There’s a reason you should be equal parts concerned and excited about next year’s MacBooks, judging by the single new 14-inch MacBook Pro (M5) of 2025 . Apple’s latest M5 chip launched by itself without any more powerful Pro or Max brethren to lean on. The reason why the M5 is Apple’s lone soldier is becoming more obvious the more we dig into the new MacBook design. The M5 could be so powerful that the current Mac design isn’t built to handle it. That could prove an even bigger issue for Apple’s even thinner and lighter laptops.

We use Cinebench 2024 tests to simulate how well a system’s CPU performs in 3D tasks. This is measured in a single-core score—essentially how well the processor executes commands one at a time—versus multi-core, or how fast a CPU can perform with multiple simul

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