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Apple (AAPL) continued its March product rollout on Tuesday with the launch of its latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, along with more powerful M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.
Apple’s best-selling MacBook Air now starts at $1,099, a $100 increase over last year’s model, and comes with the company’s M5 processor and 512GB more storage instead of 256GB.
In addition to Air, Apple also announced M5 Pro and M5 Max processors. The company says the chips use what Apple calls Fusion Architecture, which combines two dies into a single processor. Both the M5 Pro and M5 Max can be equipped with 18-core CPUs, including 6 “super cores” and 12 new “performance cores”.
Both processors are installed in Apple’s new MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch models. Apple is leveraging the laptops’ AI capabilities and says the MacBook Pro with the M5 Pro chip delivers up to 6.9x faster LLM instant processing than the M1 Pro, while the MacBook Pro with M5 Max offers 8x faster AI image generation compared to the MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
As with the Air, Apple is increasing the MacBook Pro’s base storage from 512GB in the M4 Pro to 1TB for the M5 Pro. The M5 Max model now has 2TB compared to the M4 Max’s 1TB.
Professionals will cost you dearly. The base MacBook Pro 14-inch with the standard M5 chip starts at $1,699, up from $1,599 last year.
When you upgrade to the M5 Pro, you’ll pay $2,199. Meanwhile, the M5 Max version starts at $3,599.
Go for a full-featured MacBook Pro 16-inch and you’ll pay $7,349.
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