This is the very last MacBook Pro of

this generation. It's the M5 Pro MacBook

Pro that I've been using for almost two

entire months now. And the reason why

this is the last of its generation is

because the next one, the M6 MacBook

Pro, is said to come with an entirely

new design and a ton of hardware

changes, which makes this both the best

and the worst MacBook Pro to buy right

now. So, the question is, should you get

an M5 Pro MacBook Pro now or should you

wait for the redesign? Well, after

spending 2 months with it,

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Okay, so because this is the last of its

kind, I kind of want to give you my

thoughts on not just this M5 Pro MacBook

Pro, but also this entire generation as

a whole. Because you see, unlike pretty

much any other laptop manufacturer on

the market that updates their laptop

design every single year, Apple usually

updates theirs every 4 to 5 years. For

example, in 2012, we got this guy, the

Retina MacBook Pro, which was an

absolutely incredible piece of hardware

back at a time with the world's first

Retina display, full solid-state

storage, all in a very thin design by

2012 standards. Four years later, and

Apple gave us this 2016 generation, a

generation that was plagued by issues.

It had this insanely thin butterfly

keyboard that kept on breaking. It also

removed the function row of keys in

favor for this controversial touch bar,

and it also removed all the ports in

favor for USB-C, another disliked move.

But, the biggest issue with this

generation was the fact that it was

plagued by thermal and reliability

issues. Some of you may even remember

the videos I did back in the day about

how my 2018 MacBook Pro kept on crashing

and rebooting multiple times per day.

Well, 5 years after that version, Apple

gave us this generation, the 2021

MacBook Pro, the generation that I call

the redeemer, as it actually fixed the

issues that the 2016 generation had.

Although, it also introduced a few of

its own problems. For example, while it

did fix the awful butterfly keyboard and

also the port situation by adding back

MagSafe, HDMI, and the SD card slot,

this generation was also significantly

heavier and thicker than the last one.

So, that did feel like a step backwards.

On top of that, it also added the super

inconvenient notch, which I think is by

far the worst part of this generation.

As for people like me who use a ton of

third-party apps and tools in the menu

bar, most of those were now completely

blocked by the notch, and hence those

apps were actually rendered unusable.

So, to fix Apple's poor UX, I had to

download another third-party app like

Bartender or Barbie in order to fix that

notch situation. Something that honestly

Apple should have addressed themselves

in the first place, which they never

actually did. On the upside though, this

generation did make some truly big

innovations. So, it wasn't just about

fixing existing issues. It introduced a

Liquid Retina XDR display, a superb

mini-LED panel that was the brightest

panel at the time and still is at 1,000

nits sustained and 1,600 nits max in

HDR. It looks incredible even today, and

was also Apple's first high refresh rate

display on a MacBook. Plus, let's not

forget the biggest innovation of this

generation, Apple silicon, which

although it was introduced with the very

last iteration of the previous

generation, this generation was the one

that truly embraced it with the

introduction of Pro and Max chips

alongside the chassis that was designed

with proper cooling and Apple silicon

first. And this transition massively

transformed the MacBook Pro to a machine

that not only runs as good as the top

Windows competitors, but in a lot of

cases, it even defeats them in both raw

performance and battery life. Also, this

generation was the only generation that

made these mid-cycle improvements such

as the new space black color that we got

with the M3 model and the nano-texture

display that Apple introduced with the

M4 model, as well as Thunderbolt 5

support at triple the data throughput

compared to Thunderbolt 4. These used to

be upgrades that Apple used to keep to a

new generation before, which brings me

to this guy, the M5 Pro MacBook Pro, the

culmination of this generation. And I

got to say, this is by far not just the

best MacBook, but the best computer I've

ever used in my life, period. As you may

know, I bought a 14-in M1 Max MacBook

Pro when it came out back in 2021.

Then in 2023, I fully switched to this

M3 MacBook Air with 24 GB of RAM as I

was traveling quite often and I wanted

something more portable and with a

better battery life. And last year, I

bought an M4 Pro Mac mini, that's the

unbinned version with 64 GB of RAM as my

way more powerful home workstation. So,

those are the devices that I'm

personally coming from. And this M5 Pro

MacBook Pro, that's also unbinned and

with 64 GB of RAM as well as 4 TB of

storage,

smoked them all. Long story short, no

matter what I did on this MacBook Pro,

whether it was Photoshop or Lightroom or

coding via cloud code, it was just a

breeze. It could handle anything and

everything. And of course, having that

super smooth 120 Hz panel did make

everything feel even smoother than it

was. And unlike my MacBook Air, which

often throttles its performance and runs

into some heavy RAM management issues,

my workflow mostly needs about 30 GB of

RAM or up to 40.

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>> Well, the M5 Pro with that has 64 is

more than good enough for that. Like, I

was even able to run large local models

like 1332B,

12.5, the 72 billion parameter model,

and Gemma 3 27B fully on device and

paired with my open claw and Hermez

agent with zero issues whatsoever. And

of course, unlike my M4 Pro Mac mini,

this one is fully portable. Now, if

you're looking for some raw performance

numbers in Cinebench 2026 in the

single-core test, the M5 Pro MacBook Pro

was 15% faster than my M4 Pro Mac mini,

and 30% faster than my MacBook Air, and

only 3% slower than a 16-in M5 Max

MacBook Pro. Because, yes, the CPU

between this and the M5 Max MacBook Pro

is actually the same, only the GPU

difference. When testing out the

multi-core performance, the M5 Pro was

6.8% slower than the M5 Max 16-in likely

due to thermal constraints of this 14-in

body. But, when compared to my M4 Pro

Mac mini at home, it was 37% faster,

which is very significant. And compared

to my M3 MacBook Air, it was 295%

faster. In fact, the M5 Pro is so fast

that in Cinebench 2024, it outperformed

every single Mac that we tested, [music]

including the M5 Max. Yeah, I'm not

really sure how that happened, because

in Blender using the CPU, it was 8.7%

slower than the M5 Max, and even 13.7%

faster than the M4 Max. 44% faster than

my M4 Pro Mac mini, and 312% faster than

my M3 MacBook Air. And the GPU is

equally as impressive. You see, despite

having half the GPU cores compared to

the M5 Max, it was only 43% slower.

[music]

Compared to the M4 Max, it was just 22%

slower, which is very [music]

impressive. Compared to my M4 Pro Mac

mini,

it is 48% faster, which is a major jump.

And compared to my M3 MacBook Air,

328% faster. And when rendering this

classroom scene in Blender, the M5 Pro

was 31.8% slower than the M5 Max. Not a

big difference considering that we've

got double the GPU cores on the M5 Max,

but it was 122% faster

>> [music]

>> than the M4 Max, which is insane. And

compared to my M4 Pro Mac mini, it was

also 41% faster. And compared to my Air,

454% faster. So, just night and day

here. But I guess what really surprised

me the most on this MacBook Pro is its

storage speed. Because I managed to get

about 12 GB per second read and write on

this, literally double of the M4 Max

MacBook Pro, which combined with the 64

GB of RAM on this machine,

yeah, just made anything that I did on

it just fly. And in case you're curious

about the AI performance, like I said,

it's really good. Like for running local

AI models, it's actually very

impressive. I also ran some AI

benchmarks, the Geekbench AI for

example, and here the quantized

performance was 10% faster than my M4

Pro Mac mini and 72% faster than my M3

MacBook Air. I also gave it one of my

scripts to summarize using Llama 3.18B,

and while it was slower than the M5 Max

by 48%, it was only 14% slower than the

M4 Max.

Then 14.8% faster than my M4 Pro Mac

mini and a whopping 220% faster than my

M3 MacBook Air. Still, if you are heavy

into AI, I would say the M5 Max is still

the better option due to having a much

higher memory bandwidth, but for most

other CPU tasks, the M5 Pro is just as

capable. And GPU-wise, it's actually not

very far off from an M4 Max MacBook Pro,

which is just crazy. Plus, with the M5

Pro this year, we also get true triple

monitor support, something that before

was restricted to the Max chips only.

Really nice. Although, I did have one

issue that I should probably mention.

This weird GPU issue, I think, where the

display would go all rainbowy and would

require a reboot. This happened a few

times and

yeah, I'm not really sure what caused

it. So, having said all of this, should

you buy the M5 Pro MacBook Pro or should

you skip it? Well, if you need a MacBook

Pro right now, it's a no-brainer. Just

get it. You're going to be extremely

happy with it because you're getting an

almost M4 Max level performance,

sometimes even better, for significantly

less. And if you do get it, I also

highly suggest going for the nano

texture option. I've used this outside

quite a lot and on trains when commuting

and it's just a joy to work from. The

screen is also insanely bright at 1,000

nits and the battery life is also

incredible. Although, if you're like me

and you use local AI models a lot and

the Arc browser, which is very power

hungry, you're not going to get more

than 5 or so hours. But, even then, I

think it's quite good considering just

how powerful this thing is. Now, despite

all of this, despite how perfect this

MacBook Pro is, I think, unless you need

one right now, you should wait for the

new M6 version because that one is said

to be a full redesign. It's also rumored

to come with an OLED display instead of

this mini LED panel that does have some

blooming. It's also said to feature

touch support for the first time in a

MacBook. Also, 5G, something that I've

been waiting for in a MacBook forever as

I just love how versatile my M5 cellular

iPad Pro is. And of course, that M6

version is also said to be even more

powerful than this one. Although, it is

also said to be more expensive. So, do

you keep that in mind if you do decide

to wait. As for me, well, this was just

a review unit from Apple. Shout out to

Apple for loaning this to me. I'll

definitely be waiting for the M6

version, aka the MacBook Ultra, before

upgrading. But, until then, I guess my

M3 MacBook Air and my M4 Pro Mac Mini at

home will still get [music] the job

done. But, let me know, what do you guys

think about this M5 Pro MacBook Pro?

Will you be upgrading or are you also

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