Apple has a very wide variety of laptops to choose from -- it starts with the 13-inch MacBook Air with a 15-inch variant; and then the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, the former is what we currently been using for about a month now and it comes with the latest Apple M5 chip. Our review unit is the base model Space Black with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage. Design and Construction There used to be a lot of differences between the Air and the Pro but that gap has been slowly closing since the transition to the M1 chip. There's iMovie which is a pretty decent video editor, GarageBand for music editing, and Preview for viewing PDF files (and attaching digital signatures too!). Perhaps in some rare instances that I have to install a device or software that's only available or compatible on Windows but that comes with the territory since we're reviewing and tinkering with a lot of gadgets in our work. You will see in the chart below that it ranks at the top among previous silicon chips in single core performance: Same goes with multi-core performance, according to GeekBench 6.5: I'm not really a big gamer on a laptop and the last serious game I played was Diablo IV on my desktop PC about a year ago. Read more in our articles including "Apple 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 Review" and "Samsung announces flagship Exynos 9 Series 9810 chip".
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Jul 12, 2026Apple has a very wide variety of laptops to choose from -- it starts with the 13-inch MacBook Air with a 15-inch variant; and then the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, the former is what we currently been using for about a month now and it comes with the latest Apple M5 chip. Our review unit is the base model Space Black with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage.
Design and Construction There used to be a lot of differences between the Air and the Pro but that gap has been slowly closing since the transition to the M1 chip. There's iMovie which is a pretty decent video editor, GarageBand for music editing, and Preview for viewing PDF files (and attaching digital signatures too!). Perhaps in some rare instances that I have to install a device or software that's only available or compatible on Windows but that comes with the territory since we're reviewing and tinkering with a lot of gadgets in our work.
Our coverage of M5 chip review includes: "Apple 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 Review"; "Samsung announces flagship Exynos 9 Series 9810 chip"; "Samsung Galaxy A27 5G Review". Each article provides unique insights and information.