MacBook Pro 14 M5

I have played with both mlx-lm and llama.cpp after I bought a 24GB M5 MacBook Pro last year. [...]

I'm on a 48 GB M5 Macbook Pro. I use 4-bit quants with a context window of 16-32k. I tried Qwen 3.6 27B, but I can only get around 10 tokens per second, but it's painfully slow, and it often fails during writefile tool calls, even with Qwen Code.

I spent the better part of the weekend trying to figure out why text was blurry on when using external displays on our new M5 Macbook Pros. Turns out unless you run macOS at a very low UI scale (making everyting look huge on a 4k display) it will refuse to render in high DPI mode - making text look dreadfully blurry. [...]

I have a 24GB M5 macbook pro. In ComfyUI using default z-image workflow, generating a single image just took me 399 seconds, during which the computer froze and my airpods lost audio. On replicate.com a single image takes 1.5s at a price of 1000 images per $1. [...]

[...] My M5 MacBook Pro, while amazing, is basically relegated to being a thin client with amazing battery life that exclusively SSH's into my desktop PC for work. I could spawn a Linux VM / use Docker/Podman locally, but dealing with allocating memory, hard drive space and whatever other limitations non-native containerisation incurs isn't worth the squeeze. [...]

I have an M5 MacBook Pro and I also have a separate GPU setup for running models. [...]

I was overly sleepy due to prescribed sleeping pills when I woke up at 6am to preorder my M5 MacBook Pro. [...]

[...] Apple hasn’t raised RAM upgrade prices [1] (although to be fair their RAM upgrades were hugely inflated before the crunch) and their high memory bandwidth means they do inference faster than most consumer GPUs. [...] I’m thinking about upgrading to an M5 MacBook Pro with much more RAM, but I think the capabilities of cloud-hosted models will always run ahead of local models and it might never be that useful to do local inference. [...] to work on different problems in parallel) but locally you only have a fixed amount of memory bandwidth so running multiple model instances in parallel is slower. [...]

[...] Looking at the differences between the M5 Macbook Pro vs E14 Gen 7 I still don't quite feel that the scoring is fair. It is true that the battery is more difficult to replace and the memory/storage are soldered in the Mac. [...] The battery replacement also does not seem terribly difficult on the Mac; most of the repair guide is about Apple's neurotic use of torque drivers and adhesive activators. If you are happy with the build quality and durability of modern Thinkpads, these steps are entirely unnecessary. I suspect a substantial factor in the scoring is Apple's fasteners - the drivers for which, of course, are now in every electronics repair kit in the world, not to mention typically included for free with replacement parts on Amazon. Is this really worth a substantial hit to Apple's scores?

[...] The M5 MacBook Pro is basically the same as a MacBook Air but with a fan to get that extra 10% performance boost, and better screen and I/O. [...] I think that the M5 base chip could easily operate in a much thinner/lighter chassis without the throttling of the fanless Air design while maintaining quiet performance. Also, the edge of the MacBook Pro is sharp and uncomfortable compared to other laptops when you are resting palms/arms on the laptop directly.

[...] In December Best Buy had a $1999 configuration of the M5 MacBook Pro on sale for $1749 and I scooped one up. [...] I suspect I could sell the computer I've been using for 6 months at a profit, which is just bizarre. [...]

From a quick search online, the max brightness of your laptop is 400 nits SDR and 500 HDR. My M5 MacBook Pro is 1000 and 1500 nits. Screen brightness is not something I will compromise on after having a taste of greatness. [...] But I will not settle for something much more expensive and worst in some aspects. [...] I did the calculations and for the Framework 16, it would be cheaper to buy a gaming Asus laptop and throw it out in a couple years to replace it versus buying a framework and upgrading it. [...]

If that's true, it's very unsustainable. Gemma-4 26B-A4B + M5 MacBook Pro + OpenCode isn't Claude Code yet, but it's good enough that if I were forced to use it I would be fine.

Isn't this just because they will be refreshed soon, rumours are around June. I'd imagine Apple stops making the old hardware a few months before a refresh and then just sells the old stock. [...] Last week I got my (customised) M5 MacBook Pro that was ordered during launch week, not really any longer than expected when ordering a new model.

I have an M5 MacBook Pro. I’ll presume I’ll be able to run Asahi on it once I’m ready to switch. It’s not their fault per se, but it’s discouraging.

[...] The first thing I did was going to the Apple Store to buy a latest M5 MacBook Pro with the highest 24G memory and get MLX running. [...]

glad i got the macbook pro 14 m5, 24gb. [...] maybe by then prices will come back down? [...]

[...] I have a brand new M5 MacBook Pro - top end with all the specs and I've tried local models and they're barely functional.

The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet). [...] Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. [...] Tahoe however makes my M1 Air feel sluggish doing the exact same tasks ive been last couple of years. [...]

I can't speak for the person you've asked, but, I have an M5 Macbook Pro and Asahi Linux only recently got support for M3 Macs, and that support is marked WIP on most features: I assume it'll be a couple of years before Asahi is an option for my machine.

I just bought a M5 Macbook Pro 2 weeks ago. Thinking of returning it and getting a M5 Pro with the same configuration but only $200 more. How should I compare M5 vs M5 Pro?