Black Friday shoppers are rushing through the aisles, their eyes transfixed to the screens and overwhelmed by discount offers, but just one machine cuts through the pandemonium with calm assurance. The 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 CPU, priced at $1,349 for Black Friday (was $1,599), arrives as a reliable solution for anyone who requires and expects their tools to simply work.
When you open the lid, a 14.2″ Liquid Retina XDR display greets you with mini-LED technology that manages to reach 1,600 nits in bright spots while being consistent at 1,000 nits throughout. And, with ProMotion enabled, everything runs smoothly at 120Hz, allowing you to scroll between timelines and zoom in on 3D previews without ever experiencing lag.
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The M5 chip does the heavy lifting with a balance that’s hard to match. The 10-core CPU breaks down into four performance cores for when you’re pushing it to the limit, and six efficiency cores for when you’re just cruising along at a moderate pace, and it turns out multi-threaded tasks run 20% faster than the M4. So when you’re compiling code for a whole project or processing a batch of raw photos from a shoot it’ll take you minutes, rather than the 30 minutes it used to take. A 10-core GPU brings graphics to life, rendering scenes 45% faster with third-generation ray tracing for realistic light bounces in animations or game previews. Developers performing simulations see frames stack up smoothly, and photographers can export high-resolution files without the machine grinding to a halt. Memory bandwidth is 153 terabytes per second, sending data to apps without bottlenecks, and 16GB of unified RAM allows dozens of apps to run simultaneously.
Apple boasts that the battery would easily last up to 24 hours of off-and-on work – online browsing, document manipulation, and light export work – and our testing back that up with 20 hours of continuous video playback or 18 hours of marathon coding sessions. The M5 is more energy-efficient than its predecessor, consuming an average of only 23 watts during those marathon encoding sessions. Hop in and charge up via MagSafe in under two hours to get back to work, or slip in a 30-minute top-up and you’re ready to go.
Cables are neatly arranged for quick and easy connections; the days of wrestling with adapters are over. The M5 has three Thunderbolt 4 connections to accommodate your 6K external monitors, fast docks, and direct transfers to your SSD, with each capable of moving data at 40 gigabits per second. Your HDMI 2.1 port plugs straight into that projector at the front of the room for presentations, while the SDXC card reader can swallow a memory card from your camera in seconds flat. There’s even a 3.5mm headphone jack for mixing records, while the MagSafe cable keeps it organized without interfering with the other ports.
