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Apple Unveils MacBook Pro With PROLED XDR Display, Touch, and M5 Pro Chips
“it’s worth considering if you don’t want to shell out nearly $3,000”
“We’re in a time of great uncertainty when it comes to buying a computer.”
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MacBook Pro features PROLED XDR display with a touchscreen interface. Available in 14- and 16-inch models, powered by the M6 for strong performance.
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New MacBook Pro Debuts
Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR display and Touch, and the company positioned the tandem OLED technology as delivering “incomparable image quality.” Apple said the PROLED XDR MacBook Pro comes in 14- and 16-inch models and targets up to 2,000 nits of HDR and SDR peak brightness, a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and a 120 Hz variable refresh rate. Apple also said the new MacBook Pro brings Dynamic Island to the Mac as the new home for Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI, and Apple tied the launch to its M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.
The PROLED XDR panel is described as the first Apple laptop with a touchscreen and it “reaches a peak brightness of 2,000 nits, both in HDR and SDR content.” Notebookcheck said the new MacBook Pro 14 with OLED is an “excellent multimedia laptop,” and it called the tandem OLED display “undoubtedly the new tandem OLED display.”
Touch, Battery, and Power
Apple said the MacBook Pro’s PROLED XDR display uses ProMotion adaptive refresh rates from as low as 10 Hz up to 120 Hz, and Apple described the display engine as controlling each pixel “in under a millisecond.” The touchscreen “changes the relationship in how you use this Mac,” and the description includes multitouch gestures like pinch to zoom and slide fingers to change elements in an image. Notebookcheck said Apple “still caps maximum power draw at 96 watts,” and it added that the battery can “drain around 15% per hour” with the CPU at full load and high brightness in High Performance mode.
Ars Technica framed the purchase decision as complicated by uncertainty in computer buying, and it quoted the question: “What will computing even look like in a few years, and what does that mean for the computer I should buy today?” Tom's Guide said the MacBook Pro 14-inch M6 “won’t grab headlines like the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR,” and it described the PROLED models as “nearly $3,000.”
Pricing, Availability, and AI
Apple said customers can pre-order the new MacBook Pro starting today, October 28, and Apple said it will be available from Friday, November 6. The largest 16-inch version was tested and it reported the weight as 1.82 kg (317 grams less than the previous generation). Notebookcheck said the MacBook Pro 14 with the OLED panel starts at $2,899 with the basic M5 Pro, 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD storage, and it said a test unit with 64 GB RAM and 4 TB SSD storage is priced at $5,599.
Ars Technica framed the purchase decision as complicated by uncertainty in computer buying, and it quoted the question: “What will computing even look like in a few years, and what does that mean for the computer I should buy today?” Apple said macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI completes the MacBook Pro experience, and Apple’s hardware lead Johny Srouji called the PROLED XDR display “the best laptop screen in the world.”