The arrival of the means that Apple once again has two laptops with the standard M5 chip inside. Apple first put the plain M5 chip inside a laptop with the .
Both machines occupy the “under $2000” space in Apple’s laptop lineup. Here’s how the two MacBooks with the same chip compare.
While both machines run on the standard M5 chip , there’s a $600 price difference between the two laptops.
The starts at $109
Does Parallels virtualization software work with ? The short answer for now is that the company isn’t sure yet. The official line as of March 5 is that support has not actually been confirmed yet:
allows users to run virtualized operating systems, like compatible versions of Windows, on the Mac. The company behind the app hasn’t confirmed whether or not the software is compatible with MacBook Neo:
At the time of publication, MacBook Neo compatibility with Parallels Desktop has not yet been officially confirmed.
It sounds like Parallels
Apple’s M5 Max delivered some decent performance gains over the M4 Max in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core results, with the most impressive feat for the 18-core CPU configuration being that it beat the top-end M3 Ultra in both tests . Now, it is time to look at the technology giant’s ‘middle of the pack’ SoC, the M5 Pro , and according to the latest single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmarks, it nearly
MacBook Neo is an all-new kind of laptop for , making it worthy of being Apple’s first-ever “Neo” product. The new computer is also Apple’s first product to use three distinct technologies.
Apple has had a strong trackpad game for nearly two decades. The multi-touch trackpad in the original MacBook Air from 2008 was a leap forward. Other laptop trackpads had tracking surfaces for mousing and big buttons for clicking. Apple modernized the trackpad with a single, multi-
Apple launched seven new products announced, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more.
On Monday, Apple started off the week with two product announcements.
The $599 iPhone 17e replaces the iPhone 16e with 2x the storage, faster performance, and the magic of MagSafe. There’s also a new “soft pink” color in addition to black and white options.
The A18 Pro found in the newly announced MacBook Neo is slightly different from the silicon powering the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, as Apple has resorted to chip-binning, giving a 5-core GPU to the portable Mac , while its older-generation flagship smartphones are treated to a 6-core GPU. Fortunately, a new benchmark leak shows there’s practically no difference between the two SoCs.
The $599 portable Mac with the unique identifier Mac17,
Apple’s M5 Max has appeared in multiple Geekbench 6 results, offering a clearer early look at performance than a single listing. The three CPU entries shown for the 18-core chip report single-core scores of 4,268, 4,288, and 4,297, while multi-core scores range from 29,043
While the new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros won’t be available until March 11, the first M5 Max benchmark has already appeared on Geekbench. Here are the results.
As we mentioned a few days ago when an early benchmark purporting to measure the performance of the yet-to-be-released M4 iPad Air surfaced, Geekbench results for unreleased products should always be taken with a grain of salt .
That said, the reported for an 18-core M5 Max chip
The new Fusion Architecture allows Apple to cram in more CPU cores in the M5 Max , with its top-end configuration flaunting six super and 12 performance cores to deliver incredible multi-core performance. However, in the latest single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmark leak, the SoC secures an almost negligible improvement over the M4 Max . While this is disappointing to learn, there is a silver lining, as the M5 Max beats the workstation-class M3 Ultra in the same comparison, making
The record-breaking Q1 2026 quarter saw Apple bring in a mammoth $143.756 billion, but this impressive figure was also accompanied by a statement made by CEO Tim Cook, hinting at which silicon would be found in the newly announced MacBook Neo . The A18 Pro found in the latter is still an insanely powerful chip, but the A19 Pro is on another level, and had it not been for the supply situation, we’d be getting a