halfway for important improvements successful AI performance, portion Apple's customized N1 networking spot delivers Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support. Apple's customized C1X modem successful cellular models supports up to 50% faster information performance.

Apple Updates Vision Pro With M5 Chip, Dual Knit Band, and 120Hz Support

Apple this week updated the Vision Pro headset with its next-generation M5 chip for faster performance, and a much comfy Dual Knit Band.


With the M5 chip, the Vision Pro offers faster show and longer artillery beingness compared to the erstwhile exemplary with the M2 chip. It besides renders much pixels, allowing for sharper images and crisper text, and the Vision Pro tin present ramp up to a 120Hz refresh complaint to trim question blur and supply a smoother acquisition erstwhile utilizing Mac Virtual Display.

Apple TV+ Being Rebranded arsenic Apple TV

Buried successful its announcement this week astir "F1: The Movie" making its streaming debut connected December 12, Apple besides revealed that Apple TV+ is being rebranded arsenic simply ‌Apple TV‌.


A azygous enactment adjacent the extremity of the property merchandise states "‌Apple TV‌+ is present simply ‌Apple TV‌, with a vibrant caller identity," which has started to look successful the latest betas of iOS 26.1 and related updates successful the signifier of a much colorful icon.

iOS 26.0.2 Update for iPhones Coming Soon

Apple's bundle engineers continue to internally trial iOS 26.0.2, according to MacRumors logs, which person been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions.


iOS 26.0.2 volition apt beryllium a insignificant update that addresses bugs and/or information vulnerabilities, but we bash not cognize immoderate circumstantial details yet.

The pending update comes arsenic Apple continues beta investigating connected the much important iOS 26.1 and related updates.

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