MacBook Pro - Fast runs in the family.
The brilliant Liquid Retina XDR display delivers 1,600 nits peak HDR brightness*2 and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. 4K videos and HDR photos look more true-to-life with deep blacks, bright highlights and vibrant colours.
The MacBook Pro display delivers an unparalleled viewing experience, featuring a nano-texture option that minimises reflections in bright environments without sacrificing clarity. Extreme Dynamic Range (XDR) provides incredible contrast and sustained brightness for HDR content, while ProMotion technology ensures ultra-fluid movement by automatically adjusting refresh rates up to 120Hz. From gaming and scrolling to precisely aligning video footage with fixed refresh rates, the display is engineered for both visual brilliance and professional responsiveness.
Multiple displays. Why limit yourself to one? If a project calls for larger canvases, you can connect up to two displays with M5, up to three with M5 Pro or up to four with M5 Max. Both the immersive Studio Display and the advanced Studio Display XDR pair beautifully with MacBook Pro.
- 1,600 nits peak HDR brightness
- 1,000 nits sustained HDR brightness
- 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
- Down to 1 nit brightness in dark environments
- Up to 1,000 nits SDR brightness outdoors
- 1 billion colours
Our most advanced series of chips ever built for a pro laptop. Each chip in the M5 family delivers phenomenal single- and multi-threaded CPU performance and faster unified memory, giving you the kind of speed you’ve never thought possible. The SSD storage is up to twice as fast as before.*11 And with powerful Neural Accelerators, you can fly through AI tasks at mind‑bending speeds.
Up to 8x faster AI performance than the M1 family*12
The M5 family features a powerful Neural Accelerator in every GPU core, specifically optimised for Apple Intelligence to accelerate LLMs, diffusion models, and on-device training. Coupled with a 16-core Neural Engine, it delivers high-performance AI with incredible energy efficiency. For graphics, the M5 introduces a GPU with enhanced shader cores and third-generation ray tracing for ultra-crisp 3D modelling. Additionally, Dynamic Caching maximises memory optimisation, significantly boosting GPU utilisation for demanding pro apps and gaming.
M5 Chip: brings next-generation speed and powerful on‑device AI to students, business users and aspiring creators.
M5 Pro Chip: M5 Pro delivers even more power for scientists, engineers, software developers and creative pros tackling intensive projects.
M5 Max: Our most advanced chip ever built for a pro laptop. M5 Max is perfect for 3D VFX artists, AI developers and film composers.
Built for AI. From the silicon up.
Designed for efficiency and privacy, Apple silicon integrates hardware and software to run demanding AI workloads natively. From powerful standalone tools like DiffusionBee and LM Studio to AI-driven features in Logic Pro and Adobe Photoshop, the Mac is optimised to handle the world's most advanced AI applications with ease.
Apple Intelligence. Task and you shall receive.
Apple Intelligence helps you write, express yourself and get things done effortlessly. Turn a quick note into a polished announcement. Remove distractions from photos with Clean Up. Create unique images with new ChatGPT styles in Image Playground. And use intelligent actions in the Shortcuts app to create automations, like comparing an audio transcription to typed notes and extracting information from a PDF. Apple Intelligence is AI that works for you.*44
Great powers come with great privacy.
Apple Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your Mac through on‑device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on Apple silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy.
All-day battery life. Think outside the box.
MacBook Pro has the longest battery life ever in a Mac (up to 24 hours) so you can work, create and play all day. All models provide the same performance whether they’re plugged in or not. Spend more time coding, learning, streaming, or thinking about your passion, not a socket for your laptop. And when you need to power up, fast charge gets you to 50% in just 30 minutes. *45
Fresh-faced. Timelessly Mac.
macOS Tahoe introduces the elegant Liquid Glass design, combining a refined aesthetic with powerful tools built for Apple Intelligence. This version prioritises seamless iPhone integration and high-speed productivity through a reimagined Spotlight, which now performs hundreds of direct actions, and automated shortcuts that trigger workflows based on time or specific context. Together, these updates ensure that navigating your Mac is faster, more beautiful, and more intuitive than ever.
Mac + iPhone = Even better together.
Mac and iPhone work seamlessly together through Continuity, allowing you to hand off tasks and share files instantly. Features like Universal Clipboard let you copy and paste across devices, while the Phone app enables you to manage calls directly from your Mac. Additionally, Handoff ensures a fluid workflow by letting you start a task, like an email, on one device and finish it on the other without missing a beat.
Your ambitions. There’s an app for that.
Tens of thousands of apps are optimised for Apple silicon from your go‑to productivity apps to your favourite games and hardest-working pro apps. With MacBook Pro, they all soar.
- Photo editing - Handle large image files, no sweat. Edit and retouch photos in the studio or on location. Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Capture One, Pixelmator Pro, Topaz Photo, DxO PhotoLab 9 and more.
- Coding - Get with the program. Run virtual machines and develop code across the stack. Save time with predictive code completion in Xcode. Xcode, Unity Editor, Create ML, TensorFlow, PyTorch, NAG Fortran Compiler, Docker, IntelliJ IDEA and more.
- STEM - Make Mac your lab partner. Run complex simulations or DNA sequencing or analyse large data sets in any STEM environment. MATLAB, Autodesk AutoCAD, NASA TetrUSS, Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW, OsiriX MD, Shapr3D, SurgicalAR, Vectorworks, Archicad and more.
- Business - Multitask like a boss. Create documents and presentations and collaborate across apps and video conferences and do it all at once. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Slack, Zoom, Keynote, Omni Productivity Suite and more.
- Graphic design - Find your type. Take on illustrations, font creation, visual editing, interactive design and motion graphics with absolute ease. Adobe InDesign, Sketch, Linearity Curve, Adobe Illustrator, Figma and more.
- 3D animation and design - Bring your imagination to life. Build intricate texturing in 3D artwork, create complex animations and render high-resolution scenes. Blender, Maxon Cinema 4D, Maxon Redshift, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance Painter, Houdini and more.
- Music production - Produce the whole album. Compose, record and mix across thousands of tracks with hundreds of plug‑ins in real time. Logic Pro, Avid Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Cubase, Adobe Audition, FL Studio, MainStage and more.
- Video editing - Craft stories worth telling. Fly through 4K and 8K footage and tackle motion graphics and compositing with superfast render times. DaVinci Resolve Studio, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects, Nuke, Autodesk Flame and more.
- Gaming - Play favourites. Enjoy immersive gaming thanks to the exceptional graphics capabilities, gorgeous XDR display and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. Turn on Game Mode for smoother frame rates. Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Control Ultimate Edition, Frostpunk 2, World of Warcraft, Sid Meier’s Civilisation® VII and more.
Make powerful connections.
MacBook Pro packs an array of ports for connecting high-speed peripherals, driving high-resolution displays or directly offloading SDXC cards. Models with the M5 chip feature Thunderbolt 4 and support both Wi‑Fi 6E47 and Bluetooth 5.3. Models with M5 Pro or M5 Max feature Thunderbolt 5, which offers transfer speeds of up to 120Gb/s.*48
With the Apple-designed N1 wireless chip, M5 Pro and M5 Max models support:
- Wi‑Fi *47 and Bluetooth *6
- Thunderbolt 10, HDMI, SDXC, Headphone jack, MagSafe
- Drive external displays. Connect up to two high-resolution external displays with M5, up to three with M5 Pro or up to four with M5 Max.
Security. No compromises.
Security starts with Apple silicon and extends to the macOS architecture. This deep integration of hardware and software along with automatic software updates, helps keep MacBook Pro stable and protected for the long term. The security architecture also powers features such as Touch ID, Find My and advanced defences that protect against viruses and malware.
Touch ID: Unlock your Mac, sign in to apps and make secure payments with your fingertip. The Secure Enclave keeps your fingerprint data safe.
Find My: Locate your misplaced MacBook Pro and remotely lock or erase it if needed.
FileVault: Encrypt and protect your files and data without having to think about it.
Legal:
For a comprehensive look at the performance testing methodologies and legal terms governing these results, please refer to the detailed footnotes located at https://www.apple.com/za/macbook-pro/.
