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14" Apple MacBook Pro: 3024x1964 120Hz, M5 10-Core Chip, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
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Another thing the M5 offers over the M1 Pro/Max is significant efficiency gains. The 8+2 M1 Pro/Max tend to saturate their 2 efficiency cores fairly easily and get into their P-cores , which is bad news for 'real-world idle' efficiency - driving up power consumption and tanking battery life. My M5 Max sips power compared to my 'old' M1 Max.
All that said... M1 Pro/Max are still incredibly capable machines. Did I need to upgrade from my M1 Max? No. Am I glad I did? Absolutely.
In the end, if you aren't feeling significant pressure to upgrade, it might be a good idea to wait for the M6 lineup. Although they're likely going to be quite a bit pricier with the rumored OLED upgrade.
It's a bit different than others who were suggesting "wait for the M6!" to people considering the M5 Pro/Max - considering the M6 Pro/Max likely won't be due for a whole extra year since the M5 Pro/Max literally just dropped this month.
If anything I would wait until M6 releases at the end of the year when they do a chassis-refresh, OLED panel and rumored touchscreen if you want to blow a bunch of money on a new Macbook.
Despite being 4 years and 4 months old, if you extrapolate from Apple's history with Intel macOS support it's getting at least 3 more major releases of macOS updates with the last one likely landing late 2028 and 2-3 years of security updates following that so it lasts 4-5 years easily.
If you want to "maximize trade-in value" then just sell it privately on Facebook Marketplace/Offerup/Craigslist but I think you're only gonna gain $100 more by doing that.
I agree with this; as someone who also has a M1 Pro MacBook, I've been eyeing upgrading to the newest M5 or M5 Pro, but realized that the difference I'm paying is simply not worth it. The M1 Pro is still extremely capable, and unless I'm rendering, video content editing, etc - the seconds I shave off are not worth paying an additional $1-1.5K more.
As mentioned, the actual hardware upgrade is marginal; what's beneficial to me is the slightly better battery life and brighter screen, but I'm also using software that allows me to max out the brightness, manually.
Sidenote, I also have an M4 Mac mini, which I use as my permanently on computer attached to my monitor. Apple syncs files/tabs, etc. extremely well so device switching is seamless. You can easily get one and use it as your main computer, keep your M1 Pro and still be saving a LOT of money.
I have a MacBook Air that is older and runs fine, except it is no longer getting OS upgrades. i use it for browsing the web, reading Slickdeals daily, etc. The disc drive has limited space. But I love the form factor. It is ready to use by opening the cover, you can easily carry it around, it is reasonably fast for general use....even after many years.
At work I use a 16" MacBook Pro M3 Pro and it runs great. For the odd ball software I have been running Parallels with no issues. I love the larger screen and it is very bright. Bring up a spreadsheet and spread it across the screen.
For Christmas I purchased a MacBook Pro M5 1TB with 32 GB of memory. It is easier to carry than my 16" MacBook Pro.
I also have a very old (my first) IPad.
So here are my thoughts.
- I have noticed that the edge on the new MacBook Pro M5 seems a little sharper than my original air and even my MacBook Pro M3 Pro. It seems to be digging into my palms of my hands more making them sore by the end of my computer session. I visually see no difference, by my hands can feel it at the end.
- If you are not doing anything extreme than what you have or even a MacBook Air is nice for portability. Apple is doing really well with the M chips and the machines are well built. Even if you want a faster chip, then you need to still figure out your memory - and it is currently pretty expensive.
- I want to run Adobe on mine and do photo and video editing and I do not think I could splurge for the M5 Pro or Max. It did not dawn on me to get an M4 chip. But in the benchmarking on the web, the M5 performs with Adobe very well for someone not doing it day in and day out for a profession.
- If you are only doing office type work and you are happy with what you have .. keep it ... save you money for the next big leap. Most likely the machines will cost more as the supplies are also costing more. The advice I got from my friend the Apple employee ... is if you are going to spend more money, make sure you get enough memory as it is not upgradeable.
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Reality. That's what I'm 'smoking'.
I'm seeing M1 Max Pro's on ebay selling for $900-$1100, recent sales. Where are you seeing $1500-$1800?
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