The new 14- and 16-inch MacBooks will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow, March 4th. However, there are some price hikes to accompany the increased performance and base storage. The 14-inch MacBook Pro now starts at $2,199 (up from $1,999) with the M5 Pro, while the 16-inch MacBook Pro now starts at $2,699 (up from $2,499). If you want to step into the M5 Max versions of those systems, you're looking at $3,599 and $3,899, respectively.
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ezst036 Whatever happened with Apple's push to try to attract new gamers? That plan that copied Valve's failed "port to Linux" strategy with the Steam Machine 1.0 by creating a "port to Metal" strategy? https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/apples-renewed-push-for-mac-gaming-relies-on-its-whole-ecosystem-to-attract-users Reply
thestryker Seems like Apple is probably using LPDDR5X-9600 for these. Typically they've been a bit more conservative on memory speed so it's nice to see. Should the DRAM apocalypse end it'll be interesting to see if the new LPDDR5X packages propagate down or if they're only enabled by the absurd prices. Micron announced 32Gb LPDDR5X which equates to 64GB packages at their largest capacity. This would effectively eliminate the capacity advantage DDR5 has in the client space. Reply
JamesJones44 ezst036 said: Whatever happened with Apple's push to try to attract new gamers? That plan that copied Valve's failed "port to Linux" strategy with the Steam Machine 1.0 by creating a "port to Metal" strategy? https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/apples-renewed-push-for-mac-gaming-relies-on-its-whole-ecosystem-to-attract-users It still exists. Apple is claiming 35% better Ray Tracing performance in games and 40-60% (Max and Pro respectively) uplift in general gaming performance vs M4 Pro/Max variants. They have seemed to double down on LLM training more though as most of there stats are about that for this release it seems. Reply
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