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MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by bombcar »

abiraja wrote: post #553
mixtureoftakes wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll get slightly more performance and ever so slightly less battery life. I'd do it

Thanks for the advice! Gonna do it.

You might also get more monitor support:

M5 Supports up to two external displays over any combination of Thunderbolt and HDMI ports:

Two displays up to a native resolution of 6K at 60Hz or 4K at 144Hz or

One display up to a native resolution of 8K at 60Hz or 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 240Hz

M5 Pro Supports up to three external displays over any combination of Thunderbolt and HDMI ports:

Three displays up to a native resolution of 6K at 60Hz or 4K at 144Hz or

One display up to a native resolution of 8K at 60Hz or 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 240Hz plus a second display up to a native resolution of 5K at 120Hz or 4K at 200Hz

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by unethical_ban »

I wonder how many more years Apple is going to quote Macbook's improvements vs. Intel-based Macbooks. They must have some analytics that show a large number of people still on those devices for them to use that as a talking point, but it comes off as "coming up with something because the difference in one generation is low".

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by brikym »

nsbk wrote: post #7

The hardware looks amazing! Too bad they will ship with Tahoe installed. I’m not upgrading until I see in which direction the next Mac OS release goes

Exactly. My org forces me to use Tahoe. The left hand slows you down while the right the right giveth performance and taketh money.

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by elsombrero »

efxhoy wrote: post #506
giancarlostoro wrote: post #437

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On my 24GB RAM M4 Pro MBP some models run very quickly through LM Studio to Zed, I was able to ask it to write some code. Course my fan starts spinning off like the worlds ending, but its still impressive what I can do 100% locally. I can't imagine on a more serious setup like the Mac Studio.

How is the output quality of the smaller models?

not good enough for coding anything more than simple scripts.

generally, the less parameters, the less knowledge they have.

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by spartanatreyu »

GeekyBear wrote: post #376

The most interesting change for the M5 Pro and Max is Apple moving to a bonded chiplet strategy from a single monolithic die. > The tech giant says the chips are engineered around its new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC), which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified memory controller, Neural Engine, and Thunderbol…

> The CPU now features six “super cores,” which is Apple’s term for its highest-performance cores, alongside 12 all-new performance cores.

Before:

"We have 6 performance cores and 12 efficiency cores"

After:

"We have 6 super cores and 12 performance cores"

"Wow, how did you achieve this?"

"We changed the names."

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by bombcar »

pvtmert wrote: post #521
kylec wrote: post #227

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I'm assuming you're in the EU or UK, Apple is required by law to not include a power adapter: https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/15/eu-gets-what-it-a... In the US they provide one in the box free of charge.

Nope, they are required to have an option to opt-out from adapter. They choose to charge for one! https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/16/no-the-eu-didnt-ban-apple-fro...

The option to opt out is effectively the same as charging to include one, unless you include the variation where you can opt out and pay the same price to not get one.

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by whiterock »

fl0ki wrote: post #319

For those who don't already know, you can get a lot of PC gaming performance out of these machines using Sikarugir. You can install all of Steam via winetricks and go from there, or launch DRM-free games directly. https://github.com/Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir

oh, you mean there is a free alternative to crossover? :O

Re: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

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Post by bombcar »

vardump wrote: post #206
tristor wrote: post #198

I am very excited by this, but I am a bit dampened that the maximum memory available is 128GB. I was really hoping for 256GB, which would allow me to run frontier models locally. I think with 128GB it's still feasible to use this with something like Qwen3-Coder-Next and MiniMax-M2.5, but things like Kimi-K2.5 will require significant quantization to fit and model performance will really suffer. I'm really wanting to…

Tell me about it. I checked the page thinking whether I should go for 256 GB or 512 GB RAM model. 128 GB maximum. Sigh.

I suspect that they're going to go to a "Ultra every third gen" so we will see a M6 Ultra.
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