Apple is refreshing its 14-inch MacBook Pro with a new processor. Announced this morning via press release, the entry-level MacBook Pro now features an M5 chip, faster storage, and a claimed 24 hours of battery life. The rest of the design remains the same, and the price still starts at $1,599 for a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and a 512GB SSD. Preorders are available now, with availability expected October 22nd.

Apple claims the M5 chip is 3.5x faster at AI tasks than the M4, thanks to a next-gen 10-core GPU with “a Neural Accelerator in each core.” The new GPU also means 1.6x faster graphics performance and up to 1.6x higher frame rates in games over the M4 MacBook Pro. Multithreaded performance is also increased by 20 percent, and the M5 chip in the 14-inch Pro also has

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