There are some slight price increases. For example, both the M5 Pro and M5 Max Macs cost roughly $200 more than their predecessors, while the M5 MacBook Air now starts at $1,099 rather than $999. That cost increase is balanced by the fact that you do get twice the storage as before in the basic models.
Apple forges forward with M5 chips
The M5 Pro and M5 Max are engineered for AI and built using the new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture. The chip design combines two dies into a single system on a chip, promising tremendous performance boosts. M5 Pro and M5 Max feature a new up-to-18-core CPU with 6 super cores, and 12 all-new performance cores, optimized for power-efficient, multithreaded pro workloads — altogether delivering up to 30% faster performance.
The chip designs are remarkable in and of themselves, combining a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified memory controller, Neural Engine, and Thunderbolt 5 capabilities.
