Apple isn’t fairly able to launch its top-end MacBooks but. However as a pity prize for getting by the terrible yr of 2025, the engineers on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, California, have a brand new MacBook Professional with M5 to tide you over. Higher but, Apple claims this new 14-inch MacBook Professional gives higher battery life than earlier than.
The brand new MacBook Professional seems to be very, similar to final yr’s MacBook Professional with M4. It’s nonetheless utilizing the identical Liquid Retina XDR mini LED show as earlier iterations did. After all, which means it nonetheless has the notch hanging over the display screen, like a guillotine blade on the sting of a horrible descent, to not point out the identical Magic Keyboard design that’s change into normal throughout Mac merchandise. For those who have been hoping we’d lastly obtain the windfall of OLED on Mac, you’ll in all probability have to attend till subsequent yr on the earliest.
Apple claims the brand new M5 chip is constructed particularly for AI and graphics efficiency. The brand new model of the M-series silicon consists of new GPU cores, and every is full of a neural accelerator. That is supposed to supply 3.5 instances higher AI efficiency than the earlier era—however let’s be trustworthy, you actually care about the way it will carry out on graphics-intensive duties. The 14-inch MacBook Professional with M5’s 10-core GPU guarantees 1.6 instances sooner graphics efficiency in some inventive apps in comparison with the M4 chip. It ought to have higher multi-thread efficiency for longer workloads, which can profit code compiling or video modifying.
This would be the first MacBook to ship with macOS 26 Tahoe, which implies you’ll must get used to Liquid Glass and adjustments to the Highlight operate sooner reasonably than later. The brand new MacBook Professional begins at $1,600 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. You’ll have to spend $1,800 for a model with 1TB of storage and a whopping $2,000 for a mannequin with 24GB of RAM. The machine is up for preorder now, and items ought to begin transport Oct. 22, based on Apple. The MacBook is accessible within the ordinary House Black and Silver colours.
Dependable leakers have prompt {that a} new MacBook Professional, powered by the M5 Professional and M5 Max chips, might come subsequent yr, probably with an upgraded chip design. Intel just lately debuted its Panther Lake cellular chips with a singular design that expands the dimensions of the GPU, or graphics processing unit. Panther Lake makes use of a die-to-die bridge to attach its GPU and CPU, which means the previous may be bigger than it may very well be if the 2 have been housed on the identical die. Maybe Apple is taking an analogous strategy with its upcoming chips. An upgraded GPU would make sense, contemplating that the corporate is pushing gaming on Mac way over it has in earlier years.
No matter delights could also be in retailer for Mac followers in 2026, not less than Apple is signifying that it’s not going to boost the costs of its lower-end fashions, even because it sits within the eye of President Donald Trump’s tariff storm. Subsequent yr, nonetheless, might carry much more hardship to large tech’s provide chains. We’ll must see if the corporate’s present pricing scheme can survive.
