128gb of memory, it's a nice change for Apple not to lag in that department for once, wonder what such a machine will cost though.
They've offered 128gb of RAM since at least the M3.
MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
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They’re literally not changing
It did change. They bumped $200 on the entire line. So even the 16GB version is more expensive. I'd love to have customers like Apple. Bumps $200: "it didn't change!!!" And no power adapter included.
> I'd love to have customers like Apple. Bumps $200: "it didn't change!!!"
Try making a good product that people love?
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> Look how many people bought Minis and ended up just paying for API calls anyway. (Saw it IRL 2x, see it on reddit openclaw daily) Aren't the OpenClaw enjoyers buying Mac Minis because it's the cheapest thing which runs macOS, the only platform which can programmatically interface with iMessage and other Apple ecosystem stuff? It has nothing to do with the hardware really. Still, buying a brand new Mac Mini for that…
It’s exactly that. They are buying the base model just for that. You are not going to do much local AI with those 16GB of ram anyway, it could be useful for small things but the main purpose of the Mini is being able to interact with the apple apps and services.
16GB should be enough for TTS/Voice models running locally no ? I was thinking about having a home assistant setup like that where the voice is local and the brain is API based
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#304Why doesn't this excite me anymore?
It excites me, since I am finally going to replace my 2019 Intel MacBook Pro!
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> I still think Apple has a huge opportunity in privacy first LLMs This correlation of Apple and privacy needs to rest. They have consistently proven to be otherwise - despite heavily marketing themselves as "privacy-first" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
I think it's a little telling that the best you can do is a seven year old article.
No other company makes you tell them every application you install on your device. No other company makes you tell them every location you read from your GPS sensor.
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#306"Scaling up performance from M5 and offering the same breakthrough GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, M5 Pro and M5 Max deliver up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing than M4 Pro and M4 Max, and up to 8x AI image generation than M1 Pro and M1 Max." Are they doubling down on local LLMs then? I still think Apple has a huge opportunity in privacy first LLMs but so far I'm not seeing much execution.…
have you seen that github repo where they unlock the true power of NE?
Have a link?
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#307I chased down what the "4x faster at AI tasks" was measuring: > Testing conducted by Apple in January 2026 using preproduction 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB of unified memory, and 4TB SSD, and production 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air systems with Apple M4, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB of unified memory, and 2TB SSD. Time to first token measured with an 8K-to…
Seems very reasonable to me
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
It did change. They bumped $200 on the entire line. So even the 16GB version is more expensive. I'd love to have customers like Apple. Bumps $200: "it didn't change!!!" And no power adapter included.
The EU forbids them from including power adapters. They're still included everywhere else.
Except that it's literally not true and people are repeating it for some stupid reason, I assume you just never actually looked it up - laptops are specifically excluded from that regulation, and in fact Apple does bundle a power adapter with their laptops, just not on the cheapest models.
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#309Yeah, this feels like the annual “nice, but do I actually need it?” refresh if you’re already on an M4 Pro.
I'm on an M1 Pro and it's still a "nice, but do I actually need it?". They've done too well on the hardware side.
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My wife’s 8GB MacBook Air crashed yesterday with Firefox and Find My open and nothing else because of running out of RAM, so, sort of, but they’re not magic. (Find My was using 3GB of memory!)
So Firefox was using 5gb? There's your problem.
It’s a losing battle me trying to tell my wife to close her Firefox tabs, haha, but yes, Firefox does use a lot of ram when you have 500 tabs. Maybe I’ll get her a 64GB MacBook Pro for the premium web browsing experience she so desires!