MacBook Pro (M5, 14-inch, 2025)

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MacBook Pro (M5, 14-inch, 2025)

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MacBook Pro With Touch Screen and New Mac Studio Likely 'Postponed'

Realistically, it's still solid advice though. We have: New redesign New Tandem OLED display First GAAFET processor First LPDDR6 memory architecture That should put it in one of best year-over-year upgrades of all time, much like first Apple Silicon MBP and the first Retina MBPs are remembered today

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m0rogfar in r/mac

April 20, 2026 6:28 AM

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Which one is best for editing videos and Lightroom edits on the go?

This is inane. This is a fundamentally flawed understanding of how these systems work. For pure photo-editing (Lightroom / Photoshop) on the built-in screen, the 14” MacBook Pro M5 is the stronger, more balanced choice out of the box. The Ryzen 9 / RTX 5070 Ti laptop can be faster in some heavy batc

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_Veni_Vidi_Vigo_ in r/AskPhotography

November 21, 2025 3:36 PM

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Analysis of the Apple M5 SoC: Apple silicon extends its lead over AMD, Intel and Qualcomm

I'm sure some folks want more performance even at higher power. But, IMO, that should be resesrved for desktops. Or at least give us an option to throttle just the CPU. As NBC writes and I agree on 1T power (Cinebench is just one example; seeing the power draw of the "everyday" loads would be great)

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-protonsandneutrons- in r/hardware

October 23, 2025 6:57 AM

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Is there any software engineers out there that use MacBook Air instead of MacBook Pro?

i was using a 16" 32gb m1 pro and not really planning on replacing for another year. Due to circumstances outside of my control I had to buy a new laptop and I bought an 13" 24gb m4 air . No regrets.Although if I was buying today it would likely be the 14" m5 mbp. I just got the m1 pro back... it fe

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Expert-Reaction-7472 in r/mac

November 24, 2025 10:17 PM

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666: We Have Nothing That Hot

Even when they specifically have a chapter marker for a topic, they seem strangely unprepared and uninformed, like two episodes ago, they had a chapter about the M5 MBP, but Casey, when reading the disk benchmark (which apparently they wanted to make a point about), wasn’t sure about the unit for th

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chucker23n in r/ATPfm

November 22, 2025 12:35 PM

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Need advice from y'all - M4/M3/M5 architecture

I would hold off until M5 is available before making an investment in Mac Studio. For general performance, the base M5 is benchmarking about 15% faster in CPU multi over M4. Reason enough to wait a few months before splashing on a high-end machine. (Consider that the base M5 in MacBook Pro scores ne

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PracticlySpeaking in r/MacStudio

November 21, 2025 4:33 PM

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Sound Engineering software compatibility with laptops?

There are some compatibility issues at the moment with M5 chips (including base, pro, and max chips) and some pieces of software and hardware, but these are just bugs because these chips are still fairly new. Apple changed the core layout on the new chips, which messes with some low-level software,

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bionicbob321 in r/livesoundgear

May 11, 2026 4:32 PM

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Is it worth it to get any m5 MBP if you work on pro tools?

I haven’t used the newest ones, but I use an M1 Mac Studio and an M3 MacBook Pro and they both work great with Pro Tools. I do a little bit of everything. Film, music, podcasts. I’ve never had any serious issues and I’ve pushed both machines pretty hard. If people are saying the M5 is causing issues

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whoisgarypiano in r/Avid

May 14, 2026 8:36 PM

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DigiTech has new CaptureOne; photographer has old C1?

Id minimally upgrade to something with Apple Silicone M3 +, it’s a huge step forward in technology and will last you many more years I’m sure. If wanting to save some money find a gently used one. The M5 mbp is great but just with being on a modern machine you can run the same osx as that digi tech.

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mctaco in r/captureone

April 4, 2026 1:06 AM

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【Question】I want to buy a Mac Studio — Which is better: the M4 Max (36GB) for $1,670 or the M1 Max (32GB) for $800?

The m1 will surely meet your needs. And they are still selling m1 new at Walmart so I think Apple will update the m1 for a long time to come. My M1 Max Mac Studio runs just as fine as my new m5 mbp.

Dense_Permission_969 in r/MacStudio

November 14, 2025 5:16 PM

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