MacBook Pro (M5, 14-inch, 2025)

I’m having buyers regret over the new MacBook M5 I just purchased. I agree with you, where is the Apple Intelligence?. Siri is still dumb as a bag of nails. The guy who redesigned the Safari browser should be hung it’s a waste of space. In addition Apple still likes to take over everything you do. W

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,

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

I had a ThinkPad in my previous gig and now I have the MacBook m5 and bought myself a private m4 pro 48. I hate windows now

Love my Surface Laptop which I use as my personal laptop. Got a M5 MBP for work and its also a great laptop (Other than annoyances with MacOS). I dont understand how Microsoft think its a good idea to increase the surface prices when Apple is basically doing the opposite when it comes to Neo. I wont

I’ve been experimenting with Immich on my new M5 MacBook Pro for the last month. (I’ve been experimenting with a variety of containerised applications in this same manner, figuring out everything while in bed before going to sleep each night, before I build a proper Proxmox server). Works great. I’m

I’ve been working concurrently in Revit and ArchiCAD for the last 12 years and have recently ditched Revit and windows altogether - ArchiCAD is by far the best for any residential work, you can create more detail in the 3D Models which also is reflected in elevations (real 3D detail with CI Tools wa

While I'm not a gamer, I have a MacBook m5 pro 64gb, and I have Windows 11 Arm and Ubuntu 26 Arm as VMs. They run fine, because it's not emulation, except when Windows needs to run X86/64 software, in which it does the translation internally just fine.

I also just went over from using a windows laptop to buying a base M5 MBP. Not because I was such a big apple fan, but because the overall package for the price was just too good to pass up. You don't get the good battery life, portable package, stable software and great performance anywhere else cu

My experience is that if you do basic editing, then it's fine, no issues, but when u move up to multiple mask layers with addition and subtraction, then yes, it will show struggles, sure shot, and if u touch the lens blur option, MacBook M5 starts to heat too much, even fans are working more than 60