Overview
- The 14‑ and 16‑inch MacBook Pro add M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with Neural Accelerators, delivering up to 4x faster AI performance than the previous generation and up to 8x versus M1.
- Apple’s Fusion Architecture links two dies in a single SoC and supports up to 18 CPU cores and GPUs up to 40 cores, with M5 Pro offering up to 64GB/307GB/s and M5 Max up to 128GB/614GB/s unified memory.
- Base storage jumps to 512GB on MacBook Air, 1TB on M5 Pro models and 2TB on M5 Max, with SSD throughput up to 2x faster and peak speeds around 14.5GB/s.
- An N1 wireless chip brings Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 across the lineup, while MacBook Pro adds Thunderbolt 5, HDMI up to 8K, SDXC and MagSafe, plus up to 24 hours of battery life.
- Prices increase across models — for example, MacBook Air now starts at $1,099 and the 14‑inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro at $2,199 — a change Bloomberg ties to a memory‑chip shortage; orders open March 4 with deliveries from March 11.