Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro

The Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro is Apple's 14-inch laptop, built around a tandem OLED PROLED XDR display with touch input. The panel resolves 3024 x 1986 pixels across 14.2 inches (254 pixels per inch), with a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, up to 1000 nits sustained full-screen and 2000 nits peak for HDR and outdoor work, plus True Tone and ProMotion from 10 to 120 Hz.

The Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro runs the M5 Pro chip with a 15-core CPU — five super cores and ten performance cores —, a 16-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine, with neural accelerators, hardware ray tracing and 307GB/s of memory bandwidth. The media engine accelerates H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAW in hardware, adds AV1 decoding, and encodes and decodes ProRes. This configuration pairs 24 GB of unified memory with a 1 TB SSD.

Connectivity adds three Thunderbolt 5 ports at up to 120Gb/s, HDMI, an SDXC slot, MagSafe 3 and a 3.5-millimetre headphone jack, along with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6. The machine drives up to three external displays and ships with imaging reference modes: Photography (P3-D65), Photography (Adobe RGB-D65), HDR Photography, Digital Cinema (P3-DCI and P3-D65) and DICOM at 350 and 600 nits.

On photo and video jobs, the Apple MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro weighs 1.38 kg at 1.5 centimetres thick, so it travels to set easily. Its 72.6 Wh battery is rated for up to 22 hours of video playback and the bundled adapter is 70 W, with fast charging from 96 W. It handles tethering and culling on location, HDR review with dependable colour, ProRes editing and card offloads through the SDXC reader. Reference price is 2,899 dollars.