{"id":242434,"date":"2026-03-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/macbook-pro-m5-and-m5-pro-tested-review\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:05:39","slug":"macbook-pro-m5-and-m5-pro-tested-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/macbook-pro-m5-and-m5-pro-tested-review\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Pro M5 and M5 Pro: Tested review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/reviews\/macbook-pro-m5\">MacBook Pro M5 and M5 Pro: Tested review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/reviews\/macbook-pro-m5\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/reviews\/macbook-pro-m5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-27 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmgzgcumz00dl26qo2ftb360r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The MacBook Pro M5 is finally the same amazing workhorse beast it ever was, delivering both a superior MacBook experience in its display and ports, with the option for a serious speed boost in the larger model. Yes, the perennial best laptop contender has been fully updated now that Apple\u2019s rolled out a 16-inch model and its new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, offering both the larger screen size we love for multitasking and brawnier Apple Silicon chips you may or may not need. I\u2019ve spent weeks testing both the 14- and 16-inch models and found there\u2019s nothing they can\u2019t do fantastically and speedily, whether I\u2019m playing around with video editing and taking crystal-clear FaceTime calls or relaxing with some of the best movies of the decade.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmgzgd7hk00093b6nt5syswqu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            So, while this laptop might not look a whole lot different from the MacBook Pro M4, it at least packs the speed upgrades you want if you\u2019re shopping for a new MacBook Pro. Fortunately, I\u2019ve been covering these things for more than a decade and am more than ready to explain what\u2019s going on here \u2014 and whether these new MacBooks are for you.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Phenomenal battery life and a nice speed boost make the MacBook Pro M5 a great laptop for power users.<\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/apple-14-inch-macbook-pro-m5-review-cnnu-credit-henry-t-casey-01.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"The MacBook Pro M5 is showing a night scene from the game Cyberpunk 2077, featuring a car with glowing taillights. \" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"3068\" width=\"5455\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmgzgd7hk000c3b6nittb2oss@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 felt phenomenally fast in my early testing, slicing through my suite of productivity apps such as Drafts, Todoist and the Brave web browser like a glowing lightsaber through butter. This is a MacBook Pro, though, so I don\u2019t want to spend too much time praising it for handling basic software well. Instead, let\u2019s look at how it performed on benchmarks and other testing. On the Geekbench 6 test, it posted the best single-core scores we\u2019ve ever seen,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/reviews\/macbook-pro-m5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Pro M5 and M5 Pro: Tested review https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/cnn-underscored\/reviews\/macbook-pro-m5 Publish Date: 2026-03-27 03:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/apple-14-inch-macbook-pro-m5-review-cnnu-credit-henry-t-casey-10.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-242434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242436,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242434\/revisions\/242436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}