The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 chip is Apple’s entrenched, well-worn, and still elegant stepping stone into 2026. In a year’s time, we’ll hopefully see whole new varieties of MacBooks hit the scene. But I don’t much enjoy pretending to exist in some vague future—not when we don’t know how our current economic reality will shape tomorrow’s gadget economy . Existing in the now, with the singular new MacBook Pro in tow sporting Apple’s latest silicon, you can feel safe knowing it’s still a great laptop. But if you were hoping for something—anything—truly novel, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5’s best, new qualities are subtle, almost to the point they disappear into the background.

MacBook Pro 14 (M5)

Apple's MacBook Pro is still as good as it ever was, but we could use a true redesign

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