Apple Reportedly Eyeing Late 2025 Launch of M5 MacBook Pro Series, M5 MacBook Air Tipped for 2026

[T0@st]

Mark Gurman—Bloomberg's resident soothsayer of Apple inside track info—has disclosed predictive outlooks for next-generation M5 chip-based MacBooks. Early last month, we experienced the launch of the Northern Californian company's M4 MacBook Air series—starting at $999; also available in a refreshing metallic blue finish. The latest iteration of Apple's signature "extra slim" notebook family arrived with decent performance figures. As per usual, press and community attention has turned to a potential successor. Gurman's (March 30) Power On newsletter posited that engineers are already working on M5-powered super slim sequels—he believes that these offerings will arrive early next year, potentially reusing the current generation's 15-inch and 13-inch fanless chassis designs.

In a mid-February predictive report, Gurman theorized that Apple was planning a major overhaul of the MacBook Pro design. A radical reimagining of the long-running notebook series—that reportedly utilizes M6 chipsets and OLED panels—is a distant prospect; perhaps later on in 2026. The Cupertino-headquartered megacorp is expected to stick with its traditional release cadence, so 2025's "M5" refresh of MacBook Pro models could trickle out by October. Insiders believe that Apple will reuse existing MacBook Pro shells—the last major redesign occurred back in 2021. According to early February reportage, mass production of the much-rumored M5 chip started at some point earlier in the year. Industry moles posit that a 3 nm (N3P) node process was on the order books, chez TSMC foundries.



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[bonehead123]

Soooo, to summarize (without all the speculative physco-babble):

The fruity bois are workin overtime again, so they can continue to milk their cash cow(s) that are lappies, and by extension, tablets, and then phones later on ......

 

[cvaldes]

Apple's gross margins are higher for their phones. Even gross revenue, iPhones are about 50% of total company revenue. Services is another 30%. The rest is iPad, Wearables, Macs, Apple TV, and a few miscellaneous things.

TechPowerUp does not cover the smartphone industry but anyone who follows technology knows that all consumer technology innovation in the past ten years actually happens on smartphone first. Personal computing not the place to look for new innovation in 2025.

Steve Jobs absolutely nailed it when he introduced the iPhone as "the computer for the rest of us."

 

[NoLoihi]

but anyone who follows technology knows that all consumer technology innovation in the past ten years actually happens on smartphone first.

Eh, desktop OS development indeed feels like it has become stuck over the past decade or so, yet not all change and novelties are indeed worthwhile innovations.

Steve Jobs absolutely nailed it when he introduced the iPhone as "the computer for the rest of us."

Oh, I had never realized the “___ for the rest of us”phrasing had been linked to Apple! I’m not wholeheartedly sure, but I might have used it myself without that context in mind.

 

[cvaldes]

Steve understood.

99.99% of people online -- including the people here at TPU -- don't. That's why Steve is considered a visionary and most people aren't. Even that OpenAI poseur Sam Altman isn't a visionary. Sam is a talentless hack.

Bill Gates was a business visionary who fell victim to myopia very early due to his excessive hubris, a common illness amongst high tech CEOs. Worse Gates let Nadella take over the CEO throne. Nadella completely abandoned the smartphone space and has ultimately doomed Microsoft into being the world's "IT department" rather than a true player.

Today Microsoft has basically zero presence in the most important technology space in the 21st century: smartphones. People *LOVE* using their smartphones, far more than they like using their computers. Microsoft placed a bet and lost. Big time. Now they are sitting at the poker table with a stack of chips that should be 50-100 times larger and the guys betting have no freakin' idea what they are doing.

 

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Gurman theorized that Apple was planning a major overhaul of the MacBook Pro design. A radical reimagining of the long-running notebook series—that reportedly utilizes M6 chipsets and OLED panels

If the future OLED panels on 2026 laptops won't be InkJet printed OLED, then it's a no sense to watch at such over expensive junk machines ...
M6 may also get gaa-fet which is super cool, however a laptop with a low quality and low endurance screen ruins any other cool bonuses.