The chips are engineered around Apple's new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC).

Apple just kicked off pre-orders for the new M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/M5 Max MacBook Pro, and Best Buy already has a few offers on these notebooks. You can get a $50 Best Buy gift card when pre-ordering the MacBook Air and a $100 gift card when pre-ordering the MacBook Pro.

The low-end, low-cost MacBook Neo is the entry-level Mac. The refreshed M5 MacBook Air is the “everyman” laptop for work tasks like light photo or video editing. The M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro are the beasts—the expensive,

M5 MacBook Pro arrives with CPU and GPU gains but unchanged screen and chassis, as discounted M4 and M3 models remain available.

With the debut of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, Apple tweaked the available configurations for the standard M5 MacBook Pro. The 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro used to start with 512GB of storage,

Apple’s Mac Studio could get its biggest upgrade yet in 2026 with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, more RAM, and a redesigned silicon architecture.

Macworld reports that March will bring major Apple product releases including M5 chip updates for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac mini, plus a low-cost MacBook under $1,000.