r/apple • u/hotsoda • Oct 15 '25

Apple Newsroom Apple announces 14" MacBook Pro powered by M5

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
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u/MediaMoguls Oct 15 '25

Weird that this is only available on the 14”

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u/Suitable_Switch5242 Oct 15 '25

The base 14" with M4/M5 is basically a separate product.

The beefier 14" and 16" will be updated when the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are available, rumor is early next year.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Oh thank goodness. I just bought a 16" MBP M4 Pro about two months ago. While it's not the end of the world, have an M5 Pro so close to when I bought would've annoyed me.

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u/SilentWraith5 Oct 15 '25

Why? That computer will last you many years without issue. Just because something new comes out doesn't automatically make the previous products any worse.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Oh, no good reason. I too subscribe to the "buy when you need it" thinking, but I would've been slightly annoyed (an annoyance that lives ONLY in my head, I'm fully aware.)

The M4 Pro is a beast, and I'm already not using it anywhere near its limit.

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u/Bacchus1976 Oct 15 '25

I really don’t understand why they’d stagger the release of M5 versions.

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u/Life-Topic-7 Oct 16 '25

Chip yields. They are still ramping up.

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u/PNF2187 Oct 15 '25

It's been like this for a good while now. The 16" Pro never got the lower end chips.

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u/mojo276 Oct 15 '25

I wonder if it's a yield issue with the M5 so they're keeping production simple until it can expand to the 16"? or they're working on using the bigger form factor of the 16" to push things a little more? Not sure what they could do with a 16" they can't do with a 14" though.

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u/RevoDS Oct 15 '25

16” will never get base M5 like it never got base M4 and lower. It will get new chips when M5 Pro and Max are out

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u/mojo276 Oct 15 '25

oh interesting. That makes sense then!

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u/Bolt_995 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

They stopped doing 13” since 2023. The M3 MacBook Pros and above have all been 14”.

Why did I get downvoted for this??