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Take the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, for example, which has been one of my favorite alternatives to the MacBook Air through all of 2025. It had been at competitive prices with the M4 MacBook Air all ...

Apple unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max-powered MacBook Pros in early March 2026. They arrived a few months later than usual, as the company typically unveils new MacBooks towards the end of the year.

With its powerful M5 chip, the latest iteration of the world’s most popular laptop keeps everything that made the MacBook Air compelling in the first place, while meaningfully boosting performance ...

In context: Apple Silicon chips have long excelled at AI workloads, synthetic benchmarks, creative tasks, and per-watt efficiency, but still lag behind dedicated graphics cards in gaming performance.

For years, Macs have had one glaring weakness: gaming. But with the new M5 MacBook Pro, Apple might finally be getting close to fixing that. Or at least brute-forcing its way around it. Recent testing ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The new high-end M5 chip delivers improvements, none more noticeable than the huge SSD read/write speed boost.

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It's been a busy early March for Apple, which has launched a bunch of new products as part of its early 2026 launch cycle. The new products chiefly center around Apple's popular notebook lineup that ...