Apple Just Upgraded the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro with Its New M5 Chip

As before, nan 11-inch iPad Pro costs $999 and nan 13-inch iPad Pro starts astatine $1,299. They're compatible pinch nan Apple Pencil Pro, Apple Pencil USB-C, Magic Keyboard, and Smart Folio.

The New MacBook Pro

Interestingly, Apple did not wholly revamp its MacBook Pro lineup pinch nan M5 chip. Instead, there's conscionable 1 caller model: a 14-inch MacBook Pro pinch 4 retention options (512 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, aliases 4 TB) and 3 unified representation options (16, 24, aliases 32 GB). The guidelines type starts astatine $1,599, for illustration before, but if you max retired each of nan upgrades, it tin costs arsenic overmuch arsenic $3,369. We'll apt spot M5 Pro and M5 Max spot options successful 2026 alongside a 16-inch MacBook Pro.

You'll spot akin velocity increases for illustration connected nan iPad Pro M5—3.5x faster AI performance, 1.6x faster graphics complete nan anterior M4-powered MacBook Pro, and 2x faster SSD performance. Otherwise, this is nan aforesaid 14-inch MacBook arsenic before, pinch nan claimed “24-hour” artillery life, mini-LED show pinch nan nano-texture solid option, a six-speaker system, and a 12-MP webcam. There are 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI, an SDXC slot, a headphone jack, and nan MagSafe charging port.

The New Vision Pro

Widely regarded as a miss pinch consumers, Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset is backmost but pinch nary awesome changes to nan hardware. Well, there's a caller headstrap: nan Dual Knit Band. It's included successful nan container and Apple says it's soft and cushioned, allowing for a comfier fit. The headset is now powered by nan M5 chip, which enables faster performance, sharper specifications passim visionOS 26, and amended artillery life. Specifically, Apple says nan M5 renders 10 percent much pixels connected nan micro-OLED displays than before, and nan refresh complaint tin besides jump up to 120 Hz.

Battery life is now 2 and a half hours of wide use, arsenic opposed to conscionable 2 hours connected nan original Vision Pro. That extends to 3 hours pinch video playback.

Unfortunately, nan value remains patient astatine $3,499. It's arriving correct earlier Samsung is expected to unveil its Android XR mixed reality headset, Project Moohan, which will hopefully travel pinch a little value tag.