Apple MacBook Pro 14 inch with M5 Pro review – Pickr
Apple MacBook Pro 14 inch with M5 Pro review – Pickr
https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2026/apple-macbook-pro-14-inch-m5-pro/
Publish Date: 2026-04-23 01:55:00
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Quick review
Apple MacBook Pro 14 inch with M5 Pro – from $3499
The good
Lovely industrial design
Incredible performance
Solid build
Great ports and feature set
Excellent and reliable keyboard and mouse
Nice ProMotion 120Hz screen
Nano texture matte glass is a handy addition (though optional)
With an upgrade in performance the main feature on the M5 Pro MacBook Pro, Apple’s update to its portable workstations delivers another best-in-class machine.
For the longest time, desktops have been the machines we refer to as being the big and powerful models. They’re the ones with big processors and meaty graphics cards, and larger than normal energy requirements in a design you definitely can’t take with you.
Desktops are where the power has been, but that’s not where it is now. No, these days you can take much of that power with you, thanks to portable machines.
Ever since Apple introduced its M-class silicon, we’ve seen generations that basically rolled workstation-grade power into a smaller form-factor, delivering high-end hardware into its laptop range, the MacBook Pro. With every subsequent year, the hardware gets faster and more capable, and buyers have more of that to look forward to.
This year, the range is even faster again, delivering performance like we’ve never seen in a laptop, and making it possible to really do anything anywhere. Is the M5 Pro MacBook Pro this year’s must have machine?
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Design
The latest MacBook Pro may well be the latest, but that doesn’t mean Apple has made any changes to the design.
Much like how this year’s MacBook Air is very much like last year’s MacBook Air, this year’s MacBook Pro is also more or less identical to the last MacBook Pro before it, as well.
Yes, it’s Apple applying the logic “if it ain’t broke”, and you know…
