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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
241 points secure | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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treetalker ◴[31 Oct 25 18:43 UTC] No.45775286[source]▶
> (When I chose the new laptop, Apple’s M4 chips were current. By now, they have released the first devices with M5 chips.)

Does anyone have any feedback on the new M5 models?

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1. Aloisius ◴[31 Oct 25 23:25 UTC] No.45777824[source]▶
I just upgraded from an M1 to an M5 a couple days ago.

It is rather shocking how much faster everything feels given I didn't think my old macbook pro was slow. While I expected xcode builds to be faster (and they are), I was a bit shocked when opening a new firefox tab was instantaneous since I hadn't noticed it wasn't before.

Another thing I didn't expect is that the new speakers have noticeably more bass and can get quite a bit louder.

I didn't get the nano-textured display, because having to adjust the display angle to get colors to render correctly is more annoying than having to do it for glare (I don't work in a high-glare environment).