The MacBook Pro is Apple’s flagship laptop, and it spans a range of prices and performance that covers all levels of professionals. At its entry point is the new MacBook Pro 14-inch model, which features the brand-new M5 chip. Higher-performance versions of the 14-inch model and the larger 16-inch model use either the M4 Pro or M4 Max chips, which, despite the M4 designation, are still some of the fastest on the market.
Apple has taken to staggering the release of its new silicon chips, releasing the standard M-series model first, followed by the Pro and Max versions and then, often a year later, the Ultra version. In simple terms, the M5 is faster than the M4, and the M4 Pro is faster than the M3 Pro, but it may take a few generations for a standard or Pro to be faster than a Max. For example, an M2 Max is still faster than an M4 chip in most cases.
