Apple announced a redesigned MacBook Pro featuring an OLED touchscreen called ProLED XDR, thinner bezels, and lighter builds, with the 14-inch model weighing three pounds and the 16-inch model four pounds. The laptops run on M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, offer 2,000 nits peak brightness and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and retain three Thunderbolt 5 ports, MagSafe, HDMI, a headphone jack and an SD card slot. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch model at $3,399, the highest launch prices yet for the line.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-28
Apple introduced a redesigned MacBook Pro featuring its first touch-enabled display, a tandem OLED panel called PROLED XDR, and a glowing Apple logo. The laptops run on M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, come in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes starting at $2899 and $3399 respectively, and are available in silver or space black with standard or nano-texture finishes. Pre-orders opened today with deliveries beginning November 6.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-28
Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro with OLED display and touchscreen starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model and $3,399 for the 16-inch model, but fully upgraded configurations reach $14,249 and $14,549 respectively. The top prices include an M5 Max chip, nano-texture glass, 128GB of memory, and 16TB of storage.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Apple unveiled a new MacBook Pro featuring a tandem OLED touchscreen with up to 2,000 nits brightness, 120Hz refresh rate, and a built-in touch sensor, running on M5 Pro or M5 Max chips. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, both preorderable now and shipping November 6th, with slimmer, lighter designs and up to 24 hours of battery life.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
The 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max chip, 36GB of RAM and 2TB of storage has dropped to $3,499, a 20 percent discount and $400 less than it cost just days earlier. Retailers say this is $150 below any previous sale price for this configuration, even after Apple raised prices across the lineup in June.
wired.com
· 2026-10-25
Apple is expected to unveil a redesigned MacBook Pro at an October 28 event, featuring a new industrial design, OLED touchscreen display, Dynamic Island and no notch. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the laptop will keep the same M5 Pro and M5 Max chips released earlier this year rather than offer a performance upgrade, as Apple reportedly skipped M6 chips to focus on M7 Pro and Max for 2027.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-23
A review of the ASUS ProArt P16 laptop equipped with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip and 128GB of RAM found strong GPU, NPU and AI benchmark performance, outperforming a MacBook Pro with M5 Max in Geekbench 6 GPU tests and UL Procyon AI benchmarks. However, the system scored lower than a Snapdragon X2 Elite-powered ASUS A16 in PCMark 10 and single-threaded CPU tests. The laptop reportedly ran large local AI models like Qwen3.8 27B alongside demanding games such as Cyberpunk 2077 without performance slowdowns.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-23
Amazon is selling Apple's 16.2-inch MacBook Pro configured with an M5 Max chip, 36GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD for $3,499, a $900 reduction from its original price. This marks the lowest price yet recorded for this particular configuration.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-10-22
Apple is preparing to unveil its first MacBook Pro redesign in five years, reportedly retaining the current M5 Pro and M5 Max chips but reengineering the internal layout to make the laptop notably lighter. The redesign is also expected to introduce an OLED display with touchscreen support, a departure from the current Liquid Retina XDR panel, plus a notch-free screen design.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-22
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter, Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro will be 'significantly' lighter than current models, thanks to reengineered internals and miniaturized components. The laptops, expected within a month, will also be Apple's first with a touchscreen and Tandem OLED display, running M5 Pro and M5 Max chips rather than higher-end M6 parts.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-04
Apple's Mac Studio lineup ranges from a $2,500 base model with the M5 Max chip up to configurations exceeding $5,899, with a separate M5 Ultra tier starting at $5,500 that supports up to 512GB of unified memory. The M5 Ultra combines two M5 Max chips and can be clustered four-wide over Thunderbolt 5 for even greater performance, aimed at running massive local AI models and handling uncompressed 8K video work.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-21
Apple has begun shipping the redesigned Mac Studio, keeping its 2022-era chassis but adding M5 Max and M5 Ultra chip options in place of last year's M4 Max and M3 Ultra. The top configuration reviewed—36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 256GB RAM, 4TB storage—runs $12,299, while entry M5 Max and M5 Ultra models start at $2,499 and $5,499 respectively.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-21
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